Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research seeks papers for 2004 conference "Reentry to Recovery"
The Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers University, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Massachusetts, seeks papers for their upcoming first biennial conference, entitled "Reentry to Recovery: People with Mental Illness Coming Home from Prison or Jail."
The conference will take place in Philadelphia on April 14-16, 2004. Its major themes include:
- Social policy and its impact on reentry/recovery
- Community capacity to support reentry/recovery
- Impact of reentry/recovery on the family/community
- Risk management and reentry/recovery programs
- Innovative programs and their diffusion
- Building productive partnerships across systems
- Interactions between mental health and criminal justice systems
- Special needs of female prisoners and prisoners of color
The deadline for submitting paper abstracts is November 1, 2003. Additional information about the conference can be found here.
The Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research is dedicated to conducting high quality, innovative research that will improve the ways in which the mental health and criminal justice systems respond to the needs of persons with mental illness and inform the policies that are intended to affect these responses. The Center was established in September 2002 and is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
