NC TASC Effective Case Management for Improved Offender System Outcomes September 30, 2004 Annapolis, Maryland

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NC TASC Effective Case Management for Improved Offender & System Outcomes September 30, 2004 Annapolis, Maryland

Structured Sentencing Act Truthful & predictable sentencing that projects asset needs Established 3 types of discipline Established statutory continuum of assents Eliminated optional parole Established model for coordinating sentences & resources SSA-related Expansions Largest Expansion of probation assets in 60 year history - 900+ positions Enhanced TASC Expansion - 1.8 mil established 13 new projects

Type of Punishment Imposed Felonies In 1993, Average Sentence served - 16 Months Under SSA, Average Sentence served - 34 Months * SOURCE: NC Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission ** SOURCE: 1993 Pre-Structured Sentencing Data

NC Problem Statement Use of criminal equity & treatment assets Complex customers: testing behavioral wellbeing needs & genuine results of disappointment Recidivism & backslide are basic Unmanaged cases, unfamiliar results Service accessibility & viability Prison pop  guilty parties entering group in expanding numbers  different unsuccessful tx & jail confirmations Budget setbacks & no developments Need choices to enhance access to & maintenance in treatment, while saving open security

Evolving Solution Our Common Goal: Safely oversee high-chance, high-require wrongdoers in the group Treatment System Needs: Less dependence on foundations Better asset usage & administration Increased people group limit Effective treatment, intercessions & case administration Justice System Needs: Effective & accessible care Regular correspondence Offender & treatment responsibility

OFFENDER MANAGEMENT MODEL OMM ONE OFFENDER - ONE CASE PLAN - ONE TEAM DHHS DOC TASC DCC Balances Intervention Opportunities gave through DMHDDSAS & Controlled Supervision gave through DCC

NC Offender Management Model Target Population I Punishment, C Punishments at-hazard for Revocation, Post-Releasees who finished a jail tx program Standard TASC Screening & Assessment Individual Case Planning by Probation & TASC Control, Care & Service Management Team staffings with shared basic leadership between Probation & TASC

North Carolina Criminal Justice Planning Flow Chart Arrest Pre-Trial Hearing Pre-Sentence Hearing Trial/Sentencing Div of Prisons/Post-Release Div of Community Corrections Referred to Other Services NC Offender Management Model (OMM) Clinical Assessment CBI Employment Mental Health Services Individualized Case Plan Education/Voc Training Transportation Substance Abuse Svcs Housing/Food/Clothing Medical Services EXIT MODEL Continuous Case Management and Case Staffing Figure 1. NC Criminal Justice Flow Chart

NC Continuum of Sanctions, Supervision & Care Split Sentence Community Detention Drug Court Enhanced Intensive Residential Tx House Arrest Day Reporting Center Enhanced Traditional Probation Contempt of Court (all supervision & tx levels) Cost & Intensity Cost & Intensity Cost & Intensity Level 1 Care Management w/Tx Level 6 & Aftercare Services Intermediate I Punishment Post-Release C Failures Sex Offenders Domestic Violence High Risk/High Need DWIs No Tx Therapeutic Community Residential Tx Intensive Outpatient Tx Level 1, 2 or 3 Care Management w/Tx Level 4 or 5 Level 1 or 2 Care Management w/Tx Level 3 Level 1 Care Management w/Tx Level 2 Community C Punishment Unsupervised Failures Low Risk/Low Need DWIs PSIs & Targeting for Courts Outpatient Treatment Education & Urinalysis Traditional Probation Deferred Prosecution Treatment Matching Assessment Screening No Treatment TASC SANCTIONS TREATMENT SUPERVISION

Objectives of OMM Seamless arrangement of watch over the arrangement of administrations to guilty parties, enhancing access to treatment for equity customers Clarify parts & duties in giving control & treatment, disposing of duplication Target constrained assets to the right customers: Combine endeavors to ensure powerful usage of constrained assets with a group approach & shared basic leadership Emphasize quality over amount Develop facilitated data frameworks Ensure staff are prepared to actualize the OMM Reduce rates of disavowal for specialized & tranquilize infringement, while expanding responsibility & group security Increase productivity & enhance customer results

