- Develop a gender-informed organizing framework to guide changes in women’s prisons.
- Introduce medical self-management programs at women’s facilities [such as the peer-facilitated Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs (CDSMP)].
- Develop and launch a formal, stakeholder-driven, trauma-informed approach to identifying and applying gender-responsive healthcare practices.
- Build a gender-responsive, well-trained workforce that maintains emotional and physical safety while allowing individualized, calculated risks necessary to maximize rehabilitative outcomes.
- Implement a data-driven, trauma-informed and stakeholder-responsive assessment of use of force in CDCR’s women’s prisons.
- Expand and professionalize programs that can be both therapeutic and vocational – such as gardening programs – in women’s facilities.
- Expand access to programs that facilitate connection, collaboration, agency, and trust between women and staff.
- Maximize body scanner use to minimize search-related trauma and protect visiting opportunities.
- Establish gender-responsive resource and activity teams to reduce isolation and support trauma-informed care for the highest-risk, highest-need individuals in women’s prisons.
- Build women’s empowerment through rehabilitative programs that integrate family connections, parental identity, and caregiving.
- Build autonomy by giving women more control over everyday decision-making, food cultivation, and nutritional choices.
- Establish a structured, resident-led progression system to promote agency, accountability, and positive culture in women’s prisons.
