Centerforce programs serve a neglected community’s broad set of needs, from health education and prevention services to parenting and relationship classes, to relationship and communication skills-building workshops, to case-management for individuals and couples, and more.
Bay Area Network for Positive Health
The Bay Area Network for Positive Health links HIV infected individuals who are not currently receiving medical care with health providers in the community. (read more)
Hepatitis C Peer-Based Health Education Program (PHEP)
Centerforce’s longest running program, the PHEP trains incarcerated men and women to be peer educators and mobilizes them to raise awareness, provide education, and serve as a resource on a wide variety of health issues such as Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and substance abuse prevention. (read more)
Inside/Out Summit
The Inside/Out National Summit is the only conference that addresses the unique issues of incarceration and reentry from a multi-dimensional framework. (read more)
Project START
Project START is a 6-session individual-level intervention for people soon to be released from prison incorporating features of prevention, case management, motivational interviewing, and incremental risk reduction. The program focuses on the provision of HIV, STD, and Hepatitis education and skills training to promote reduction of risk behaviors. (read more)
MOMS: Maximizing Opportunities for Mothers to Succeed
In January 2011, Centerforce received the contract from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Behavioral Health Care Services to provide the case management component for the MOMS program located inside the Santa Rita County Jail. The MOMS Program is comprised of both an eight-week, in-custody parenting program and a post-release case management for up to one year, including services, alumni groups and limited transitional housing. The program targets pregnant/parenting mothers during and after their incarceration.
Safe Transitions
Centerforce currently provides transitional case management and linkage to services for HIV infected individuals leaving San Quentin State Prison and California Medical Facility, returning to the Bay Area. Centerforce also has many years of experience providing similar transitional case management and linkage to care systems in its 30 years of program delivery. We will use this current model of in-prison recruitment and screening, and development of case management and care objectives that follow the client through their transition back into the community, to adapt specific protocols and tools for recruitment, identification and transitional case management for African American males over 18 years of age, releasing and returning to Alameda County from one of these facilities within 3 months.