Christine Daniel
Executive Director of Transitional Healthcare, Indiana Department of Correction, USA
Christine Daniel is the Executive Director of Transitional Healthcare within the Medical Division at the Indiana Department of Correction. Christine earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a focus on organizational development and change and process improvement. Christine previously held positions within a large community mental health center in Indiana with a focus on serious mental illness, homelessness, and co-occurring disorders. Christine began her correctional career as a Parole Reentry Liaison and later the Regional Director of Reentry, leading initiatives with state agencies and community-based providers to develop relationships and protocols for successful reentry and recidivism reduction, evolving into what is currently Transitional Healthcare. In 2019, Christine brought Transitional Healthcare to the Medical Division at Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) focusing on addressing social determinants of health for releasing persons and special populations using a medical model. Program development and implementation includes growing IDOC Transitional Healthcare staff, Facilitators and Liaisons, inside IDOC facilities and embedded in parole districts statewide for a complete continuum of care, individualized and integrated release planning, Narcan at release, access to healthcare coverage at release for all incarcerated persons, and decreased recidivism for seriously mental ill persons. Most notably was the re-structure of the Officer Breann Leath Memorial Maternal Child Health Unit at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Restructuring included changes to selection criteria, increased physical capacity of unit, enhanced focus on attachment, development and milestones, onsite wellness clinic with a dedicated pediatrician, building a multi-disciplinary team of subject matter experts and partnership with Indiana School of Public Health and Mothers on the Rise.
