In 2024, Land Together and Amend at UCSF began planning a first-of-its-kind collaborative project at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, bringing together two organizations with deep roots in prison health and healing. Amend at UCSF is a public health and human rights program based at the University of California San Francisco that works inside prisons to reduce their harmful effects on residents and staff, advance decarceration, and transform prison culture through evidence-based, health-focused approaches.
Launched in 2025, Amend Together is a multi-disciplinary initiative that draws on the expertise of Land Together program alumni, Resource Team members, recreational therapists, and mental health staff to investigate how Land Together's garden and ecotherapy curriculum can serve as healing interventions for high-need individuals on the yard.
At the heart of the project are Land Together's Program Alumni, who serve as peer advisors, bringing firsthand knowledge of the transformative power of land-based healing to their work alongside clinical and therapeutic staff. Together, this team is exploring how connection to nature, hands-on growing, and ecotherapy practices can support the wellbeing of people with complex needs inside a correctional setting.
