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Vermont Incarcerated Womens’ Initiative Drug Education,, Susan Onderwyzer
Vermont Incarcerated Womens’ Initiative Drug Education,, Susan Onderwyzer
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The Vermont Agency of Human Services Incarcerated Women’s Initiative (IWI), constituted in April of 2005, was instrumental in supporting the development and implementation of a pilot project, which encompassed three communities in Vermont. The Pilot programs aimed to reduce and prevent incarceration of women whose criminogenic problems were related to their substance use and abuse. These innovative projects are the subject of this mixed methods evaluative study – to determine the extent to which involvement in this project changed the behaviors leading to incarceration and in effect, succeeded in reducing incarceration and further involvement with the criminal justice system. Qualitative …