Period of reentry support | Main challenge identified | Intervention plan to address challenge | Facilitation focus to operationalize intervention plan |
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Identification | Systematic identification of release-facing veterans | Peers will communicate regularly with correctional facilities’ staff who lead their internal reentry planning efforts | Involve correctional facilities’ staff early on in intervention development to reflect their perspectives in defining peers’ roles, and create relationship-building opportunities between new peers and correctional facilities’ staff |
Pre-release | Informing veterans of available service pre-release | Peers, in their meetings with veterans in correctional facilities, will discuss available resources and options Peers will have access to a resource guide, and be trained in how to identify, in the community to which a veteran is returning, additional programs and services such as for health care, housing, and employment | Gather (and define a procedure for maintaining up to date) information on available resources and options from multiple sources that peers can build on Develop a training manual for peers, together with peers’ supervisors and with input from key stakeholder representatives, which will serve as the main step-by-step guide to orienting new peers to serving in the role of assisting with veterans’ reentry |
Post-release | Maintaining contact with veterans post-release | Peers will not only note where a veteran is going immediately upon release, but also collect from the veteran contact information for several people who will always know how to reach the veteran | Set up a standardized day-of-release protocol, together with correctional facilities’ staff, for peers to collect the needed contact and other veteran-specific information for maintaining in touch with the veteran following release |