coe-staff: Dr. Chronister's ACCESS program adopted by the Federal Bureau of Prisons

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,

I am pleased to report that Krista's work will now receive even wider adoption and testing.  Please see the description of the program below and its scale up.  This work is an impressive example of the length of time it takes to create something of trusted utility.  I applaud Krista and all of our faculty for the tenacity that is a trademark of the work of our college.

Krista's ACCESS program is truly unique, especially her focus on improving the lives of women victimized by partner violence, as are her adaptations to improve cultural relevancy.

Congratulations!

Randy



The Federal Bureau of Prisons includes 28 facilities housing women, and these facilities offer a variety of treatment services to help women build life skills and successfully return to the community. ACCESS, an intervention program developed by Dr. Krista Chronister of the College of Education at the University of Oregon, is one of a series of gender-responsive programs identified for implementation by the agency.  Dr. Chronister will experimentally test the effectiveness of ACCESS at five prison sites and work with additional facilities across the country to ensure program fidelity.  With nearly 75% of women offenders reporting experiences of partner violence (ACLU, 2015), ACCESS has the potential to improve the lives of women who are at the highest risk for violence revictimization and poverty.


ACCESS is a brief preventive intervention (Chronister, 2006, 2013) designed to foster violence survivors’ vocational and life skills development and rehabilitation. Dr. Chronister has spent the past 15 years working with community-based agencies to test the effectiveness of the ACCESS intervention with women survivors of partner violence. Her work also includes a culturally-adapted, Spanish language version of ACCESS and an adapted version for male offenders (OPTIONS; Fitzgerald & Chronister, 2012, 2016). ​


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