ICPA Standard in Prison Health Training Workshop in Timisoara, Romania

Elizabeth F. Gondles, Ph.D., has served the last nine presidents of the American Correctional Association as healthcare advisor and now as special issues advisor. Gondles created ACA’s Office of Correctional Health Care. From 1999 to 2003, Gondles was the project director for ACA’s national program on the development of performance-based standards. In addition, she served on the committee for the development of national core jail standards and for the international core standards. She has performed technical assistance and training both in security and treatment. She has served on several ACA committees and subcommittees. Gondles currently serves and directs the national program of healthcare for Certification of Correctional Professionals. In addition, Gondles is one of the founding member of ACA’s Coalition of Correctional Health Authorities (CCHA). She has presented at United Nations conferences on quality correctional management. Dr. Gondles’ has established ACA in international training and technical assistance. Her work in healthcare and in international corrections has contributed significant expansion to ACA through un-restricted educational grants, co-operative agreements, training and accreditation contracts, and fees for certification and other ACA services.

John May is a physician in Internal Medicine, practicing correctional health care for more than 20 years. He is the co-founder and president of Health through Walls, a non-governmental organization that provides support to prison health programs in low income countries, and Chief Medical Officer of Armor Correctional Health Services in Miami. John is also Chair of the ICPA Healthcare Network.

Co-founder of Health through Walls, MARK C. ANDREWS graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Masters in Education in the fields of Mental Health Counseling and Rehabilitation Counseling. Andrews worked for several years as a counselor with foster children and troubled youth. His main focus has been the study of the prevention of recidivism and promotion of rehabilitation in a counseling setting. His interest in prisoner welfare led him in 2005 to co-found Health through Walls, Inc., and serve as the Secretary/Treasurer as the organization has grown.

I was born in Lugoj, Romania  in 1962. I graduated from Colegiul Banatean High School and I studied at West University in Timisoara Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. In 1992 I have open my accounting company and in the same time, together with other 4 friends we build up on NGO working in social fields. Although, I am economist as background, I have always been attracted by the NGO sector, developing programs and projects, teaching and training.In 2004 I start my study in Dialogical training methods, under umbrella of University of Leipzig. In 2005 I founded the Association Center for Promoting Ligelong Learning and until today, together with my team, we are running around 85 European projects on different topics and for different target groups. I am master trainer in Dialogical methods and I developed training programmes and projects on this subject.