Jail Linkage Intervention Toolkit

This training manual synthesizes lessons learned from the federally funded, innovative Special Projects of National Significance Enhancing Linkages to HIV Primary Care & Services in Jail Settings Initiative, otherwise known as EnhanceLink. Approximately 85 percent of incarcerated persons in the United States pass solely through jails, yet most interventions focus exclusively on prisons. EnhanceLink thus fills an important research void.

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This guide is intended for organizations, agencies, and individuals considering strengthening connections between community and jail health care systems to improve continuity of care for recently incarcerated HIV-positive individuals. It provides approaches to implement new jail linkage programs or to help organizations and agencies plan how they can expand their current jail work. The target audience includes health care institutions, agencies, individual clinicians, and community partners with an interest and need to work with incarcerated populations, particularly HIV-positive jail inmates and the recently released.

This handbook details New York City Correctional Health Services’ Transitional Care Coordination intervention model, including program planning, implementation steps, and lessons learned. New York City was a SPNS grantee funded under the larger EnhanceLink study.

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