Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Homeless Female Offenders Returning to the Community: Improving Hopeful Futures
Brief Summary: In Phase I of this R34, the team from the University of California Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Irvine researchers plan to utilize the successful community participatory approaches to refine a gender-sensitive criminogenic needs -focused intervention program, Female Ex-Offender Mentoring in Care (FEM-CARE), with the help of a community advisory board, composed of homeless female offenders (HFOs) and addiction staff; and finalize strategies which will be validated by focus group sessions with the HFOs. In Phase 2, the research team will randomize 130 HFOs participating in one of two residential drug treatment programs to assess the impact of the FEM-CARE or a Health Promotion control program on reduction of drug and alcohol use and recidivism. This study is based upon our team's history of promoting theoretically-based, culturally sensitive nurse-led interventions that are enriched with criminal justice theoretical perspectives, and have resulted in significant reductions in drug and alcohol use among homeless persons, many of whom have had a history of incarceration.

Specifically, the study aims are:

AIM 1) Guided by a Community Advisory Board (CAB) made up of HFOs and addiction staff, further conceptualize our community-based program, Female Ex-Offender Mentoring in Care (FEM-CARE), to address the needs and risks of HFOs enrolled in RDT programs, and then refine the program in focus group discussions with 12 HFOs.

AIM 2) Conduct a pilot RCT to assess the impact of the FEM-CARE program for 65 HFOs at six-month follow-up compared with 65 HFOs receiving a control Health Promotion (HP) program, in terms of a) self-reported and/or objective measures of drug and alcohol use; and b) prevalence of recidivism and number of days to first reincarceration.

Hypothesis 2a: HFOs in the FEM-CARE program will have less drug and alcohol use at six months than HFOs in the HP control program.

Hypothesis 2b: FEM-CARE HFOs will have a lower prevalence of recidivism by six months and greater number of days to first reincarceration than HP control HFOs.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* female parolees or probationers enrolled in a six-month program at one of two residential treatment (RDT) programs,
* convicted for a drug crime, and
* reported homeless on their RDT entry form

Exclusion Criteria:

* female parolees or probationers not currently enrolled in a six-month program at one of two residential treatment (RDT) programs,
* not recently convicted for a drug crime, and
* not reported homeless on their RDT entry form
B: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Meets DSM-IV criteria for opioid dependence
2. Age \> 18 years
3. Confirmed HIV infection, either through positive HIV antibody or detectable HIV-1 RNA level.
4. Within the Connecticut Department of Corrections (CTDOC) or Hampden County Correctional Center (HCCC) and within 30 days of being released to the greater New Haven, Hartford or Springfield areas or within 30 days after release from CTDOC or HCCC.
5. No participation in pharmacotherapy trial in the previous 30 days
6. Not pregnant

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Unable to provide informed consent
2. Verbally or physically threatening to research staff
3. Unable to communicate in either English or Spanish
4. Pending trials for a felony
5. Liver failure (Childs-Pugh Class B or C Cirrhosis)
6. Grade IV Hepatitis (liver function tests \> 10X normal)
7. Receiving opioid prescription narcotics or has pain syndrome necessitating future use of opioid prescription narcotics.
8. Receiving active methadone or buprenorphine/naloxone for the treatment of opioid dependency
9. Active opioid withdrawal (within 3-5 days since last opioid ingestion)
10. Pregnancy or unwilling to take contraceptives measures
11. Breast-feeding
C: Inclusion Criteria:

(a) Substance abuse or dependence disorder requiring outpatient treatment, and (b)after consulting with his or her attorney, the youth and family voluntarily agrees to enter juvenile drug court.

Exclusion Criteria:

(a) Their current offense is the sale of drugs, a gun offense, a violent offense, or sexual battery,(b) their current offense is likely to merit commitment to a secure or locked juvenile justice facility or (c) they have severe mental illness or retardation according to their intake MJDC evaluation.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals age 18 years old and older with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder as confirmed by the Mini International Psychiatric Inventory (MINI).
2. Individuals who are currently or have been recently homeless (within the past 12 months) as per the official federal definition of homelessness.
3. Known to have medication treatment adherence (20% or more missed medications in past week or past month) problems as identified by the Treatment Routines Questionnaire patient or clinician versions (TRQ-P/TRQ-C).
4. Ability to be rated on psychiatric rating scales.
5. Willingness to take long-acting injectable medication.
6. Currently receiving treatment at a Community Mental Health Clinic (CMHC) or another mental health treatment provider who is able to provide continuity of care during and after study participation.
7. Able to provide written, informed consent to study participation.
8. Women of child-bearing potential must be utilizing reliable, medically-accepted methods of birth control.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Known resistance or intolerance to haloperidol or haloperidol decanoate.
2. Medical contraindication to haloperidol or haloperidol decanoate.
3. Individuals on long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication immediately prior to study enrollment.
4. Prior or current treatment with clozapine.
5. Concurrent medical condition or psychiatric illness, which in the opinion of the research psychiatrist, would interfere with the patient's ability to participate in the trial.
6. Current substance dependence.
7. High risk of harm to self or others.
8. Female who is currently pregnant or breastfeeding.
9. Individual who is already in permanent and supported housing that includes comprehensive mental health services (e.g. Housing First).

Answer: A