Past Projects

Vaccine Algorithm Project

Children in juvenile justice facilities are far more likely than their peers in other settings to be missing certain state-mandated vaccines. The Lloyd Society and George Mason University developed a survey that allows juvenile detention facilities to identify which children are at greatest risk for being underimunized even when medical records are not available. This project was funded in part through a contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Catherine A. Gallagher

Catherine is an Associate Professor and Director of the Justice, Law and Crime Policy Graduate Program at George Mason University. Her research focuses on the ways in which the intersection between health care and justice agencies may be improved to better meet the needs of high-risk populations and the public health of their larger communities. Her work on justice-involved adolescents has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Journal of Adolescent Health, Social Science and Medicine and Pediatrics. She routinely works with the federal agencies such as the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Centers for Disease Control, the Office of the Surgeon General, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census in developing and monitoring national statistical programs and providing policy-relevant analyses. She led the epidemiological and legal research efforts behind a joint-agency Federal Initiative on Juvenile Justice Health, currently serves on the Campbell Crime and Justice Steering Group and actively participates with the WHO Prison Health board.

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The threshold effect of crowding on injuries from violence in juvenile justice facilities

Deaths in juvenile residential facilities

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The comparative risk of suicide in juvenile facilities and the general population

The association between suicide screening practices and attempts requiring emergency care

A national overview of reproductive health care services for girls

Gender equivalence in the provision of health services

Can juvenile justice detention facilities meet the call of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Na

A comparison of physicians’ and nurses’ responses to selected ethical dilemmas

Escapes from juvenile justice residential facilities:

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History of The Lloyd Society

The Lloyd Society was founded in 2006 by a team of research, legal, and health professionals who shared a common interest in populations who are involved with justice systems.  They established the Lloyd Society in order to develop means of translating their academic research into policies and programs that serve our most marginalized members of society.

  

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Welcome to The Lloyd Society. We are an independent, non-profit, research center dedicated to improving the lives of people involved in justice systems, such as jails, prisons, detention centers, foster care, group homes, halfway and intermediate housing facilities, treatment facilities, and supervised placement in private homes.

Over 30 million people – adolescents and adults – enter justice systems worldwide each year. These people are disproportionately of racial and ethnic minorities, from lower socio-economic classes, and on the whole, are under-resourced, under-educated, and suffer from multiple social, physical and mental health problems.

Our goal is to improve these lives. 

Summary Probation Count 2011/
The Juvenile Probation & Incarceration Costs Study

This update of total counts for the 2009 Census of Juveniles on Probation on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 is being conducted in partnership with George Mason University, The Pew Center on the States and The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Click here to access the project page.

The risk of offending on homicide victimization: A public health concern

Paulette Browne, MD

Paulette is a Reproductive Endocrinologist, currently practicing with Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center in Rockville, Maryland. She received her medical degree from The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Fletcher Allen Health Care at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at Rush-St. Luke’s Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Paulette is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Georgetown University, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology

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Nena Messina, Ph.D

Nena is an associate professor of criminology on faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. She has been involved in substance abuse research for over twelve years. Her areas of expertise include the association between crime, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse, and the specialized treatment needs of drug-dependent women offenders. Recently, Nena was appointed as a Special Consultant to act as a Governor's Rehabilitation Strike Team Member to create a strategic plan to reform the California prison system in response to Legislative bill AB 900 - The Public Safety & Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007. Nena has also focused her efforts toward identifying the long-term outcomes of drug-exposed children. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Children Exposed to Methamphetamine Use and Manufacture Study, a two-year pilot study to assess the medical, developmental, and placement outcomes of children removed from methamphetamine labs in Los Angeles County. Nena is also the PI of several NIDA-funded grants assessing the effectiveness of gender-responsive treatment for women offenders (on parole, in prison, or under community supervision such as drug court and Prop 36). She has collaborated on numerous publications on the psychosocial correlates of substance abuse treatment outcomes and has contributed a great deal to the understanding of co-occurring disorders, specifically Antisocial Personality Disorder and treatment responsivity for women offenders. Nena lives in Simi Valley, California with her two sons.

Kimberly Brooke Mehlman-Orozco. MA

Kim is a doctoral student in the Justice, Law, and Crime Policy Department at George Mason University specializing in meta analyses of prevalence data on health conditions among immigrant and justice involved populations. She also is completing a graduate certificate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Kim is the lead researcher for the Justice Health Libraries and lead methodologist for the databases that support the Cochrane Justice Health Field’s specialized registry. Kim has completed Cochrane trainings in systematic reviews, and she is leading a series of methodology workshops on systematic review search strategies for the International Network for Justice Health. She also is the data analyst for Lloyd’s validation study of vaccine delivery systems within detention settings.

