Completed with Impact of Incarceration Work Group

• Drugs (heroin) - generations are affected by this
• When you are on heroin there is nothing else - there is no "in between"
• need more interventions/treatment/rehabilitation services
• teenage dabbling
• culture around drug use
• many start with pain pills and then move to harder drugs
• can take a lot to break the cycle
• need early interventions
• supports for families in treatment
• Need to intervene with children and young families to break the cycle
• Opportunities for families
• Criminal records create barriers to jobs and stability
• Cultural biases towards individuals with criminal records/history of drug use or abuse
• Mental Health issues - medication & treatment, stigma and shame (though it is getting a little better)
• Co-occurring disorders
• More early interventions are helping (pre-trial diversion etc. growing) but need to increase access\
• Need early interventions for those who don't get referred to pre-trial diversion
• Increase of guns available on the street?
• Issues meeting requirements for many training programs or employment programs
• Challenges with those mandated to treatment (ie methadone) that are not equipped to manage treatment
• Inmates lacking GED (learning disabilities)
• Young male inmates with low literacy rates

• Partnership CYF
• Police
• AACPS - Teachers
• Health Department
• families impacted by incarceration
• parents
• grandparents
• Detention Centers
• NAACP
• Get young people involved
• SF Facilitators
• AACPL
• Public Defenders Office
• Dept. of Aging
• Kinship
• Mental Health
• Substance abuse prevention/treatment
• Diversion programs
• Probation & Parole - reentry, need help "reforming a family"
• AAWDC - reentry, getting families back to stability
• Training programs
• Housing
• faith community
• Big Brothers and Big Sisters (AMACHI)
• Rec and Parks
• AACC - GED services and training/employment programs

• Family involvement - contact visits
• Strengthening Families
• Peer support
• Educator training to understand issues these families/children are struggling with
• Behavioral interventions for kids with incarcerated family members
• Open Book
• Diversion programs
• ADI/substance abuse treatment
• Treatment vs. jail?
• Expungement of Criminal Backgrounds - policy issues
• Bail reform
• Re-entry programs - employment, basic needs, stability
• Mentor on the outside - outside supports
• Mentoring Moms

• Expansion of Open Book
• Materials/e-readers for inmates or educational films etc to keep minds active in incarceration
• Nurseries attached to prisons to keep moms and babies together (off the wall!)
• Amachi program moving inside walls
• Expansion of Strengthening Families inside jails
• Positive youth groups to shift convo/culture and keep kids on a positive track
• More reentry programs/expungement
• More basic education - move towards GED
• Targeted literacy programs for young male inmates
• SKYPE with families instead of calls so parents and children can see eachother (particularly for families that can't get kids to the facilities for in-person visits)