GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | SUBSTANCE & MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment • 192 male inmates • Program B - OVERVIEW Wrightsville • Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) programs • 192 male inmates have been in existence for more than 10 years • Paulding PSATC - Dallas • Created to help offenders return to society as law abiding, - 200 male probationers self-supporting, pro-social citizens thereby reducing recidi- • - Hawkinsville vism • 96 female inmates • - Valdosta PROGRAM DESCRIPTION • 100 male inmates (parole revocations) • A nine-month, highly structured RSAT program that targets high risk, high needs offenders nearing release, probationers sentenced by the courts, parole revocators and other court Probation Substance Abuse Treatment or GDC-referred offenders who have a need for intensive substance abuse programming OVERVIEW • Offenders within the program have a history of substance • The Probation Substance Abuse Treatment Center (PSATC) abuse which was the causative factor to their correctional is a nine-month RSAT program for probationers supervision ADMISSION CRITERIA • Offenders are involved in an intensive, highly structured • Requires a court-order residential therapeutic treatment community which is com- • Requires an assesment by NGA or professional override prised of peer groups and counselors. The community is responsible for helping offenders work together under the PROGRAM LOCATIONS authority and supervision of staff. • Bainbridge PSATC - Bainbridge • Program incorporates process and psychoeducational • 384 male probationers groups, individual counseling, work details, and vocational • - Savannah education • 150 male probationers • Participants balance work with intensive individual and • Lee Arrendale PSATC - Alto group counseling sessions within the program • 198 female probationers • Offenders are subject to random drug screening • Northwest PSATC at Walker State Prison - Rock Springs • 200 male probationers ADMISSION CRITERIA • Turner RSAT - Sycamore • Requires a court-order • 200 male probationers • Offenders may have an assesed need as identified by the Next Generation Assesment (NGA) or placement by profes- sional override • Minimum of 18-24 months on Tentative Parole Month (TPM), Parole Eligibility Date (PED) or probation supervi- sion • Unsuccessful completion of Aftercare/Day Reporting Cen- Integrated Treatment Facility ter (DRC)/RSAT OVERVIEW • Short-term incarceration graduated sanctions • On July 1, 2012, GDC opened two Integrated Treatment • Rearrest/Reoffend associated with substance abuse after Facilities (ITF) completion of above programs • One female facility located in Zebulon • One male facility located in Baxley PROGRAM LOCATIONS • Created to treat offenders who have a history of both sub- • Bleckley PSATC - Cochran stance abuse and mental health disorders - 200 female probationers • GDC is the first corrections system in the nation to imple- • Coastal State Prison - Savannah ment integrated treatment for female offenders who suffer • 316 male inmates from both mental health disorders and substance abuse • CAT 2 offenders (inmates sentenced two years or less) • Johnson State Prison Program A - Wrightsville Types of Disorders • Cognitive Behavioral Treatment programs Co-Occuring - (Dual Diagnosis) the occurrence of a substance • Trauma-focused treatment abuse problem with a psychiatric disorder. • Psychoeducational, therapy and cognitive restructuring Psychiatric - a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar groups disorder. • Motivational Enhancement Therapy • Relapse Prevention Substance use - is abuse and dependence on alcohol, amphet- • Medicated Assisted Therapies amines, caffeine, inhalants, nicotine, prescription medications • Psychopharmacologic Interventions and Illness (such as sedatives), opioids (morphine, heroin), marijuana, Management cocaine, hallucinogens, and/or phencyclidine (known as PCP). • Problem-solving skills Substance-induced - include intoxication, withdrawal and vari- • Dual recovery mutual self-help recovery ous mental states (dementia, psychosis, anxiety, mood disorder) • Reentry plan to include a Wellness Recovery Action Plan in which the substance induces when used. (WRAP)

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ADMISSION CRITERIA • A nine month, highly structured program that actively com- • Requires a court-order bines interventions intended to address both mental health • Requires an assessment by NGA of professional override and substance abuse issues in persons with co-occurring • Current mental health and substance abuse treatment disorders with the intention of treating both disorders, related problems and the whole person more effectively • Current prescription of psychotropic medication(s) • Provides an intensive, highly structured residential thera- • History of mental health and substance abuse treatment peutic treatment community within six months of intake/referral • Participants balance work with intensive individual and • Unsuccessful Completion at DRCs; Accountability Courts group counseling sessions within the program (Mental Health and/or Drug Courts); RSAT programs and Aftercare Services • Offenders are subject to random drug screening PROGRAM LOCATIONS Service Elements of Program • West Central ITF - Zebulon • Screening, assessment to include risk-need responsivity • 138 female probationers • Individualized treatment • Appling ITF - Baxley • On-going monitoring of mental health symptoms • 200 male probationers • Illness Management

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