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Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience

Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience. Criminal Justice Research Division Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat dmu@sandag.org www.sandag.org/cj October 16, 2008. Presentation Overview. Background on SANDAG and CJRD Description of SB 618 Program

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Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience

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  1. Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience Criminal Justice Research Division Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat dmu@sandag.org www.sandag.org/cj October 16, 2008

  2. Presentation Overview • Background on SANDAG and CJRD • Description of SB 618 Program • Overview of Evaluation Design • Use of Assessments • Preliminary Assessment Data

  3. What is SANDAG? • San Diego Association of Governments • Regional planning and implementation agency for quality of life issues • Governed by a Board of Directors representing the region’s 19 local governments • Only council of governments with a Criminal Justice Research Division

  4. Program Description • Assessment • Process Begins Pre-Sentence • Life Plan • Multi-Disciplinary Team • Case Management In Custody & Community • In-Prison & Community Services • Community Roundtable

  5. Assessment Tools • Addiction Severity Index (ASI) • Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE) • Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) • Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) • Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and Myers-Briggs

  6. Research Overview • Process Evaluation: Determine if SB 618 was implemented as planned in San Diego County • Impact Assessment: Determine what effect(s) the SB 618 program had on participants

  7. Multiple Methodologies • Meeting attendance and review of minutes • Analysis of standardized assessment information • Compilation of services received in prison and community • Program partner, key staff, and community surveys • Client & family/friend satisfaction questionnaires • Follow-up interviews with clients • Collection of recidivism data from local and state databases • Cost-effectiveness analysis

  8. Participant Characteristics

  9. Participant Characteristics (cont.)

  10. Needs: ASI Substance Abuse • 52% Drank Alcohol • 67% to Point of Intoxication • 81% Use Drugs • 52% Used Multiple Drugs • 53% Used Methamphetamines • 51% Used Marijuana • 49% Previous Drug Treatment

  11. Needs: ASI Social Supports

  12. Needs: ASI Abuse History

  13. Needs: ASI Severity Index

  14. Needs: TABE & CASAS

  15. Summary • High Level of Drug Treatment Needs • High Level of Education and Life Skills • Vocational Needs • Need for Social Supports

  16. Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience Criminal Justice Research Division Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat dmu@sandag.org www.sandag.org/cj October 16, 2008

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