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Community Voices: Health Care for the Underserved has endorsed a report released by the Open Society Institute (OSI) recommending investment in "pre-entry" interventions to break the cycle of incarceration and decrease crime. The report Moving Toward a More Integrative Approach to Justice Reform presents a vision of an integrative approach to justice reform—an approach that utilizes multidisciplinary collaboration to share perspectives on the issues that fuel the cycle of incarceration, to promote public investments in effective intervention strategies, and to advance public safety by decreasing the likelihood that a person will engage in risky or criminal behavior, instead of building more prisons and jails.
Community Voices is a group of community-based demonstration projects dedicated to finding real-life ways to provide greater access to quality health care to the underserved and uninsured people in America. It is managed by the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine (NCPC).
"We believe that these recommendations will, if implemented, seed and energize a new movement to promote more effective approaches to criminal justice issues and abate the disproportionate numbers of the poor and people of color cycling through the system," said Dr. Henrie Treadwell, Director, Community Voices of Morehouse School of Medicine.
NCPC coordinates the efforts of several resource groups to assist the following eight communities working to improve access to health care at the national effort:
- Baltimore Community Voices
- Community Voices Miami
- Community Voices New Mexico
- Community Voices Oakland
- Denver Health Community Voices
- FirstHealth Community Voices
- Ingham Community Voices
- Northern Manhattan Community Voices
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