Supporting women leaving prison through peer health mentoring: a participatory health research study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the transition between prison and community, people are at greatly increased risk for adverse health outcomes. This study describes a peer health mentoring program that supports women in the first 3 days after their release from a provincial correctional facility in British Columbia.

Methods

We used a participatory health research framework to develop multimethod processes to describe the Unlocking the Gates Peer Health Mentoring Program. Mentors are women with incarceration experience. Between 2013 and 2018, women released from Alouette Correctional Centre for Women were invited to access the program. All program clients were invited to participate in the surveys and interviews. We analyzed survey and interview data using descriptive analysis for quantitat

SUBMITTER: McLeod KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028165 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature