P2PH in the Media
- 12/21/2020 - City’s Jail Population Rises After Bail Reform Gets A Rewrite - Gothamist
- 12/15/2020 – NYC Jail Inmates Lack Health Care After Release – City & State New York
- 11/11/2020 – Jeff Coots on Police-Free Approach to Mental Health Crises - Good Day New York, Fox
- 11/10/2020 – NYC to Try New, Police-Free Approach to Mental Health Crises: de Blasio – NY Daily News
- 11/10/2020 – NYC to Send EMS, Mental Health Personnel to Some Mental Health Calls Instead of Police – EMS1
- 9/17/2020 – New York Jail Population Rises for First Time in a Year After Bail Reform Rollback – NY Daily News
- 7/2/2020 – New York’s Pandemic Rolls On, and Prison Testing is Still an Issue – CityLimits
Publications
- P2PH Opioids + Harm Reduction Brief - focuses on the strong track record of harm reduction strategies in reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, its role in the current opioid overdose epidemic, and the potential for Safe Consumption Facilities to significantly reduce overdose fatalities in NYC.
- Healthy Communities Create Safety - a resource guide developed in partnership with Human Impact Solutions (Oakland, CA) to help policy-makers identify community investment opportunities that have a strong evidence base demonstrating improved health outcomes and reduced criminal justice exposure.
Past Conferences
P2PH organizes annual conference events to highlight the endemic social and structural problems that lead to criminal justice involvement, and to position public health interventions to be successful and held accountable to better health, safety and social outcomes. Our latest conference in December 2019, “Addressing the Public Health Challenges of New York’s 2019 Bail Reform Legislation” (add link) focused on the health burdens shared by jail-involved clients and the community investments needed to ensure their stability and well-being upon reentry.
- The 6th Annual P2PH Conference: Addressing The Public Health Challenges of New York’s 2019 Bail Reform Legislation (December 2019)
- The 5th Annual P2PH Conference: The Keys to Closing Rikers: Building a Comprehensive Behavioral Health system in NYC (May 2018)
- The 4th Annual P2PH Conference: Beyond the Basics: Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved Individuals (June 2017)
- The 3rd Annual P2PH Conference: Meet the Experts: Improving Outcomes for Justice-Involved Populations with Behavioral Needs (June 2016)
- The 2nd Annual P2PH Conference: Policy-to-Practice: Transformative Governance Strategies to Enhance Public Mental Health
- The 1st Annual P2PH Conference: Decarceration: A Public Health Approach to Reentry (April 2014)