Through full
programming of ADC offenders the
Programs Division intends to
contribute to putting a dent in
Arizona's relapse, revocation, and
recidivism data by the end of three
years. A strategic and integrated
approach to offender programming
that combines the strengths of
Health, Religious Services,
Workforce Development, Work-based
Education (Vocational Training),
Mental Health Symptom Management,
Alcohol and Drug, and Sex Offender
Treatment delivers that promise.
Targeted for change are those risk
factors that drive offender
criminality. This approach
strengthens prison security and
supports programs that normalize and
reinforce responsible offender
behavior through a
"Parallel
Universe"
philosophy. This is a system of
"Change for Success by Design".
Program Division Strategy
Our strategy is to
provide evidenced-based programming
opportunities and services that
sound social science research
identifies as risk reducing
activities. We will use proven
techniques embedded in social
learning theory, behavioral
repetition that supports personal
accountability, followed by positive
reinforcement. With the funding
provided by Arizona citizens,
Programs will require offenders to
practice on the inside the behaviors
that produce civil and productive
citizens on the outside. A
business-like approach is our
strategic goal to offender
programming.
Program Division Systems for Change
Automated Offender
Intake and Assessment document
provides an appropriate
classification, institutional
placement to each offender who is
committed to the Arizona Department
of Corrections and program road map.
Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI)
is an integral
component of the overall Arizona
Department of Corrections prison
work program. Legislatively mandated
to operate as a fiscally
self-sufficient enterprise, ACI
provides business and industry
activities which trains and employs
offenders in jobs that reflect
employment opportunities found in
the community. The industries and
enterprises operated by ACI provide
valuable training and employment of
offenders in the manufacturing of
products or production of services
as needed for the construction,
operation, maintenance or use of any
office, department, institution or
agency supported by the state, its
political subdivisions, or for sale
to the public. Being able to work
and support your family is one of
the four core building blocks for
community success.
The
Offender Support Services Division
has responsibility in the following
areas: Intake and Assessment,
Offender Classification/Movement,
Offender Information, Protective
Segregation, Time Computation, and
Public Access. Offenders received
into the Arizona Department of
Corrections are initially classified
utilizing an objective
Offender Classification System (OCS).
Consistent with
community standards
Health Care Services
provides quality medical care and
services responsive to the offender
population to include: medical
services, dental care, primary
nursing care, and quality pharmacy
care. Keeping offenders healthy is
the basic platform from which the
offender is launched to successfully
complete basic education, workforce
development, and alcohol and drug
treatment sessions essential to
building good citizenship and
self-sufficiency. The Correctional
Public Health program assists in
reducing the incidence and spread of
communicable diseases, making the
prison system a healthy and
productive environment for both
staff and offenders.
Effective
Counseling and Treatment Services
provides treatment for offenders
housed in general population,
special housing units, and those
offenders committed to licensed
psychiatric facilities. Completing
counseling and treatment programming
for substance abuse, sex offenders,
mental health, communicable diseases
and MRDD statistically reduces
relapse, revocation, and
recidivism. Addiction
Treatment Services
provides Substance Abuse Treatment
and education that produces
long-term change, increases quality
of life, reduces substance abuse and
criminal conduct and facilitates
successful reintegration into the
community.
Realizing the
importance of
Workforce Development
, we will provide
basic educational services to
offenders in four program areas:
Functional Literacy,
GED Preparation,
Work-based Education, and Special
Education. Opportunities for the
employment of offenders in
meaningful jobs develops good
working habits and reinforces
work-based education which will
assist offenders in eventually
securing and holding family wage
employment on the outside.
The presence of a
spiritual environment
models, promotes,
and encourage offenders to develop a
sense of hope and a redemptive and
productive lifestyle. The
Department's Volunteer program
provides spiritual programming
through a respected and recognized
volunteer community that reinforces
spiritual educational and other
pro-social values and beliefs.
Positive spiritual reentry mentors
wraps support systems around each
offender. This is a recognized core
building block to long term public
safety and civil and productive
citizenship.
The
Women's Services
is responsible for directing and
managing all family and offender
related issues involving female
offenders under the Department's
supervision. From intake and
assessment, to complex based
programming to re-entry, the Women's
Services’ emphasis is on providing
better services to those under the
management of the Arizona Department
of Corrections, with the ultimate
goal of improving public safety now
and later. Women's Services helps
create a cohesive strategy from the
various concurrent and interrelated
efforts by the Department and its
partners. The focus of this
strategy is to reduce relapse,
revocation, and recidivism
and to influence offenders
into becoming productive citizens.
Reduced
victimization and building
restorative justice values in the
offender population are central to
living a safe, civil, and productive
life. Cognitive Restructuring
concepts will serve as our thinking
and language for change.
For further
information, please contact
Program Division (602) 364-3234,
jreese@azcorrections.gov
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