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Working to Make Positive Re-Entry a Reality: CORE

Working to Make Positive Re-Entry a Reality: CORE

What is Core? In 2017, Westchester County Jail received an award from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care for implementing a progressive mental health program known as CORE, or the Community Oriented Re-Entry Program. The jail partnered with the Department of Community Mental Health who contributed staff and also invited several community providers to…

Good Outcomes: Barry

Good Outcomes: Barry

Barry’s story is all too common; the outcome however, isn’t. This is what we strive for everyday for our clients. Barry was caught in the classic endless loop that so many of our mentally ill experience… prison, to the streets and back to prison again… over, and over, and over. One of our huge initiatives…