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.
Post-Release Support
Project Home L.A.: is a women’s empowerment program for females who currently have male partners incarcerated or who have had past incarceration history. This program is designed to train women to go back out into their social network to talk about the risk of acquiring HIV and other STDs.
Health Justice Test Link Program: provides access to HIV testing services targeting men and women recently released from California prisons to Los Angeles County (LAC). We do this by providing HIV education and testing outreach services at Los Angeles County Police and Corrections Team (PACT) Meetings which all paroling prisoners are required to attend upon their release. Through Health Justice Test Link, our peer staff – individuals who are HIV+ with a history of incarceration – will conduct HIV prevention education sessions at the PACT Meetings in LAC and emphasize the importance of knowing one’s status for the purpose of prevention, early diagnosis and treatment.
Positive Parolee Network Program: (PPN) is a peer-driven, strengths-based team support program for HIV+ parolees returning to L.A. County with the goal of increasing linkage to and retention in HIV medical care. Through the PPN we propose to provide consistent, sustainable, clinically supervised peer-driven support and linkage to services for individuals living with HIV who are paroling from California’s State Prisons to Los Angeles County in order to engage and retain them in HIV medical treatment post-release. We will do this by identifying HIV-positive parolees, linking them to care linkage teams, and conducting ongoing educational activities with parole officers, HIV service providers, and parolees. In the process, information on the systems-related barriers faced by HIV parolees will be documented and addressed through the ongoing policy and advocacy work carried out by the Center for Health Justice.
