Health Promotion Grant Application for Prisoners in Western Australia

Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION GRANT APPLICATION
HEALTH PROMOTION GRANT APPLICATION
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Executive Summary
The wide spread use of illicit injectable drugs have been found to increasing upon the prisoners
of Western Australia. The use of drugs not only delays their rehabilitation period, but also
deteriorates the quality of life after the commencement of the period of imprisonment. One of the
potential risk of using injectable drugs are the transmission of the blood borne infections like
HIV, HCV and hepatitis A,B and C. This grant application is to provide a better life to the
prisoners, to add on some reforms to the current needle and syringe programs, to provide them
with health literacy regarding the use of the drugs and the preventive measures against the
infections. This grant application has put down a set of smart goals with the probable time frame
and the budgeting. Furthermore information about the stakeholders involved and the evaluation
technique has also been provided.

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Table of Contents
Assignment 2– Health Promotion Grant application.......................................................................3
Project title:......................................................................................................................................3
Population and Health Issue............................................................................................................3
Project description...........................................................................................................................4
SMART Objectives.........................................................................................................................6
Strategies..........................................................................................................................................8
Budget estimation............................................................................................................................9
Time estimation (Grant Chart).......................................................................................................10
Evaluation......................................................................................................................................12
Working in partnership with others...............................................................................................12
Sustainability.................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Assignment 2– Health Promotion Grant application
Project title: Health promotion grant application -prisoners in Western Australia
Population and Health Issue
Users of illicit drugs represent a vast number of prisoner populations. Internationally,
about 10-48 % of male and 30-65% of the female prisoners have been using illicit drugs in the
month before entering the prison. In an Australian study, PWID has reported an average of 8
imprisonments (Dolan et al., 2015). The repetitive and the rampant use of the drug users have
been found to be the key reason for the continuous growth of the prison population. As per the
NSW Inmate health survey in the year 2001, about 74 percent of the female and 67 % of the
male inmates were found to be using illicit drugs (Dolan & Rodas, 2014). In spite of all the
restrictions and security drugs are being smuggled inside the Australian prison.
As per the reports the prison population in Australia with substance abuse problems has
risen from 33% to 43 % within the year 2010- 2016 and the offenders who are drug dependant
are likely to return to the prison than the other prisoners (Dolan et al., 2015). In Australia about
85% of the inmates who are heroin dependants have been incarcerated within two years of
release compared to the other prisoners (Dolan & Rodas, 2014).
The most alarming thing is that the issue of sharing the same needle for the uptake of the
illicit drugs is real. One of the dangerous effect of the use of drugs inside the prison is needle
sharing (Dolan & Rodas, 2014). Sharing of needles while taking illicit drugs is increasing the
chance of diseases like HIV and hepatitis. In Western Australia the HIV prevalence among the