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Offender Programs

Adjustment to Incarceration

This program helps participants cope with life in a correctional setting. The participants will have an opportunity to examine the personal impact of incarceration, explore reactions to their losses, and consider constructive ways to adjust to incarceration.

Anger Issues Workshop

This workshop is designed to give an individual an opportunity to learn and practice the skills that will allow them to positively control the events in their life. The goal is to help the individual understand why they use violence, how to communicate more effectively, and how to set and attain worthwhile goals.

Criminal Lifestyles

The focus of this program is for the participant to recognize the connection between how they think and how they act, examine the costs and payoffs of their criminal behavior, identify criminal thinking errors, review their history of breaking social rules, and how their actions have harmed not only themselves but also their friends and family, their victim and the victim’s family and their community.

Living With Others

Participants concentrate on skills that will help them adjust to incarceration including learning to communicate effectively, manage their anger, and build healthy relationships.

Parenting

This program focuses on building trust, communication, handling anger, and setting rules and limits. Participants engage in role play to learn how to recognize anger and ways to control it. A video is watched so skills they have learned can be put into practice.

Rational Thinking

The focus of this program is for the participant to recognize the connection between how they think and how they act, examine the costs and payoffs of their criminal behavior, identify criminal thinking errors, review their history of breaking social rules, and how their actions have harmed not only themselves but also their friends and family, their victim and the victim’s family and their community.

Violence in Society

This program is designed to stimulate and challenge an individual’s attitude, perception, and behavior related to interpersonal violence.

Substance Abuse

The Substance Abuse class is a twelve week program that covers all areas of addiction and life changes. It includes, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) stages of changes in health, wellness, relapse prevention, overdose prevention, and dealing with adversities