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Veterans Justice Reentry (Post-Incarceration) (QUE 15-284)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Peer-support plus usual care from the Health Care for Reentry Veterans program and Usual care from the Health Care for Reentry Veterans program for Linkage to Care and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 79 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
Veterans leaving incarceration and re-entering their communities (often described as "reentry" Veterans) face a number of challenges, including uncertainty about housing, vulnerability to substance use and relapse, on-going mental health concerns, and often multiple health conditions require timely continuity of care. The purpose of the project is to increase support for Veterans post-incarceration through the addition of trained peers with lived experience of being a Veteran and a history of incarceration. Emphasis will be on peers who will help link Veterans to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services, including housing and healthcare. Peers will provide linkage with Health Care Reentry Veterans program specialists, transportation to appointments, and support in community reintegration. Peers will assist reentry veterans to make a successful transition and get and stay engaged in their care.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
a peer mentor who is also a veteran will establish a relationship with each subject and provide instrumental and emotional support to the subject during the first 6 months of the subject's release from incarceration. This is in addition to the usual reentry support provided by the Health Care for Reentry Veterans program.
Health Care for Reentry Veterans program provides reentry planning while the veteran is incarcerated. An outreach worker visits the veteran in the incarceration facility to conduct a needs assessment and help create a reentry plan to cover issues such as where they will be housed, what health care appointments they will need in the first 30 days, whether they need legal assistance, etc.