3249.0 From Incarcerated to Community Life: Improving Comprehensive Care

Monday, October 29, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Presenters cover several aspects of comprehensive health care of prisoners preceding and following their releases and re-entry. Particular issues include mental health, substance abuse, behavioral adjustment, and data use for improving outcomes.
Session Objectives: Define health needs addressed in re-entry to the community from incarceration. Explain residential treatment for substance abuse after release from NYC Jail System. Discuss management of former prisoners in a NYC comprehensive care clinic. Describe a health care data system for tracking and improving health outcomes of incarcerated persons.
Organizer:
Barbara Guest, MSW, MPH
Moderator:
Barbara Guest, MSW, MPH

12:30pm
Health outcomes for HIV-positive inmates released from NYC jails
Paul Teixeira, DrPH, MA and Alison O. Jordan, LCSW
     
  
12:50pm
An exploration of the needs of community-based reentry clinics: Data from the Transitions Clinic Network
Shira Shavit, MD, Emily Wang, MD, MAS and Clemens Hong, MD/MPH
     
1:10pm
Residential substance abuse treatment in the New York City jail system
Daniel Selling, PsyD, David Lee, MPH and Homer D. Venters, MD MS
     
1:30pm
Addressing the impact of working with formerly Incarcerated people on the multi-disciplinary staff at the Center for Comprehensive Care in New York City
Kathy Boudin, EdD, Christine Nollen, MPA MPH, Emily Gertz, MPH, Mary Johnson, MSW and Victoria Sharp, MD
     

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Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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