179. Abstract: Ohio ’s Community-Oriented Reentry Program
URL - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reentry/sar/pdf/wp1_oh.pdf
Abstract
The State of Ohio’s Community-Oriented Reentry program, referred to as CORE, is a comprehensive, collaborative, and holistic approach to enabling serious, violent, high-risk and high need adult offenders (aged 18-35) in state correctional facilities to successfully return to their communities and families after having served at least twelve consecutive months in confinement. The CORE model focuses on linking the State’s Departments of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Jobs and Family Services, Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, Education and the Office of Criminal Justice Services with corresponding governmental and service provider partners in two of the state’s largest urban areas (Cuyahoga and Franklin counties) and one suburban/rural site (Allen County) to assist offenders returning home avoid recidivism, find stable housing, receive substance abuse and mental health treatment, sustain long-term employment, reunite with their families, and become productive law-abiding citizens in their communities.
The CORE program works by systemically linking offenders to services in the community that augment the services provided within the institution. The CORE program seeks to provide a continuity of treatment thereby maximizing the capacity of each offender to more fully integrate back in returning home. Reentry Management Teams and Community Reentry Coordinators will assess offender needs and develop individual reentry plans prior to release. The teams will share information, and coordinate service delivery. Program outcomes will be facilitated, tracked and continuously refined by Reentry Steering Committees made up of individuals at both the state and local levels, whose organizations will have the highest stakes in offenders’ success in the community.
225. Reentry Courts Process Evaluation (Phase 1), Final Report
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/202472.pdf
October 2003
Authors: Christine Lindquist, Jennifer Hardison, Pamela K. Lattimore
This report presents the results of Phase 1 of the RCI Process Evaluation. In the following chapter, we discuss reentry issues that provided the impetus for the RCI and describe the RCI in detail. Chapter 3 provides core programmatic information for all nine sites, including: program status, target populations, organization and operations, services provided, key agencies involved, and barriers encountered. Chapter 4 presents detailed program descriptions and logic models for the three sites selected for more indepth study. Finally, the report concludes with a summary of key findings and a discussion of issues for further consideration
