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Status update on supervised release, ATI funding, and reentry services
2:00:27
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Council Member Sandy Nurse questioned Director Deanna Logan about the status of various initiatives marked as 'done with ongoing work'. Logan explained the continuous assessment and improvement process, particularly for supervised release.
- MOCJ is continuously assessing and improving services like supervised release
- An intensive case management pilot program was introduced for struggling participants in supervised release
- The pilot program uses a clinical model to compare outcomes between treated and untreated groups
Sandy Nurse
2:00:27
status update for the points of agreement to expand and fund supervised release and other pretrial services, and increase ATI funding to reduce the number of people serving city sentences as much as possible, and the enhanced reentry and discharge planning services available to everyone leaving jails, and the expand correctional health services discharge planning and reentry services for people with serious health needs leaving city jails, is they're all noted as done with ongoing work.
2:00:59
Can you tell us what done with ongoing work means as a assessment statement?
Deanna Logan
2:01:08
Currently all of the agencies, Correctional Health, MACJ, are working to ensure that those services are being delivered.
2:01:15
Ongoing work means that as we're delivering the services, we are continuing to assess them and figure out where we can and should be adding additional pieces.
2:01:26
For example, when we talk about supervised release.
2:01:29
Supervised release continuously assessed, realized that there were individuals who were still failing in supervised release.
2:01:37
The majority of people eighty percent doing fantastically, twenty percent of the people were struggling, and as we looked at that, what did we need to do?
2:01:47
We worked with our partners, especially those that were delivering services to identify not only the criteria of the people who fell into that bucket of people who were struggling, but what they and we based on the data thought needed to happen for them.
2:02:01
Hence the intensive case management that is now another portion of supervised release.
2:02:07
It's a pilot program that essentially looks at those people that are struggling the most in supervised release, and we created a clinical type model of study, which means that there are individuals who meet the criteria of struggling.
2:02:22
Those individuals are then picked up on treatment days and other people are not.
2:02:27
So it is the same as a drug trial for a lack of a better term, where some people are getting the actual drug and some people are getting the placebo, and we are seeing very promising results with the individuals that are being cared for in a smaller caseload with clinicians who have significantly more training.