Healthforce Center Forthcoming 2016 Criminology and Public Policy Vol. 15, issue 2 -

A report exploring care models and policies funded by AB 109 enhancing utilization of peer providers in California in transitions of care, whose focus is on services and programs to help individuals transition out of incarceration and hospitalization using his or her lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or addiction. Study uses data from snowball sample and website searches that met a basic eligibility criteria and phone interviews with various program staff. Study reports reduced rates of recidivism in forensic programs and rate of re-hospitalization in hospital discharge programs and suggests collaboration between programs employing peer providers and hospital and corrections facilities to increase access to work.

The Healthforce Center aims equip health care organizations with the workforce knowledge and leadership skills to effect positive change.

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^{Keywords: Care providers, mental health, Peer providers, Forensic peer providers, Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), Proposition 63, Riverside University Health System•,San Diego NAMI Next Steps,Alameda County South Mentor on Discharge, TLCS (Transforming Lives, Cultivating Success) Triage Navigator (Sacramento), Los Angeles County Intensive Service Recipient and Kin through Peer}