Get Connected

Centerforce, Inc.

Get Connected is a multiservice demonstration project focused on health issues for inmates and their families at San Quentin Prison and the Central California Women’s Facility.

Description

Get Connected provides the following services:

• Peer Education: Staff provide 30 hours of health and skill-building training to inmates who are interested in becoming peer health educators. Trained inmate health educators lead daily health education workshops for new inmates.
• Reentry Education: Centerforce staff, inmate peer educators, and community service providers conduct workshops on various health topics for inmates preparing for release.
• Prevention Case Management: Centerforce staff provide five months of intensive case management services to returning prisoners that includes development of an individual risk assessment and reduction action plan prior to release and postrelease support through facilitated referrals to communitybased service providers.
• Health Promotion Initiative: Community health specialists provide workshops and resource fairs for inmates living with HIV and/or hepatitis C as they prepare for release.