 

In 2005, Kim graduated cum laude with a B.S. from George Mason University. As an undergraduate she majored in Administration of Justice and minored in Psychology. She also holds a M.A. from George Mason University in Justice, Law and Crime Policy. Kim received the Dean's Challenge Scholarship, an award given to only a few outstanding scholars. She has been certified as a library researcher by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Network for the Library of Medicine (NN/LM), Ovid, and ProQuest. She is qualified in STATA, SPSS, and Epi-Info.

Ajima Olaghere, MA

Ajima is a doctoral student at George Mason University in the Criminology, Law, and Policy Program. She serves as a Graduate Research Fellow with George Mason’s Center for Justice, Law, and Society and for the Washington D.C. based non-profit, The Sentencing Project.  Ajima is the lead methodologist on Lloyd’s ethnographic study of health care quality in a southeastern prison system and a primary researcher for the Justice Health Libraries. Ajima is spending a portion of this year in the Phillippines investigating human trafficking of minors in brothels. Ajima is a Senior Researcher for dissemination efforst across Fields within the Cochrane Collaboration on the Cochrane Justice Health Field: Dissemination Coordinator project and a Senior Researcher on the Arrested Health Care project providing qualitative research analysis.

Prior to starting her graduate studies, Ajima worked with the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, an affiliate non-profit organization of the Vera Institute of Justice. Her current research examines the relationship between family criminality and sentencing recommendations. Ajima earned her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Colby College in 2007. She earned her master’s degree at George Mason University, where she also is working towards her doctorate. Ajima believes in balancing research work and endeavors with community service and direct work when possible: she currently serves as Vice Chair of Precinct 13-30 for the Montgomery Democratic Central Committee, mentors, and is a founding member of her neighborhood civic association.

Adam Dobrin, Ph.D.

Adam serves as the liaison among Lloyd’s Founder, Catherine Gallagher, and the management team for the International Network for Justice Health. Adam is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University and is an Academic Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. Adam earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and both his Master’s and Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Maryland. While there he worked with the Violence Research Group applying public health methodologies to the problem of violence. Adam has published case-control studies on homicide and suicide risk factors and statistical compilations of violent crime. Adam lives in Port St. Lucie with his wife and sons.

Silvia Garcia

Silvia is a marketing expert with more than 10 years of experience in communications, strategic marketing, marketing research, and consumer behavior. She holds special interest in the emerging field of social marketing, which translates commercial marketing concepts into promotion of public issues, such as human rights and health care for prisoners. Ms. Livelli worked for seven years in her native Peru as a volunteer care provider in criminal facilities in Lima. This experience gave her invaluable, first-hand exposure and insight into the attitudes, motivations, behaviors, needs, and challenges of prisoners and their relatives. She also studied law in Peru for three years. Ms. Livelli currently works at the Office of the Legal Counsel at the Pan American Health Organization, a position that has enabled her to deepen her understanding of the health-related issues faced by vulnerable populations in the Americas, and the international and multidisciplinary efforts to improve these populations' health and living standards. Additionally, Ms. Livelli, who is fully bilingual in English and Spanish, is completing an MS in Marketing and an MBA at Johns Hopkins University.

Ann Gallagher, MA

Ann earned a Master’s of Science at the University of Maryland in 1996. Since then she has pursued research in biological and behavioral sciences in several settings. As adjunct professor at the University of Maryland in the 1990s and at Catholic University from 2006 until present she has taught cellular biology, environmental science, earth science, statistics, scientific analysis, behavior, and genetics among other topics. The most recent courses have been designed to introduce non-science students to the fundamentals of scientific approach and design. As a Board Member with the Lloyd Society and a research professor at George Mason University, Ann has explored links between environment, health, and risk level for juveniles in the United States. Most recently an association with the OJJDP has offered an opportunity to consider the nuances of large sample data collections from the data holder’s point of view. Cognitive interviewing, focus group presentations, respondent training, census pretesting, and consideration of questionnaire design have offered deeper understanding of respondent outreach and engagement.  Other recent projects include multiple citizen science studies; mega-predators along the Appalachian Trail, insect populations across North America, monitoring stream health with implications for student health and safety, monitoring guidance counselor activities as well as assisting with establishing policy and curriculum throughout a large public school system. Ann’s affiliations include the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and theUnion of Concerned Scientists.

