Probation as a setting for building well-being through integrated service provision: evaluating an Offender Health Trainer service

Dooris, Mark; McArt, Dervla; Hurley, Margaret Anne; Baybutt, Michelle

doi:10.1177/1757913913486036

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“…However, probation and parole systems are typically overtaxed and resources are not oriented towards goals that might be considered secondary to public safety (Taxman et al 2009). Stronger alliances between probation and parole systems and community service agencies is one potential strategy to better meet the needs of women in the system (Dooris et al 2013). In San Francisco, for example, the Adult Probation Office is collaborating with community agencies on a “one-stop re-entry center” to link people on probation with an array of stabilizing services (Community Corrections Partnership Executive Committee 2014).…”

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Health service use and social vulnerability in a community-based sample of women on probation and parole, 2011–2013

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BackgroundMost women involved in the criminal justice system are not incarcerated, but rather on probation or parole. We examined the receipt of health services and social vulnerability among women on parole or probation in the past year.MethodsIn a community-based sample of 776 women who use crack cocaine or injection drugs, we compared those who had been on probation or parole in the past year with those who had no criminal justice involvement in the past year.ResultsWomen recently on probation or people were no more likely have health insurance, or to receive most health services, than women not in the criminal justice system. In addition, we found social vulnerabilities that contribute to poor health to be significantly more prevalent among women on probation or parole.ConclusionsThere is a missed opportunity to address health and social needs of women on probation or parole.

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Health service use and social vulnerability in a community-based sample of women on probation and parole, 2011–2013

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“…Space does not permit a full review of these, but examples include Health Trainers/Champions in probation settings (see for example Brooker and Sirdifield, 2007, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 2011a, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 2011b, Dooris et al, 2013, probation psychiatric services/clinics (Collins et al, 1993, Huckle et al, 1996, see for example Cohen et al, 1999 and projects such as the Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service (Senior and …”

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Probation’s role in offender mental health

Sirdifield

Owen

2016

IJPH

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the role in offender mental health for the probation service described in policy translates into practice through exploring staff and offenders’ perceptions of this role in one probation trust. In particular, to examine barriers to staff performing their role and ways of overcoming them. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative secondary analysis of data from semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 11 probation staff and nine offenders using the constant comparative method. Findings Both staff and offenders defined probation’s role as identifying and monitoring mental illness amongst offenders, facilitating access to and monitoring offenders’ engagement with health services, and managing risk. Barriers to fulfilling this role included limited training, a lack of formal referral procedures/pathways between probation and health agencies, difficulties in obtaining and administering mental health treatment requirements, problems with inter-agency communication, and gaps in service provision for those with dual diagnosis and personality disorder. Strategies for improvement include improved training, developing a specialist role in probation and formalising partnership arrangements. Research limitations/implications Further research is required to explore the transferability of these findings, particularly in the light of the recent probation reforms. Originality/value This is the first paper to explore how staff and offenders perceive probation’s role in offender mental health in comparison with the role set out in policy.

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“…Most recent studies have focused on health trainers (Ball & Nasr , Wills & Cook , Dooris et al . , Rahman & Wills ). Many of these sought to evaluate how health trainers engage with their training (Michie et al .…”

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“…), and what they know about smoking (Dooris et al . ), alcohol (Rahman & Wills ), obesity (Ward & Banks ), stress (Rickard et al . ) and mental health (White et al .…”

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Insiders and incomers: how lay public health workers' knowledge might improve public health practice

Yoeli

Cattan²

2017

Health Soc Care Community

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Since 2005, health trainers and other lay public health workers (LPHWs) have been increasingly active in the UK. Although elsewhere in the world LPHWs are expected to come from the communities within which they work and know that their knowledge is valued, neither is the case for LPHWs in the UK. This study sought to discover the lay knowledge of health trainers and other LPHWs, aiming to ascertain how this knowledge might more effectively be utilised within UK public health services. This paper describes a participatory and ethnographic case study research project undertaken on an anonymised urban estate in North East England. Findings were generated by a range of means including by participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Seven LPHWs took part, as did 32 other community members. This study found that the lay health knowledge of an individual UK LPHW is determined primarily by his or her position within, or in relation to, the community within which he or she works. Insider LPHWs possess an embodied knowledge and incomer LPHWs possess an experiential knowledge which, although different from one another, are essentially interpersonal in nature. Lay health knowledge can take different forms, and different LPHWs can provide different forms of lay health knowledge. Public health structures and services in the UK should make better use of all forms of LPHW knowledge, and should seek from LPHWs training on how to engage the most 'hard-to-reach' or 'difficult-to-engage' groups. Services recruiting LPHWs should decide whether they are seeking embodied insider LPHW knowledge, experiential incomer LPHW knowledge or a mixture of both.

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Probation as a setting for building well-being through integrated service provision: evaluating an Offender Health Trainer service

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

Health service use and social vulnerability in a community-based sample of women on probation and parole, 2011–2013

Health service use and social vulnerability in a community-based sample of women on probation and parole, 2011–2013

Probation’s role in offender mental health

Insiders and incomers: how lay public health workers' knowledge might improve public health practice

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