Recidivism

The Illinois Department of Corrections hosted?a Life Skills/Re-Entry Charette.
What is a Charette? An intense period of design or planning activity
What are we designing? The nation's first large scale life skills/re-entry program in an institution setting.
What has IDOC done on the Life-Skills/Re-Entry Program to date?
1. Identified Kewanee Correctional Center and Logan Correctional Center as our two pilot sites.
2. Identified, in broad terms, a program structure and objectives.

The Illinois Department of Corrections hosted a Life Skills/Re-Entry Charette on October 13, 2016. Prior to attending this event, CSG JC staff visited Sheridan Correctional Center, which is a pilot site for the IDOC SRR Implementation grant.
Staff observed one of the grant funded?Social Workers conduct a full screen using the SPIN tool and monitored the tools administration based on fidelity to EBP's. CSG staff also had the opportunity to meet the SIU research assistant working with Dr. Kroner and utilizing the RNR Simulation Tool to assess IDOC's programs and services.

Wisconsin IRES pilot project quarterly site visit to discuss implementation activities, present information on implementation progress and strategize next steps for the project. strategize next steps to implementing recommendations to make assessment-informed referrals to institutional-based programming, modify and expand current programming to meet the needs of correctional population and identify a coordinated process for making service referrals to community-based agencies providing workforce services.

CSG Justice Center staff provided on-site TA to VT DOC staff with a focus on realigning correctional culture with EBP's and improving Vermont's corrections system to improve the success of returning individuals and the community.
Roger Werholtz provided an overview of the organizational changes in Vermont DOC. Carrying out system-wide change requires anticipating resistance, committing to quality, and acknowledging how difficult this change can be for staff. New practices will eventually become second nature to staff

CSG JC staff developed a cohesive picture of the grantee mentoring program, including: an overview of the program, mission and current activities, previous work conducted, and understanding of the program's current challenges and barriers.

The Urban/Manatt team developed three written products that offer the country's criminal justice and Medicaid agencies information to help the justice-involved population receive health coverage and coordinated and comprehensive care, leverage available federal resources in a sustainable and responsible way, and document the results of these efforts.

During this period, the Urban/Manatt team worked with each site to enhance its data collection and analytic capacity building. The Urban Institute delivered a performance measurement presentation to both site coordinators. The presentation was intended to improve the sites' understanding of performance measurement and management and to help them identify possible outcomes and metrics they could use to evaluate the impact of the proposals they implement.

Throughout the project period, the Urban/Manatt team coordinated with the Bureau of Justice Assistance consistent with the cooperative agreement structure.

The Learning Collaborative Model is an approach designed to bring together practitioners on a set of common priority problems in order to learn promising and innovative strategies from expert faculty and one another. Through the model, expert faculty convene teams from different states and local municipalities for several facilitated calls, or "learning sessions," intended to accelerate the implementation, testing, and evaluation of promising practices, resulting in the rapid development of practical tools and strategies, between sessions.