AHP assisted in the successful delivery of the 2023 COSSAP National Forum session: A Jail’s Peer-Driven Blueprint for Reentry to Support Individuals in Recovery.
Presenters:
Sharon Bean, MPA, Jail Population Manager, Camden County Department of Corrections, Camden, New Jersey
Victoria Daggan, MSW, LSW, Jail Reentry Coordinator, Camden County Department of Corrections, Camden, New Jersey
Sekiya Golden, Camden County Center for Family Services, Camden, New Jersey
Since 2016, the Camden County, New Jersey, Department of Corrections (DOC) has expanded its mission to include a commitment to ensuring that individuals leaving the correctional facility (jail) are provided with support in their recovery and transition home following incarceration. The proposed workshop took our colleagues through Camden County DOC’s reentry journey that began with the offering of minimal support upon release to current day, where a multiprong, multifaceted reentry blueprint has been developed and implemented with a concentrated focus on individuals with substance use and/or mental health disorders. Presenters shared the key components of the reentry blueprint, which includes screening and assessment for substance use at the time of booking; expedited access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD); MOUD navigators who facilitate connection to treatment and access to Medicaid; reentry peer support teams that provide care coordination; collaboration with system partners; supportive housing; and the use of data for problem identification and determining impact. The workshop is both unique and relevant to Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) forum attendees because, historically, the literature and research regarding reentry in a carceral space refers often to prisons. There are myriad differences between jails and prisons, and therefore, strategies most effective for those returning home from prison cannot be replicated seamlessly in a jail setting. In addition, the workshop highlighted Camden County DOC’s peer support reentry teams, composed of individuals with lived criminal justice and recovery experience, that lead the reentry program with the support of case managers, who work with participants both pre- and post-release.
Learning Objectives
1. Recognize the value and importance of jail-based reentry services and programming, including addressing the unique barriers and challenges that local correction facilities encounter regularly.
2. Illustrate how peers with lived recovery and criminal justice experience can be embedded in a jail and supported to lead reentry initiatives.
3. Apply the comprehensive reentry blueprint/design outlined in the presentation to local reentry efforts to assist individuals with substance use disorders returning home to your community.
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