Q1 2021

Three sessions were delivered for people in custody with face to face sessions now started in the compulsoary drug treatment centre. 

Q4 2020

Two sessions were delivered for people in custody despite lock downs and tight restricitions. Sessions were delivered online and a small group face to face for women attending community corrections programs. 

Q3 2020

Restrictions accessing custodial centres prevented delivery of education sessions to people in custody. However, a large scale HNSW health promotion project was delivered in this quarter. Nearly all poeple in a NSW correctional centre would have received one of the 10,000 packs distributed. The pack is a clear pencil case containing coloured pencils, Tx comic books and hep C info brochure for people in custody, coloured pencils, and 4x mindfulness colouring-in postcards with hep C health messages, HNSW services listed and a space for writing home. Printed with funding from Abvie, endorsed by JH&FMHN and CSNSW. 

Online workshops are sheduled with select centres for next quarter. 

Q1 2020

HNSW delivered one session for a group of men in custody with another cancelled due to COVID-19. 

Q4 2019

53 people from correctional services and people in custody received education this quarter.  The health promotion team delivered education at Shortland CC, Mary Wade and Miruma. 

HNSW Aboriginal Project Officer teamed with CRC to deliver the Caught Up Project for female inmates at Mary Wade CC.  The project focused on Hep C harm minimisation from 6 mostly Aboriginal women telling their story using rap and choreography, filmed and recorded as a music DVD.  The writing and performing workshops ran over 2 days collaborating with the award winning hip hop crew The Last Kinection.  The DVD resource Stay True was developed by people in prison engaging target audience in prison through story telling with the aim of de-stigmatizing and reducing fear around testing, treatment and raising awareness of the long term consequences of chronic Hep C.  The health promotion aims to empower incarcerated women and to seek Hep C treatment: become peer leaders in harm minimization messages, while providing an opportunity to develop cultural strength and pride in culture. The projects outcome DVD Stay True again sends a powerful Hep C message and tells the women's stories.