Jack Chirieleison

Jack manages all automated systems for the U.S. Department of Justice Census of Juveniles on Probation (CJP), with direct responsibility for web development, database design and management, and geographic map and graph programming, as well as supervising network functions and security. Prior to joining The Lloyd Society in 2008, Jack was Owner/Principal of Luminosa Creative Services, a multidisciplinary company providing web development and design, publication design, digital media creation, project documentation and software training to public and private sector clients. Clients included the National Library of Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, George Mason University, the Center for Public Service Communication, the Center for Information Policy at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan’s School of Information. He is the 2010 recipient of the American Probation and Parole Association's University of Cincinnati Award for his technological contributions to the field as part of the CJP Project.

Charlene Sebold

Charlene manages the data for the Census of Juveniles on Probation and works closely with Jack to create reciprocal databases that allow CJP respondents to interact with data they submit for the census so as to increase respondent satisfaction with the CJP and to generate data in format meaningful to end users.  Prior to joining Lloyd as a contractor, Charlene worked for the US Census Bureau for 37 years. She served as the Chief of the Criminal Justice Statistics Branch which conducted surveys/censuses on behalf of the Department of Justice. She worked with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Bureau of Justices Statistics (BJS) in the development of data collections which included frame development, questionnaire design, data collection methods, data review and analysis. She worked on a multi-agency team that redesigned the juvenile data collection series for OJJDP which included the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and the Juveniles Residential Facilities Census. In addition, she served on the OJJDP Advisory Board and was a member of the National Criminal Justice Association.

Robert (Bob) Harper

Stacy Calhoun

Stacy is a project director and qualitative researcher at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and has been involved in substance abuse research for over eight years. She is currently the project director for several NIDA funded studies including “Enhancing Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Women Offenders” and is theproject director for a California Endowment project entitled “Diverting Women Offenders from Prison: An Outcome Study of Health and Well-Being,” which is being conducted through the Lloyd Society. She is also the qualitative analyst for two NIDA funded studies entitled “Emergency Management for Disruptions in Methadone Treatment and Four Models of Telephone Support for Stimulant Recovery.” Previously she was the Study Director for the Inmate Pre-Release Assessment (IPASS) study. IPASS is one of several NIDA-funded studies in the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) nationwide initiative. She has co-authored several articles and is currently the literature editor for the Offender Programs Report. Her research interests include offender reentry, drugs and crime, treatment for substance abusing offenders, and gender issues in substance abuse treatment. Stacy received her B.A. in Anthropology from UCLA and her Masters degree in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University.

Natalie Schneck

Natalie is an undergraduate student a George Mason University pursuing a B.S. in Community Health and a minor with concentration in nonfiction professional writing.  Her work focuses on dissemination of public health data to high risk and hard-to-reach populations. For Lloyd, she is examining the methods by which juvenile justice institutions in a mid-Atlantic state receive their health care information and avenues for improving their access to high quality data. 

Susie Nemes, Ph.D.

Susie is President and CEO of Social Solutions International, Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience working to improve the health and well-being of populations with special needs, including youth, older adults, women, and minorities. She has worked with these groups both as clinician and as researcher.  Susie has served as Principal Investigator (PI) and/or Co-Investigator (Co-PI) on a number projects for federal and foundation funders including NIDA, CDC, NIAAA, NIA, OWH, Air Force, and Robert Wood Johnson. While Susie’s primary expertise is related to substance abuse and HIV, she has served as PI or Co-PI for projects related to smoking cessation and prevention, screening of substance abuse and co-morbidity for adults and youth, STD prevention for pregnant women and African American youth, HIV screening, older adult alcohol education and screening, worksite wellness and fitness, online counseling, and parent child communication about sexuality for African American and Latino families. She has also served as PI for an international evaluation of drug treatment and prevention programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean funded by the US Department of State Department. Susie has published peer-reviewed work related to substance abuse and research methodologies as well as educational materials, curricula, websites, and online courses addressing a range of public health issues. She has successfully completed several outcome studies, tracking homeless and other substance abusers and obtaining very high follow-up rates. Susie obtained her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. She is bilingual and bicultural, as she was raised in Puerto Rico.

International Network for Justice Health

Justice Health is best conceived of as targeting:

(a) an especially high-risk population (those under the supervision of the justice system, either in institutions or in the community), that is

(b) served in a unique setting (one that is often offered in or coordinated by the justice system infrastructure in prisons, jails, and detention centers),

or (c) under unique circumstances in the community (for those supervised by justice systems while they continue to live at home or in more open community-based settings).

Justice health includes both adults and adolescents, as well as the families of justice-involved persons. Populations under the control of justice systems around the world are disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities, from lower socio-economic classes, and on the whole, are under-resourced, undereducated, and suffer from constellations of social, physical and mental health problems. Health care for these populations is often substandard, there is a common theme across the world of human rights concerns and issues of health care equity.

