Convened by PHIMC in partnership with AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), the Chicago Reentry Taskforce focuses primarily on issues related to Chicago and Cook County for current and formerly incarcerated individuals. The taskforce prioritizes training and discussion around barriers to reentry and changes that are relevant in Chicago, Cook County, and high-prevalence areas statewide in order to provide a public health response to mass incarceration.

The taskforce has the following goals:

• Engage Chicago and Cook County providers working at the intersection of public health and mass incarceration to identify the current landscape and propose strategies to create a public health response to incarceration and HIV
• Identify and recruit key stakeholders and people with lived experience to develop the narrative around incarceration and public health
• Develop a public health response and innovative solutions to combat incarceration and syndemics that include HIV, hepatitis C, and substance use disorders

If you provide services in the Chicagoland area and would like to participate in the taskforce, please contact reentry@phimc.org.