July 15, 2020
Supporting people in prison to create something beautiful during a dark and difficult time is how UBC School of Nursing associate professor Dr. Helen Brown and her team describe their new program to deliver “art and reciprocity kits” to people disproportionately impacted by the Canadian criminal justice system.
The kits were distributed across two medium-security federal prisons, five halfway houses and selected urban Indigenous community members across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Region beginning in July 2020.
Below is the UBC Release and media attention it received.
NOTE: The research team raised concerns about the stigmatizing language used by many media outlets in reporting on this story. Members of the research team have expressed appreciation for the article in The Tyee as a model of respectful language in journalistic reporting of this story.
The Tyee - Interview with Elder Roberta Price
Funding Announcement | October 21, 2020
