The National Hepatitis Corrections Network works with a wide variety of community-based and governmental agencies running education, testing, and linkage to care programs. We can connect you to information and resources if you would like to start a new program, or if you would like information on how to provide these types of services for HCV. Please contact us.
In the meantime, below is a small sample of programs being run around the country:
Hepatitis Education Project Corrections Programs
HCV Education Provided to inmates in Washington DOC facilities
Centerforce's HCV Peer-Based Health Education Program (PHEP)
Longstanging California-based peer education program for HCV
SHIELD (Self-Help in Eliminating Life Threatening Diseases)
The Hepatitis Education project adapted the CDC peer educator training DEBI to include HCV and for use in correctional settings. Click here to view our poster from the 2013 UMass Academic and Health Policy Conference on SHIELD Implementation in Washington's state prisons. If you would like copies of the updated curriculum, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Overview of Existing Prisoner Peer Education Programs
Various other peer education programs and contact information
New York State Hepatitis C Continuity of Care Program (also see related research)
Program in New York that allows HCV treatment to be initiated regardless of an inmates proximity to his/her release.
Transitions Clinics
Connects inmates to medical care upon release
Prisoner Health is Community Health: The New Mexico Peer Education Project
Prepares peer educators by providing them with various resources and strategies, such as fact sheets and the Change Model
Project HIRE
Transitional serice that supports individuals through their move from incarceration to community.
- (206) 732-0311
- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
