This curriculum is meant to inform implementation of a new jail linkage program and to assist organizations in expanding their current jail work. Target audiences include AIDS service organizations, community-based organizations, Ryan White HIV/ AIDS Program grantees and providers, and local health departments.
The guide offers programmatic steps and planning questions as well as useful templates to get started on jail linkage work.
This guide is intended for organizations, agencies, and individuals considering strengthening connections between community and jail health care systems to improve continuity of care for recently incarcerated HIV-positive individuals. This guide is meant to provide approaches to implement new jail linkage programs or to help organizations and agencies plan how they can expand their current jail work. The target audience includes health care institutions, agencies, individual clinicians, and community partners with an interest and need to work with incarcerated populations, particularly HIV-positive jail inmates and the recently released.
In this session, listeners will gain an overview of jails and public health opportunities within correctional settings, and learn about key findings from the SPNS Enhancing Jail Linkages initiative. Hear from Barry Zack, CEO of Corrections and Health for The Bridging Group and Anne Spaulding, Emory University assistant professor and principal investigator for the SPNS initiative.
Learn how to build a new jail linkage program and what to consider for expanding an existing one. Jail Linkages SPNS grantees—including Dr. Timothy Flanigan of Miriam Hospital, Alison Jordan of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Dr. Ann Avery of Care Alliance Health Center describe the steps their programs took to implement their respective jail linkage programs, and provide advice for others hoping to replicate this work.
Explore how to secure buy-in and foster partnerships within correctional settings, as well as how to navigate the “culture of corrections.” Hannah Zellman of Philadelphia FIGHT, a SPNS Jail Linkages grantee, will present alongside Dr. Linda Rose Frank and Debra D’Alessandro of the PA/MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center about the work their organizations have done individually and collaboratively in the corrections setting.
These case studies highlight evidence-informed interventions focused on linkage to care. The case studies include: Intervention steps at-a-glance to provide an overview of featured activities, resource checklists outlining necessary capacity for replication, staffing table with personnel overviews, and narrative sections to walk readers through processes for replication.