collaboration with formerly incarcerated women
Amy is an active member of New Haven's efforts to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. She is a founding member of the New Haven Women's Resettlement Working Group and works on community efforts to end incarceration and increase access to social services for people during and after incarceration. She ran a weekly support group for HIV+ women incarcerated at CT's York Correctional Institution from 2017-2020 (the group was suspended due to COVID-19). Click HERE to see 2021 Conference PowerPoint about this collaboration with incarcerated women. Other projects include an occasional series of yoga classes for women in recovery in New Haven and community-based research with AIM, an organization that supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in Montgomery, AL.
6/19/20: Amy joins this roundtable discussing criminal justice issues in CT at 44:00.
OUTREACH AND ASSESSMENT
As a social work researcher, Amy contributes to community assessment and program evaluation projects. For example, she helped to evaluate a photovoice project with youth in Haiti and collaborated with a student to conduct a needs assessment of transgender women in New Haven. At national and international conferences, Amy shares her research with community members, non-profit agencies, government organizations, and academic researchers.
NEW HAVEN
Amy has lived in New Haven (CT) since 2002. New Haven is a small, diverse, urban area (pop. 130,000) that is a cultural and academic center of Connecticut. Amy has collaborated with many of the city’s community-based agencies to prevent HIV, support formerly incarcerated people, advocate with immigrants and refugees, be an ally for LGBT neighbors, and promote local history.
