Skip to main content

Table 1 Reentry challenges identified and their associated intervention plans

From: A novel application of process mapping in a criminal justice setting to examine implementation of peer support for veterans leaving incarceration

Period of reentry support

Main challenge identified

Intervention plan to address challenge

Facilitation focus to operationalize intervention plan

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