Women's Prison Association and Home

Sarah powell huntington house, funded by the nyc department of homeless services, is a 28-unit transitional residence for women who have a history or are at risk for criminal involvement and their children. Services include case management, housing placement assistance, recreational enrichment, and connection to appropriate complementary services inclduing drug treatment, and health and mental health care.

Nyc mayor's office of criminal justice (mocj) justicehome alternative to incarceration is a community based program providing intensive services in the community to women who would otherwise face jail or Prison sentences. The program provides intensive Home and field-based case management, cognitive behavioral programming, and connection to services to support decreased risk for continuing cj involvement, including drug and mental health treatment, trauma recovery services, assistance with housing, etc.

Mocj transitional services is funded with additional support from the office of the first lady of nyc and provides job readiness, sector specific job training, paid training and internships, and job placement and retention assistance.

Nyc mayor's office of criminal justice (mocj) community linkage unit and law project funded via a city council allocation, wpa's community linkage unit screens prospective clients and connects them to appropriate programming at wpa or with partner agencies, provides new client orientations and reentry groups, and provides shortt-term case management to help criminal justice-involved women access the services and support they need to achieve stability and self-sufficiency.

Aids institute-pb hiv svcs. Prison-based hiv program trains incarcerated women as peer educators to educate fellow incarcerated women about hiv and stds, provides anonymous hiv testing, conducts traumafocused support groups, and helps women with hepatitis c who are nearing release to plan for continuity of care in the community via linkage and navigation programming. Addtionally, support from health research, inc funds linkage and navigation efforts with hiv+ women nearing release from nys correctional facilities.

Ccp/ending the epidemic (ete) provides hiv risk screening, hiv prevention counseling, and linkage to hiv prevention services including prep and other programming to wpa clients.

The wpa law project (formerly incarcerated mothers law project -imlp) provides family law and other civil legal consultation and assistance to women with involvement in the criminal legal system or related systems. The law project also provides education in civil legal consequences of criminal convictions in housing, employment, family law, and other matters. The program is funded via city council allocations contraced through mocj and safe horizon.

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