The International Network for Justice Health (INJH) is undergoing a four year exploratory process to determine how they can best inform and improve global justice health care issues. The first meeting, held in May 2009 in Orlando, Florida, addressed general justice health themes and long term objectives were identified. The second meeting was held in Scottsdale, Arizona June 26-28, 2010. At this meeting the INJH developed its objectives further and created specific goals for knowledge, development and dissemination. The conference included training and justice health related research sharing. To see documents and presentations from the 2010 INJH Conference, please click here.

Plans for the 2011 conference (tentatively scheduled for June 2011 in Los Angeles, California) will also be addressed.

This conference series is sponsered in large part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 

For examples of the knowledge mapping products that are being developed by the conference please click on this link that will take you to our Justice Health Libraries. 

Justice Health Libraries

All too often, academic research gets published in competitive, peer-reviewed journals that are well regarded yet largely unknown to the general population. Lloyd's Justice Health Libraries (JHL), which incorporate rigorous methodologies, synthesize all studies on a certain health condition, a certain demographic characteristic, or a certain justice setting, and will provide users with searchable databases of available literature on that topic.  For example, users may search for all studies on tuberculosis in justice settings, all studies that examine race issues in justice settings, all studies that examine healthcare in community based correctional settings, and any combination of those factors.  If someone wanted to know the scope of research on tuberculosis among young males in prison, our databases will allow for that search.  Even more, our databases interact with a mapping program created by our Chief Technology Officer, Jack Chirieleison, which provides users the ability to search interactive research databases. 

At the 2010 International Network for Justice Health Conference, Anne S. Douds, JD, Jack Chirielieson, Kimberley Mehlman-Orozco, MA and Ajima Olaghere, MA presented a status report on the Justice Health Libraries. A copy of this presentation can be found here.

Click here for a demonstration of the mapping program.

Current Projects

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Equal Employment

The Lloyd Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.  It is our policy to maintain a working environment free of all forms of unlawful discrimination.  The Lloyd Society affords equal opportunity to all employees and prospective employees without regards to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion age, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, marital status, disability, veteran or draft status.

It is the policy of The Lloyd Society to:

• Strictly follow personnel procedures that will ensure equal opportunity for all people without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, marital status, disability, veteran or draft status;

• Comply with all the relevant and applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The Lloyd Society will not discriminate against any qualified employee or job applicant with respect to any terms, privileges, or conditions of employment because of a person’s physical or mental disability.

• Make reasonable accommodations wherever necessary for all employees or applicants with disabilities, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the duties and assignments connected with the job and provided that any accommodations made do not require significant difficulty or expense.

• Achieve understanding and acceptance of The Lloyd Society’s policy on Equal Employment Opportunity by all employees and by the communities in which the company operates;

• Thoroughly investigate instances of alleged discrimination and take corrective action if warranted;

• Be continually alert to identify and correct any practices by individuals that are at variance with the intent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.

Data Integrity and Security

The Lloyd Society has a comprehensive Data Integrity Policy that has been developed to ensure the integrity (i.e., accuracy, validity, and reliability) of data collected and the ethical behavior by study staff in their interactions with study participants. Principal Investigators are required to submit detailed study-specific procedures designed to ensure data integrity and ethical staff behavior to the Lloyd Society Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for review and approval prior to commencing data collection. The Lloyd Society also has a comprehensive Data Security Policy detailing guidelines and procedures to ensure the safe and secure collection, transmission, and storage of study-related data. These policies were developed using the information security guidelines published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for government information system compliance under the Federal Information Security Management Act(FISMA).These guidelines are divided into management, operational and technical controls that focus respectively on risk management, human interaction and hardware/software system components. Standard procedures include the use of an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to transfer data collected in a secure and timely manner, disaster recovery measures, and controlled physical access to servers and study-related files.

Conflict of Interest

The Lloyd Society is committed to promoting objectivity in research and to maintaining standards to ensure that the design, conduct, and reporting of research will not be biased by any conflicting financial interest of an investigator.  This policy sets out the principles and processes that The Lloyd Society employs in the service of these objectives pursuant to requirements for the receipt of Federal funds. This policy applies to any person who is responsible for the design, conduct, or reporting of any research funded by a Federal agency.  (link to PDF COI statement). 

Justice Health Resources

The following is a list of helpful justice health and marginalized populations resources. This page is updated often. If you have items you think would be worth adding, please email them to webmaster@thelloydsociety.org.

