Our Services
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- KEEPING IT REAL
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
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.
Policy and Advocacy
Health Justice’s expertise and focused programs take advantage of a tremendous public health intervention opportunity: incarceration. As a result of our work, HIV+ and at-risk prisoners receive the HIV prevention and treatment services during this important time and return to their communities healthier, and with improved HIV prevention knowledge.
Health Justice Initiative (Policy and Advocacy): this program takes advantage of policy opportunities such as pending California Legislation on increased attention to poor prisoner medical care, and the causal relationship between incarceration and the spread of HIV in communities of color, advocating for improved HIV prevention and treatment in jails and prisons.
