Funder: Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction

Project Team: Spencer G. Lawson (PI), PhD, and Jennifer Pendleton, MA

Description: The Law & Psychiatry Program team is providing strategic, analytic, and evaluation support to the Indiana Integrated Reentry and Correctional Support (IRACS) Program in their effort to reintegrate incarcerated individuals back into society after they have been released from jails. The project team utilizes quality improvement methods paired with implementation science to enhance the IRACS Program through the following activities:

• Analysis of IRACS administrative data
• Inventory of facilitators and barriers to implementing IRACS via a SWOT analysis
• Examination of community-level outcomes through public-facing data sources
• IRACS outcome evaluation with the Indiana Management Performance Hub