Philosophy & Principles Processes & Policies & Protocols Programs Developing & Maintaining an Integrated Approach

ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION Convergence of requirements Commitment - shared regard, understanding & trust Vision - shared mission; shared destinations & methodologies Willingness to reexamine strategies/methodology Communication - impart w/& include staff Resources - duty of money related & human Regular gatherings w/different support bringing about decisions (every single key framework & the right individuals) Clearly characterized parts & obligations Information & a typical dialect On-going oversight w/consistent input to a counseling bunch Formal Service Agreements - conventions & MOUs Formalized framework for strife determination

CHALLENGES TO SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION Separate Systems with Seemingly Disparate Goals Competitive Markets Lack of/Limited Communication Duplicative Services Revolving Door Treatment & Correctional Systems Inadequate Funding Limited Number of Service Providers Limited Service Capacity, incorporating Limited Effective Services practically speaking Restricted Availability of specific Levels of Care & excess of different Levels of Care Limited Specialized Services Insufficient Aftercare & Transition Services

The Bottom Line What do you need? What do your accomplices need? Recognize assets to be shared Establish normal settings for correspondence & critical thinking

What is TASC? A program demonstrate & strategy that scaffolds two separate frameworks: equity & treatment. The equity framework's lawful authorizations reflect group attentiveness toward open security, while treatment accentuates restorative connections as a methods for evolving conduct.

TASC Core Services Screening & Clinical Assessment Service Determination & Referral Care Planning, Coordination & Management Reporting to Justice System

Strategic Individualized Case Planning Other Services Treatment Referral Other Services Monitoring Reporting to Referral Source TASC Care Management Model Comprehensive Clinical Assessment

TASC Person-Centered Client Flow Client alluded out No Services Needed Services Refused Non-TASC Services Needed TASC Care Management TASC Eligibility Determination Service Screening High-Risk High-Need Client Reporting, Monitoring Assessment Person Centered Planning Referral to Services Client Identification Low-Risk, Low-Need Client Referral to intercession Referral to different administrations TASC reporting

TASC Key Concepts Facilitates correspondence between frameworks Based on clinical & bolster needs, not just medicinal need Develops & keeps up linkages with an assortment of group assets Incorporates equity framework dialect & objectives Balances control & treatment Active connections - customer, probation, treatment, group administrations Utilizes the impact of lawful approvals to draw in & hold guilty parties in treatment Positive result situated for customers, and in addition treatment & equity frameworks

TASC Nationally 1962 - Robinson v. California - dependence is a sickness, not a wrongdoing 1970s - Federal government creates model to interfere with medication wrongdoing cycle - Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime 1972 - first TASC program in Wilmington, Delaware 2000 - Over 150 individual TASC programs in 32 states

National TASC Critical Elements 1) Process to facilitate equity, treatment & different frameworks 2) Procedures for giving data & broadly educating to equity, treatment & different frameworks System Coordination Elements

Organizational Elements 3 & 4) Broad bases of support from equity & treatment frameworks, with systematized frameworks for viable correspondence 5) Organizational honesty 6) Policies & techniques for normal staff preparing 7) MIS with a program assessment outline

Operational Elements 8) Clearly characterized customer qualification 9) Client-focused case administration 10) Screening methodology to distinguish justice framework hopefuls 11) Assessment & referral strategies 12) Policies & techniques for observing drug & liquor use through testing 13) Competency with assorted populaces

For more data about TASC broadly, visit the National TASC site at www.nationaltasc.org

In NC, TASC is managed by the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Substance Abuse Services, through private NPOs & open MH Centers. NC TASC viably & productively interfaces treatment & equity objectives of diminished medication utilize & criminal action through procedures that expansion treatment get to, engagement & maintenance.

TASC in North Carolina 1978 - First TASC Programs in NC 1993 - 10 Programs in 20 Counties 1994 - Enhanced TASC (SSA) 1998 - 23 Programs in 43 Counties 2002 - TASC administrations accessible in every one of the 100 provinces 2003 - TASC Training Institute

Goal for NC TASC Equitable statewide access to a standard of TASC administrations in the most financially savvy, convenient & authoritatively effective way, predictable with the brought together court & statewide probation frameworks .:tsli