Poster Session 5: Resilience in Myriad Contexts

Presenters: Kate Harcourt-Medina, Annelyse Iglesias, Rachel Gernert

Summary
A 2016 ASPE brief examined reentry success across several domains, including recidivism, abstaining from illicit drug use, finding employment, and two domains of family relationship quality (intimate or coparenting relationship quality and financial support for children), and identified several factors that promote success. Building from previous research examining the impact of successful reentry programs (ASPE, 2016) and Relationship Education with prisoners (Harcourt et al., 2017), and seeking to address immediate community needs surrounding the Opioid crisis, the current study aims to expand existing research and inform policy by evaluating the SHARP program, a model for intervention in jail facilities that encompasses multiple facets of successful reentry. The main objective of this study is to address the overall program model, initial findings, and important policy implications.

Objectives
-- Review current literature on prison programming and recidivism.
-- Discuss a new model for jail programming encompassing multiple domains of recidivism factors.
-- Examine initial evaluation results of SHARP.

Subject Codes: resilience, education
Population Codes: someone who is incarcerated
Method and Approach Codes: applied research, Family Life Education, policy/policy analysis