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    Inside-Out:

    "Fostering Healthy Outcomes for the Incarcerated and Their Families"

    October 7-9, 2002

    Shelter Pointe Hotel and Marina
    1551 Shelter Island Drive
    San Diego, CA 92106
    Ph: 619-221-8000
    Fax: 619-222-9738
    www.shelterpointe.com



    To make reservations:

    Please call 1-800-566-2524 before September 5th and inform them that you will be attending the "2002 Centerforce Summit". The conference rate is $125/night for Single/Double occupancy.


    Key Times and Events

    Monday, October 7
    11:30 Registration/Poster Displays
    1:00 Welcome & Opening Sessions
    3:30 Workshops (Session I)
    5:00 Plenary Session
    6:00 Opening Reception

    Tuesday, October 8
    7:00 Wake-Up Energizer
    8:00 Continental Breakfast
    9:00 General Session
    10:30 Workshops (Session II)
    12:00 Lunch & Keynote Address Rhodessa Jones
    2:30 Workshops (Session III)
    4:15 Workshops (Session IV)


    Wednesday, October 9
    7:00 Wake-Up Energizer
    8:00 Continental Breakfast
    9:00 Roundtable Discussions
    & Workshops (Session V)
    10:30 Closing Session
    12:00 Adjournment



    C&E = Clinical and Epidemiology,
    E&P = Education and Prevention,
    TS = Transitional Services,
    CT = Current Trends,
    C&F = Children & Family Services,
    RT = Roundtable Discussion,



    Session I (Monday, 3:30pm - 4:30pm)


    C: Substance Abuse & Infectious Diseases Donna Gold & Jamie Hart

    P: A Model of Support and Treatment for the HIV+ Incarcerated Transgender Community Dr. Joseph Bick

    T1: Panel Presentation on Children of Incarcerated Mothers Research Project Charlene Simmons, Anne Powell, & Marcus Nieto

    T2: Implementing a Hotline for HIV+ Inmates Glenn Gaylord

    I: Risks and Behaviors Associated with Hepatitis and the Opportunities for Health Education, Testing, and Prevention Sue Currie, Kim Page Schaffer, & Jackie Tulsky


    Session II (Tuesday, 10:30am - 11:30pm)


    C: Illinois Public Health, Corrections, and Community Initiative Kendall Moore

    P: Dynamic Fatherhood: How Faith-Based Residential Communities in Prisons Can Restore Families Mickey Griffin

    T1: L.I.F.E. Lessons: A Mentorship Program for Teens with Incarcerated Parents Jo Chapman & Tom Chapman

    T2: Corrections & Sexuality: The Pros and Cons of Policy Approach R.Hugh Potter

    I: Birth Outcomes of Women Incarcerated in Georgia in 1998 and 1999 Lori de Ravello & Consuelo Beck-Sague

    I: Re-Entry and Post Prison Family Dynamics: A Follow-Up Discussion Jeremy Travis & John Jeffries


    Session III (Tuesday, 2:30pm - 3:30pm)


    C: Transition to New Beginnings Terre Marshall & Sharon Mckinnie

    P: Evolution of a Collaboration: How Corrections and Public Health Can Work Together Laura Kroger

    T1: The Implications of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and How to Work with the Child Welfare System Arlene Lee & Peter Breen

    T2: Voices in Connection: HIV+ Women Speak Out in Prison Mary Jo Fink, Katsy Salbont & Alfreds Ligon

    I: Blood Borne Pathogens Among IDUs in Jails and Prisons Keith Sabin and Panelists

    I: Doing Brain Surgery in a Broom Closet: Creative Ways to Enhance Program Funding and Development Gretchen Newby & Jennifer Tait


    Session IV (Tuesday, 4:15pm - 5:15pm)


    C: Beyond Pink Underwear: Discharge Planning in Maricopa County Christina Hurst

    P: Substance Abuse, Treatment, and Violence Ramona Massey & Lee Boone

    T1: Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable Environment Keith Jackson

