Division Director,
Health Services
Vacant

Health Services

Health Services

Consistent with community standards the Health Services Division provides quality care and services responsive to the offender population to include: medical services, mental health services, dental care, primary nursing care, and pharmacy services. Keeping offenders healthy is the basic platform from which the offender is prepared and supported to successfully complete basic education, work skills and experience, and recreational and leisure skills essential to building good citizenship and self-sufficiency. The Health Services Bureau also assists inmates in learning to develop and sustain personal wellness through ongoing education designed to augment healthy living while diminishing life-style habits that can lead to poor health and a decreased quality of life.

The Mental Health (MH) program seeks to optimize inmate mental health functioning in order to reduce psychological distress and impairment. By facilitating mental wellness, inmates have a better chance to successfully participate in ADC programming that prepares them for reintegration into their communities as civil and productive ex-offenders. Additionally, ADC seeks to educate mentally disordered offenders so that they become knowledgeable consumers of post-release community mental health services and to establish continuity of mental health services upon release, thus reducing their risk of relapse, revocation and recidivism.

Addiction Treatment Services(ATS) employs licensed substance abuse counselors who provide intensive and moderate programs using evidence-based curricula in a cognitive behavioral treatment approach with the goal of producing long-term change to increase the quality of life and reduce substance abuse and recidivism.  Services are currently offered at nine of the ten prison complexes.

The Sex Offender Education Treatment Program (SOETP) is based on a cognitive behavioral and relapse prevention model of assessment and treatment.  Evidence-based treatment and best practices assist the offender in managing sexually exploitative behavior, thereby reducing the risk of re-offending.