Kris Hall, MFA
Program Manager
University of New England
Kris Hall, MFA: Program Manager for the Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education at UNE, providing university-wide opportunities for students to learn with, from, and about each other. She has also served as the Program Manager for a SAMHSA funded grant to teach Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment for substance use disorders to students, faculty, and community partners from eight health professions. As part of a faculty team, she has given national and international presentations and published on the Interprofessional Team Immersion (IPTI), a co-curricular resource designed in response to student requests for small, interactive, cross-professional learning experiences.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

An interprofessional team of students with faculty support have developed harm reduction re-entry kits for residents leaving the county jail. Resident focus groups and advice from corrections staff informed the inventory for the bags. It is estimated that one in every two residents leaving incarceration have mental health concerns, with two in five men and three in five women reporting having a combination of physical, mental, and substance use disorder (SUD) (James & Glaze, 2006, as cited in La Vigne et al., 2008: Mallik-Kane & Visher, 2008, as cited in La Vigne et al., 2008).…