Change Centers by CHC
CHC has developed a continuum of services designed specifically to address the needs of criminal justice agencies and offender populations it serves: prosecutors, courts probation departments, jail systems, parole agencies and mentally ill offenders. Our “one-stop” community correction services offices, known as Change Centers by CHC, deliver a full range of essential programs designed to interrupt an offender’s pattern of criminality. Change Centers facilitate behavior change by providing a specific mix of supervision services and treatment programs that target the major criminogenic risk factors. All Change Center programs are designed using the latest in evidenced-based practices and programming services.
Our team is comprised of industry leaders that helped create the successful day reporting center concept used throughout the country today. This combination intensive supervision and treatment model, using evidence-based programming, has proven to reduce recidivism and address the issues facing corrections agencies throughout the US.
We’ve designed Change Center programs for prosecution diversion programs, court, pre-trial, and probation services, alternatives to incarceration programs for jail systems, intensive parolee re-entry programs, and the mentally ill offender (MIO) populations. Additionally, we can customize a Change Center that provides all of the services you, your agency, and your offenders require.
Prosecutors Diversion Change Center
Prosecution Diversion programs provide state, county, and municipal prosecutors with programs to reduce the numbers of young, lower-risk, and first-time defendants from entering the criminal justice system. At CHC, our prosecution diversion change centers use specialized evidence-based programs to divert first-time offenders from the system, including those with short-check, petty theft, prostitution, and certain traffic offenses.
Court & Probation Services Change Center
For direct services that allow for faster disposition of cases, CHC provides basic probation services and treatment program referrals that judges, drug courts, and probation departments use to encourage successful completion of court orders to reduce probation failure. Supervision services include drug and alcohol testing, electronic monitoring services, and the collection of court fines and fees.
Evidence-based behavior-change programs include, specialized drug court treatment programs, certified substance abuse and DUI treatment services, cognitive skills training programs, domestic violence prevention programs, fraud and theft treatment services, violence reduction programs, and traffic offense programs.
Alternative to Jail Incarceration (ATI) Change Center
As an alternative to jail incarceration, CHC offers full-service ATI change centers that serve high-risk offenders living in the community. Such programs have reduced overcrowding of jails and prisons, and dramatically reduced recidivism rates in high-needs offenders.
These programs provide judges, sheriffs, and probation departments with a cost-effective way address chronic criminal behavior through a community-based program that includes:
· Intensive case management,
· Daily reporting to the change center,
· Complete assessment and treatment planning,
· Drug and alcohol testing, substance abuse treatment services
· Cognitive skills program,
· Employment readiness services.
The CHC ATI change centers offer a safe and effective method to divert an offender from going on to jail or prison for failing traditional community programs.
Parolee Re-entry Change Center
To help stop parolee failure and prison overcrowding, parole departments use CHC parolee re-entry change centers to provide direct-impact services to parolees. Our centers help to meet the challenge of the increasing numbers of ill-prepared and high-risk offenders are entering our communities from prison; many return to prison in a matter of months.
Combining intensive supervision services, cognitive behavioral treatment services, and employment readiness services, CHC parolee re-entry change centers give parolees the tools they need to be successful, while providing the public with greater assurance that these high-needs individuals can safely return to the community. Our CHC re-entry change centers reduce recidivism and can help parolees rejoin their communities and families.
Mentally Ill Offender Change Center
Mentally ill offenders (MIO) are becoming an increasingly serious community problem - their illnesses, many times, contribute to criminal behavior. Often, the criminal justice response, for lack of community alternatives, is to place them in jail. Many mentally ill offenders can lead safe and productive lives in the community when they are properly managed through intensive case management, medication management, and specific MIO treatment programming services. The CHC MIO change center provides these services to county and state corrections systems to help manage these high-risk, high-needs offenders living in the community.
Contact us today if you would like to discuss setting up a change center to meet your community correctional needs today.