HRSA Announces $52 Million Investment for Health Centers to Provide Care for People Reentering the Community after Incarceration | HRSA
Summary
As many as 80% of individuals returning to the community after incarceration have chronic medical, psychiatric, and/or substance use conditions. Researchers have reported that among individuals who are released from prison, opioid overdose is a leading cause of death with a risk more than ten-fold that of the general population. Individuals leaving incarceration also face many heightened health risks, including disproportionately higher rates of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hepatitis, and hypertension.In addition to todays funding announcement, HRSA issued a draft policy earlier this year for all health centers clarifying the circumstances under which they may provide pre-release care to justice-involved individuals. We can change that if care and services are more closely connected to the reentry experience, which is why we are working to clarify that HRSA-funded health centers can provide pre-release services and why we are investing in health centers engaging with individuals prior to their release to better support their successful and healthy reentry to the community.Health centers are uniquely positioned to support justice-involved individuals as they navigate the reentry period and to help them overcome potential barriers to returning home and staying healthy. HRSAs draft policy proposes to make clear that health centers can provide health services to incarcerated individuals who are expected to be or are scheduled for release from a carceral setting within 90 days to help ensure continuity of care as people come home to their community.Health centers receiving grant awards today will focus on the following critical health needs: Addressing mental health and substance use disorder treatment needs; andAward recipients must also provide case management services and work with community partners to address health-related social needs, such as housing and food insecurity, financial strain, transportation barriers, and intimate partner violence.
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