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1 Introduction and Overview
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... It works to promote health equity and the elimination of health disparities by increasing the visibility and understanding of inequities in health and health care among racial and ethnic populations; examining research, policy, and community-centered programs; and catalyzing the emergence of new leaders, partners, and stakeholders. The Arizona workshop was the last in a series of three centered on the intersection of health equity with the criminal justice system.
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... Several of the university's faculty and staff have been involved in the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council in Coconino County, where the university is located, and have worked closely with the local detention center on a project to address health disparities. The university has an active department of criminology and criminal justice, and with the generous support of the NARBHA Institute (formerly known as the Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority)
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... These conditions can interrupt a child's education, disrupt social connections, alienate loved ones, and limit opportunities for employment and college admission. Speakers discussed alternatives to court involvement and confinement, enhanced and evidence-based programming, alternatives to out-of-home placements, and gender-­ responsive and culturally tailored interventions and programming that can help move responses past the individual level toward programmatic, systemic, and policy solutions.
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... , members of the roundtable and other workshop participants commented on ideas and themes that had arisen over the course of the day, covering such topics as the philosophies that shape societal institutions, the links between the health care and juvenile justice systems, research gaps that could be filled, and the need to look upstream in the lives of young people to prevent crises before they occur. The workshop statement of task can be found in Appendix A; the workshop agenda is in Appendix B; and the speaker biographies are in Appendix C


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