    T2: Managing the HIV/Hepatitis C Co-Infected Patient Dr. Michael Wong

    I: A Different Kind of Time: The Experiences of Children with Incarcerated Parents Deborah Vargas

    I: Incarcerated Clients as Participants in Service Delivery and Design Delila Vasquez


    Session V (Wednesday, 9:00am - 10:00am)


    C: The Criminal Justice System and its Impact on People of Color Pertaining to the Public Health System David Lewis

    P: The Dynamics of Coaching Training Melanie DewBerry & Laura Whitworth

    T1: Opening Space for Collaboration & Communications Lisa Heft

    T2: Integrating Jail Programs with Custody Operations Charlotte Tilkes, Debra Lenhart, & Linda Wills

    I: Voices of Unbroken Spirits and the Fight for Justice Dorsey Nunn, Susan Barton, & Theresa Azhocar

    I: Reaching, Reconciling, and Referring the Incarcerated Adolescent and Their Families Fatima Al-Misri & Charles Johnson


    Keynote and Plenary Session Topics

    Monday, October 7
    Voices of the Families Left Behind Panel of young adults sharing the triumphs and tragedies experienced when their parents went to prison. Post Prison Parenting and Family and Community Dynamics John Jeffries, New Jersey

    Tuesday, October 8
    Prisoner Re-Entry: Public Health and Other Perspectives Jeremy Travis, District of Columbia Creative Performance - Creative Survival Rhodessa Jones, California

    Wednesday, October 9
    Linking Community and Correctional Health: A Partnership to Enhance the Continuum of Care Panel led by John Miles, Georgia


    Keynote and Plenary Session Speakers


    Rhodessa Jones / Creative Performance - Creative Survival

    Rhodessa Jones is an actress, dancer, singer, writer, and teacher living in San Francisco, California. Ms. Jones, who is Co-artistic Director of the San Francisco-based performance company Cultural Odyssey, tours internationally and nationally performing, teaching, and speaking to her vision for "Performance in the 21st Century." She is the Director and Founder of THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN. Ms. Jones uses performance to increase self-awareness and self-esteem in the incarcerated women¹s population by creating and producing theater pieces based on their personal histories. The Medea Project has staged eight productions thus far. Rhodessa and the Medea Project have been honored with a Community Bridge Builder award, the Working Woman of the Year award, and serveral Isadora Duncan Awards.


    John M. Jeffries / Post Prison Parenting & Family and Community Dynamics

    A former dean at the New School's Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, John Jeffries teaches at Columbia University, where he is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a visiting professor at the Institute for Research in African- American Studies. He served as editor for the 1996 edition of the State of Black America. John earned a B.A. from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. He and Suzanne Menghraj co-authored "Serving Incarcerated and Ex-Offender Fathers and Their Families: A Review of the Field".


    Jeremy Travis / Prisoner Re-Entry: Public Health and Other Perspectives

    Jeremy Travis is a Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute, a non-profit research organization in Washington, DC. In affiliation with the Institute’s Justice Policy Center, Mr. Travis is developing research and policy agendas on crime in community context, new concepts of the agencies of justice, sentencing and prisoner reentry, and international crime. Before joining The Urban Institute, Mr. Travis was the Director of the National Institute of Justice. He has taught courses on criminal justice, public policy, history, and law at Yale, and New York University. He and Suzanne Menghraj co-authored "Serving Incarcerated and Ex-Offender Fathers and Their Families: A Review of the Field."


    John Miles / Linking Community and Correctional Health: A Partnership to Enhance the Continuum of Care

    John Miles has been an employee of the Management Assistance Corporation since his retirement from CDC in the Spring of 2001. In over 33 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mr. Miles served in a number of senior positions at the federal, state and local level. More recently, Mr. Miles was the Special Assistant for Corrections and Substance Abuse in the Office of the Director, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention.



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