Conference News

The deadline for submissions has passed. Thank you all for your submissions.

CONFERENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn about emerging research at the intersection of health and criminal justice and gain skill in designing applied research and program evaluation
• Network with a multidisciplinary group of participants concerned with the acquisition of new knowledge in criminal justice health practices 
• Gain new skills to develop academic-correctional health partnerships and overcome barriers to research in your institution
• Reflect on emerging health policy issues in criminal justice health

PRESENTATION TYPES AND DESCRIPTIONS
 

• 60 minute presentations: Intended for facilitated panels, policy presentations, or research skills training designed for audience engagement. Only a small number of 60 minute presentations will be accepted. 
• 30 minute presentations: Intended for extensive presentations which engage more audience input. Examples might include research methods presentations or completed research which will have policy and practice implications.  
• 15 minute presentation: Intended for concise 13- minute presentation on completed research or research in progress with 2 minutes of Q&A
• Poster Presentation: The poster format may be used for submissions of research results or other types of communications, e.g. policy, works in progress, research methods, practice transformation, etc.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Community reentry
• Implementation Science and Clinical Translation
• Juvenile Justice
• Mental Health
• Policy 
• Practice Redesign 
• Primary Care 
• Public Health 
• Research
• Ethics of Clinical Practice and Research 
• Specific Populations (e.g. women, geriatrics, LGBTQ, veterans)
• Substance Use Disorders
• Infections from Injection Drug Use (HIV, HCV)
• Community based participatory research
• Clinical controversies on health care delivery behind bars

GLOSSARY OF SUGGESTED TERMS

The Board of Directors of ACCJH is conscious of stigmatizing terminology which is often used to describe justice involved persons and populations. As such, we are promoting person- first language which we believe is more humanizing, to describe people who are involved in the criminal justice system. We support recommendations by the Osborne Association and seek to eliminate stigmatizing language in conference print materials, proceedings and presentations. To that end, we ask proposers to exclude the terms below from their proposals and presentations, substituting them with the suggested (or similar) terms.

Terms to be avoided                                                                  Preferred terms

Convict, Con, Inmate, Prisoner                                                       Person who is incarcerated

Offender, Criminal                                                                         Person in pre-trial or with charge

Parolee                                                                                        Justice-involved person

Ex-Con                                                                                         Formerly incarcerated person

Parolee                                                                                         Person on parole or probation

Congratulations 2021 Scholarship Recipients

We are pleased to annouce the 2021 keynote speakers.

Morgan Godvin is a freelance writer, advocate, harm reductionist, and Commissioner on the Oregon Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission. She is formerly incarcerated, having spent 4.5 years in federal custody for a drug conviction. Her advocacy centers around reducing the harms associated with drug use, preventing overdose death, improving jail and prison conditions, and increasing access to higher education in prison. She is a founding member of the Oregon Consortium for Higher Education in Prison. During her years of active addiction, she was jailed many times and has written about her experiences with drug court, court-mandated treatment, jail, and corrections health. She continues writing articles for popular press publications while beginning her academic career. Additionally, she works as a writer and researcher with the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University School of Law. She aspires to a career in public health law. She is a student at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Chris Beasley is a community psychologist who conducts community-engaged applied research to strengthen communities while also participating in community organizing to support such settings and helping students develop knowledge and skills for this work. As the Principal Investigator for the Post-Prison Education Research Lab (PERL), he uses a variety of psychological sub-disciplines to better understand social and psychological factors that facilitate and hinder transitions from prison to college. Dr. Beasley's current focus of inquiry is the psychological process through which formerly incarcerated people develop a broader understanding of their future potential and undergo processes of identity change. He is also strengthening UW Tacoma's support for people making these transitions by leading the development of a Husky Post-Prison Pathways program and advising the Formerly Incarcerated Student Association of UWT. As a community organizer, Dr. Beasley co-founded the national Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network and supports the development of similar networks of formerly incarcerated leaders and advocates for prison and post-prison higher education. Lastly, Dr. Beasley is a Board Director for From Prison Cells to PhD, an organization that provides post-prison higher education mentoring and support. 

Dr. Stanley Andrisse. I am an endocrinologist scientist at and faculty at Howard University College of Medicine and Georgetown Medical Center. 

My interest in this stems from my story. Growing up in Ferguson-Florissant, Missouri, I got involved with making poor decisions at a very young age. By my early 20’s, those poor decisions had exacerbated and I found myself sitting in front of a judge facing 20 years to life for drug trafficking charges. The judge sentenced me to 10 years in a maximum-security prison. I did a lot of reading, writing, and soul searching in prison. Through many letters to judges and correctional officials, I was accepted into a drug rehabilitation program while in prison. 

Call for abstracts and scholarship applications have been closed. 

Announcements have been sent out for new abstract submissions. 

Scholarship applications reviews are starting next week, announcements to follow.