Real People, Real Processes, Real Success

Creating connections among community resources and healthcare facilities provides a pathway for individuals to come full circle from a personal crisis to a personal transformation. Recognizing an individual in need and guiding them to the support services necessary to lift themselves from a desperate situation is a skill every South Dakotan should possess.

The Crisis Prevention and Recovery Best Practice Briefs series will highlight basic tools to recognize and assist an individual in crisis, resources available to reduce the risk of a crisis, and programs and services to reinforce change after a major intervention or treatment program.

⇒ Reentry Services to Break the Cycle
January 13, 2022 | 12 PM CT

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Poverty, trauma, and untreated mental health conditions often contribute to a vicious cycle of violence, addiction, and criminal activity. Lutheran Social Services has a long history of working with individuals within the correctional system to help break the cycle through counseling, work training and employment, and case management services.

Jay Marchand, CSW-PIP, director of reentry services for the Lutheran Social Services, will share tips and insights for supporting the physical and mental health needs of individuals reentering a community from a correctional facility.

Objectives:

• Identify unmet primary needs by addressing social determinants of health
• Recognize behaviors of those impacted by trauma
• Explain barriers to primary and behavioral health services for those reentering a community

Speaker:

Jay Marchand, CSW-PIP, Director of Reentry Services; Lutheran Social Services

A partnership event of the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network and the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care