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Title: DOING TIME: A TIME FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN TO DEVELOP AN ACTION HEALTH STRATEGY


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DOING TIME A TIME FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN TO
DEVELOP AN ACTION HEALTH STRATEGY
  • Department of Family Practice
  • School of Population Public Health
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • The University of British Columbia

Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research
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Content
  • Research Team
  • Background
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Purpose
  • Objectives
  • Study Outcomes
  • Methods
  • Challenges
  • Contact Information

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Research Team
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Research Team
  • Principal investigators
  • Ruth Martin, MD, Department of Family Practice,
    UBC
  • Patti Janssen, PhD, School of Population and
    Public Health, UBC
  • Co-investigators
  • Alison Granger-Brown, MA, recreation therapist,
    Women into Healing, Fraser Valley Institute
  • Lara-Lisa Condello, MA, Criminology, Nicola
    Valley Institute of Technology
  • Vivian Ramsden, PhD, Graduate Studies and
    Research, Family Medicine, University of
    Saskatchewan
  • Sarah Desmarais, PhD, Centre for Children
    Committing Offences, Child Development Institute
  • Lynn Fels, PhD, Faculty of Education, Simon
    Fraser University

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Co-Investigators cont
  • Jane Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, School of Population and
    Public Health, UBC
  • Marla Buchanan, PhD, Educational Counselling
    Psychology, and Special Education, UBC
  • Carl Leggo, PhD, Language and Literacy Education,
    UBC
  • Ann Macaulay, MD, Participatory Research
    Department, McGill University
  • Nichole Fairbrother, PhD, Joint appointment with
    Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC.
  • Karen Meyer, PhD, Centre for the Study of
    Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education,
    UBC
  • Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, Family Practice, UBC
  • Kate Shannon, PhD, BC Centre for Excellence in
    HIV/AIDS
  • Trevor Corneil, MD, MSc, Career Counselling
    Program, UBC
  • Dennis Wardman, MD, MCM, Health Care and
    Epidemiology, UBC
  • Jim Frankish, PhD, Centre for Population Health
    Promotion Research, and College for
    Interdisciplinary Studies, UBC

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Research Team
  • Project staff
  • Mo Korchinski, community-based researcher,
    research assistant
  • Kelly Murphy, community-based researcher,
    administrative support
  • Nancy Espinoza, research coordinator
  • Community-based researchers
  • Lora Kwandibans, community resources
  • Jen McMillan, newsletter and blog
  • Christine Hemmingway, facilitation
  • Andrea Muller, webpage design
  • Debra Hanson, housing and several surveys,
    paragraphs of passion
  • And others

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Background
  • This research project was informed by the
    development of 9 health goals that emerged from
    surveys and qualitative data undertaken by the
    research team at ACCW
  • 1. Improved relationships with children, family
    and partners
  • 2. Improved peer and community support
  • 3. Safe and stable housing
  • 4. Improved access to individualized primary
    health care

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Background cont - health goals
  • 5. Increased job skills, training, and relevant
    employment
  • 6. Improved health (physical, emotional,
    spiritual, and mental)
  • 7. Improved dentition and oral health
  • 8. Improved access to health education and
    increased health knowledge
  • 9. Increased ability to contribute to society

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Participatory Action Research
  • PAR began in response to the distrust of study
    participants towards research for researchers
    benefits and not that of the community.
  • Participants own the research process and are
    supported to use the results to improve the
    quality of their lives.

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PAR cont
  • Three critical attributes
  • collaboration through the research process
  • mutually rewarding educational experience for
    researchers and community members
  • tangible action based on research results

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Purpose
  • Our aim is to work with women who have recently
    been incarcerated to improve our understanding of
    factors that contribute to their physical,
    spiritual, emotional and psychological health.
  • Our ultimate goal is to develop a
    community-based action health strategy that will
    support successful re-integration into society.

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Objectives
  • To determine the impact of womens ability to
    meet their health and social needs during the
    year following release from prison on the success
    of their re-integration into the community vs
    reincarceration.
  • To identify individual and community-level
    barriers to re-integration experienced by women
    within one year of release.

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Objectives cont
  • To develop a predictive model for recidivism
    based on health indicators and compare its
    validity and accuracy with that of the
    Corrections Branch Needs Assessment (CRNA) tool
    that is currently used to identify individuals at
    high vs. low risk for recidivism.
  • To foster and evaluate community-based peer
    support of released women.
  • To engage study participants, health authorities,
    regional/ provincial government and prison
    officials in translating the research into a
    health action strategy for incarcerated and
    transitioning women.

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Study Outcomes
  • Identification of factors impacting the ability
    of participants to meet their health and social
    needs during the year following release from
    prison
  • A predictive model for recidivism based on health
    indicators

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Study Outcomes cont
  • Comparison of this model with the Corrections
    Branch Needs Assessment (CRNA) tool and other
    standardized tools in current use for predicting
    recidivism.
  • A health action strategy for incarcerated and
    transitioning women.

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Methods
  • Participants
  • Women who are released from a provincial prison
    in BC during the study period.
  • Invitation to participate
  • Posters, brochures, word of mouth, and
    community-based research team.

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Methods cont
  • On release from ACCW, women are met at the bus
    stop and invited to learn about the study, and,
    if interested sign a consent form.

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Methods cont
  • Participants then have a baseline interview with
    a community-based researcher, that is, a women
    trained in interviewing who herself has had
    experience with incarceration.
  • Women are asked about their health, education,
    job skills, family, support, housing and other
    issues in accordance with the nine health goals.
  • The community-based researcher will contact the
    participants for follow-up interviews at 3, 6, 9
    and 12 months.

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Challenges and opportunities
  • Locating participants interested to be
    interviewed
  • Maintaining contact with participants
  • Research team members at different cities
  • Honoring and respecting diverse peoples
    experiences

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Contact information
  • In Vancouver
  • 604 875 3658 or Call Toll-free 1877 84WOMAN
  • Kelly Murphy at 604 230-8778
  • Ruth Martin ruth.martin_at_familymed.ubc.ca
  • Patti Janssen pjanssen_at_interchange.ubc.ca
  • Telephone 604 875-2424, ext 5415
  • Email doingtimeproject_at_gmail.com
  • Website www.womenin2healing.org
  • go to the Doing Time link

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Contact information cont
  • In Maple Ridge
  • Mo Korchinski at 778 829-5626
  • Alouette Addictions at 604 467-5179 and ask for
    Mo
  • In Abbotsford
  • Jen MacMillan at 604 226-0021
  • Alison Granger-Brown at 778 838 0701
  • Free with BC ACCESS
  • 604 660-2421 or 1800 663-7867
  • Ask for BC Womens Hospital
  • (604 875 2424)
  • then for Women into Healing, ext 3658
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