Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidance
- Respiratory Virus Guidance
- Detection and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities Funding Guidance is the governing document that outlines funding requirements, allowable costs, and required and optional activities.
Reports, Guidance, and Toolkits
COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities: A BJA CDMCF TTA Educational Resource
October 2024
This peer-to-peer education guide provides a resource for corrections agencies and confinement facility administrators and staff to meet the challenges of educating individuals who are incarcerated in their facilities about COVID-19 and general health literacy through a peer education approach. The guide features a case study on the New Mexico Peer Education Project from Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes as a best practice example of working in the New Mexico Corrections Department.
Planning for Respiratory Pathogen Pandemics: A Guidebook for Corrections Systems and Confinement Facilities
October 2024
This guidebook for corrections systems and confinement facilities identifies key components and elements of respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness that confinement agencies and confinement facilities should consider when planning for a pandemic incident, specifically one where infection is spread by infectious respiratory particles.
What Public Health Needs to Know About Corrections / What Corrections Need to Know About Public Health
July 2024
Correctional facilities face many unique challenges during a public health emergency. This graphic provides public health a glimpse into the unique considerations for collaborating with corrections and provides guidance to correctional facilities on how to collaborate with state public health agencies and local public health departments.
Pandemic Toolkit: Resources from the COVID-19 Response in Confinement Facilities
June 2024
The purpose of the Pandemic Toolkit is to provide guidance and an archive of resources on the effective management and mitigation of infectious airborne disease within confinement settings.
What Emergency Management Needs to Know about Corrections / What Corrections Needs to Know about Emergency Management
February 2024
This graphic provides emergency managers a glimpse into the unique considerations for collaborating with corrections and provides corrections with guidance on why and how to collaborate with emergency management.
Peer Groups
The CDMCF TTA Center runs four peer groups that provide information sharing on COVID-related topics: Public Health Peer Group (for CDMCF ELC award recipients), Adult Prisons Peer Group, Jails Peer Group, and Juvenile Facilities Peer Group.
The peer groups:
- Cover relevant topics, such as the impact of the end to the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
- Identify challenges with program execution and mitigation strategies.
- Discuss challenges with ongoing mitigation strategies.
- Help facilitate and foster networking opportunities.
The groups meet quarterly. If you are interested in joining the next peer group meeting, please send an email to [email protected] and note which group you would like to join.
Webinars
Recordings, presentation slides, and other webinar materials are available at the links below:
- CDC Respiratory Virus Guidance: What it Means for Correctional & Detention Facilities (March 2024)
- Office Hours: End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (May 2023)
- An Innovative Approach to Detect and Mitigate COVID-19 in New York State Local Jails (April 2023)
- Detection and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities: Introductory Webinar for Confinement Facilities (January 2023)
- Detection and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities: Introductory Webinar for Health Departments (November 2022)
- Detection and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities Award Updates (September 2022) includes a panel discussion featuring CDMCF funding recipients from Washington, California, and Minnesota in how to reach local jails.
- COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities: Updates to CDC Guidance and Available Funding (July 2022)