2025 ACA Winter Conference Orlando_Program Book

approaches in their own jurisdictions, supporting sustainable employment opportunities for those under supervision and creating safer communities. Primary Presenter: Scott E. Peyton , Director, Government Affairs, Prison Fellowship, Washington, Louisiana Presenter 2: Robert Vehock , Program Manager — Office of Reentry and Education, Department of Public Safety and Corrections (Louisiana), Baton Rouge, Louisiana Presenter 3: Jessica Byrd , Director of Workforce Strategy, Department of Public Safety & Corrections (Louisiana), Baton Rouge, Louisiana The ACA Project ECHO: Sharing Knowledge Among Healthcare Professionals in Prisons and Jails (CME) Room W230 B Please Note: The ECHO presentation will include CME at no cost to participants. Overview: ALL TEACH/ALL LEARN reflects the belief that in a carefully designed educational interchange, all can both learn and teach. That is the primary underlying concept driving ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) distance learning. The ECHO model, initially developed at the University of New Mexico to provide educational support to providers in rural communities without access to specialists for treating hepatitis C patients, has been expanded to a broad variety of medical and other learning settings. The Office of Correctional Health (OCH) recently received a contract award from

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to build a nationwide ECHO platform to aid in the dissemination of knowledge between healthcare professionals in America’s prisons and jails. This will enable providers in these settings to learn from peers and specialists to enhance their medical skills regarding HCV care and, should the opportunity arise, participate directly in an HCV elimination program. This presentation describes the ECHO model and plans for implementation. It will also provide opportunities for correctional healthcare personnel and others to give input on how they might like the ACA correctional ECHO Project to help them manage their patients. Learning Objectives: • Explain in detail what the ECHO Project is and how it has been implemented in many different healthcare and other settings including U.S. prisons and jails to facilitate distance knowledge transfer and learning. • Describe in detail the basic structure of the hepatitis C ACA ECHO Project and understand its benefits and how to become a part of it. Participants will also learn how the ACA ECHO Project will be implemented in prisons and jails to enhance the treatment of patients with HCV infection. • Describe several of the unique features of HCV disease in the community and the correctional environment and what the newest directions in treatment opportunities exist including the potential for a national eradication program that confinement facilities could participate with.

Saturday, Jan. 11 ▼ 1–2:30 p.m.

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