Links:

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Cochrane Collaboration Justice Health Field

Equator Network

EVIPNet

McMaster University's database of systematic reviews on health systems

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

PAHO Research website

PAHO Video Channel

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

 

Reports:

Australia has just established a "national minimum dataset" for prisoner health. This is a set of indicators that all jurisdictions are required to report on annually. This link is the first report, based on indicators from 2009.

Publications

Events

Fellows

Staff

Board

People

Our team of staff, fellows, advisory members and Board of Directors consists of public policy, medical, legal, statistical, and academic professionals who are committed to serving justice populations by bridging the gap between research and action.  We believe that one of the best indicia of the justness of a society is the way that society treats those at its margins.  Much of our work focuses on health care among marginalized populations as a measurable proxy for the overall treatment of society’s most vulnerable people.  

Our Work

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Support & Contribute

The Lloyd Society depends upon the generosity of donors to support our work. There are several ways in which you can support us:

Project Funding

You can become involved in a current project either thought funding or through voluneteering your research expertise.  We'd also love to hear from you if you are currently working on a project and you would like to discuss a potential partnership with us.

Fellowship Funding

The Lloyd Society is fortunate to work with a fabulous group of Fellows who are dedicated to advancing justice health research. These Fellows donate their time to Lloyd, many while attending school or working full time. Opportunities are available to support their efforts or fund a portion of their research. Fellowship funding opportunities can sponsor a specific fellow or a specific research agenda.

Donations

As we are a non-profit charity incorporated under the 501(c)3 tax code, your donation should be tax deductible. Please consult with your accountant for more detailed information.

 

For more information on how you can impact the work of The Lloyd Society, please contact Catherine Gallagher at catherinegallagher@thelloydsociety.org.

About Us

Who We Are Are

The Lloyd Society is an independent, non-profit, research center providing objective, evidence-based research and analysis to inform decision makers and streamline policy to improve the lives of people in justice systems. 

What We Do

Over 30 million children and adults enter into jails, prisons, court-ordered treatment facilities, probation programs, and other justice settings worldwide each year. On the whole, they are under-resourced, under-educated, and suffer from a constellation of social, physical and mental health problems. Once they become involved in justice systems, their access to health care often becomes stymied by complex medical, legal, and administrative systems.

Many organizations around the world represent people involved in justice systems and advocate for the health and welfare of justice-involved populations. Yet there has never been a clearinghouse for synthesis of objective, evidence-based data on justice health matters. Until now. 

We provide empirically rigorous research and analysis of health care and social services in justice settings, among justice populations, and within justice systems. Our primary objective is to translate that research into usable formats, then to deliver those products to professionals in the best position to apply that research to resolve problems within justice health.  Examples of how we translate research into action include:

• Meta Analyses and Systematic Reviews of Existing Justice Related Research

• Qualitative Studies on Conditions of Confinement and Health Care Delivery

• On Site Training for Public and Private Professionals Serving Justice Populations

• Research, Training and Technical Assistance for Using Cost-Free, Web-Based Data Resources

• Expert Witness, Subject Matter Expert Consulting Services, and Amicus Curea Briefs

• Congressional and Governmental Testimony and White Papers

• Training and Workshops on Integrating Evidence Based Practices Into Legal and Justice Institutions and Proceedings

• Webinars and On-Site Training for Probation Officers, Judges, Attorneys, and Justice System Personnel

Our Vision

Equal access to evidence-based, quality heath care and social services for all marginalized populations, particularly children and those disenfranchised through involvement in justice systems.

Employing cutting-edge statistical and empirical analysis, The Lloyd Society provides expert consulting services on a variety of issues related to crime and justice. We analyze legislation, review policies, advise on best practices, and testify in legal proceedings. Fellows also provide confidential, written explanations of their findings. For example, on several occasions Fellows have reviewed proposed crime legislation, advised the client on its strengths and weaknesses, and provided a confidential, written analysis and proposal of next steps to consider.

When clients are informed about the full scope of a problem, they are better equipped to anticipate hurdles and capitalize on strengths while pursuing their objectives. The Lloyd Society provides the empirical analysis on which clients are able to craft their approaches to issues.

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Women’s Re-Entry Program

The Lloyd Society, in collaboration with UCLA, Prototypes and the Los Angeles County Re-Entry Council, is conducting a 2-year outcome evaluation funded by the California Endowment to test the efficacy of an experimental women's re-entry court program for women offenders. Specifically, the study will determine the relative effectiveness of a women-focused (WF) re-entry court program with wrap-around services, compared to incarceration, to promote positive behaviors and health and well-being among women parolees and probationers. Results of this project will address the existing gap in knowledge related to treating drug-dependent women offenders, thus strengthening the services available in the community for this population of women.