This guide discusses the challenges in care transitions and the need for better care practices and care coordination from inpatient to outpatient behavioral health care, and presents feasible, evidence-based practices that health systems and providers can take to improve patient connection and safety during inpatient to outpatient transition, and provides recommendations specific to both inpatient and outpatient settings.
TIP 44: Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System
This manual offers guidelines to help counselors and administrators deliver substance use disorder treatment in criminal justice settings.
Addressing the Critical Need for Housing and Strategies to Improve Housing Access
This is part 2 of a five-part series from the Early Diversion Virtual Learning Community. The webinar focuses on comprehensive strategies to improve housing access, which is key to early diversion.
Recovery LIVE: Supporting Recovery for Individuals Who are Incarcerated
Combining peer recovery support with other re-entry support services helps people transition from incarceration to the community. The presenters bring their lived experiences of achieving long-term recovery after incarceration and share experiences and approaches, offer resources, and facilitate discussion.
Recovery LIVE: Criminal Justice System Impact on Marginalized Populations
A criminal conviction limits employment prospects, access to public housing assistance, and social services. Further, systemic racism means that these barriers disproportionately affect people of color. This recorded webinar discusses the impact of mass incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, extreme sentencing, and collateral consequences for disenfranchised and marginalized populations, with a focus on the needs of women exiting the criminal justice system.