Center for Health Justice empowers people affected by incarceration to make healthier choices and advocates for the elimination of disparities between prisoner health and public health.
Call: 213.229.0979 collect Center for Health Justice has a free national prisoner HIV prevention & treatment hotline service that accepts collect calls from inmates during our regular business hours (Monday-Friday 8 to 3pm).
Pioneer Awards 2011
CHJ's new substance abuse education program, "Keeping it Real" will provide critical HIV and substance abuse education through a rotating series of six workshops in jail units that house self-identified gay men (the "K6G Unit" of Men's Central Jail) and women who are housed at the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF).
CHJ's Women's Peer Education Program (WPEP), our first treatment-focused intervention with positive women, will meet the unmet education and healthcare access needs of HIV+ and at-risk women in the L.A. County Jail. The goal of WPEP is to educate and empower HIV+ women to stay healthy and advocate for their own healthcare, both during incarceration and after release.