Community Supervision

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "Community Supervision"

Shana Hunt
5 years ago
Views:

2 Community Supervision PROTECT THE PUBLIC SUPPORT RECOVERY ASSESS AND EXTRACT THREATS Helen Harberts

3 These tools are an important part of DWI /Drug Courts! Officer safety first!

4 Probation clients need help! Community supervision is critical to their success!

5 Definitions Community Supervision is: The effort to monitor the offender s behavior and program compliance outside of the court room and to support change by addressing good and bad target behaviors quickly.

6 Who Can Do Community Supervision? Badges-extend to 24/7 Do NOT send unsafe and untrained people into the field to do home visits and searches. Do NOT do it.

7 Is this important? No, it is critical. Including law enforcement on the drug court team is practiced more rarely but is clearly associated with more positive outcomes. Working on the street, law enforcement can contribute a unique perspective to the drug court team. Law enforcement can improve referrals to the program and can extend the connection of the drug court team into the community for further information gathering and monitoring of participants (e.g., in the form of home visits). This all contributes to positive outcome costs. Exploring the Key Components of Drug Courts: A Comparative Study of 18 Adult Drug Courts on Practices, Outcomes and Costs NIJ March 2008 Shannon Carey PhD

8 Law Enforcement Matters

9 What does this mean? We don t fully know the value of probation and community supervision via research. Probation varies too much. We DO know that probation helps in staffing. We DO know that field services, home visits, and non governmental hours matter.

10 What is your target? High risk, high need participants May present a lethal risk to the community (DUI) Are often different to supervise in a number of ways. Require intense supervision and sharp knowledge base that evolves constantly. Rules differ for crime categories! (DUI)

11 QUADRANT MODEL FOCUS here for public safety High Needs Low Needs High Risk Accountability Treatment Pro-social habilitation Adaptive habilitation 300 hours of tx (combo) Accountability NO TREATMENT! Pro-social habilitation (Adaptive habilitation) 150 hours of criminal thinking Low Risk Treatment (Pro-social habilitation) Adaptive habilitation 200 hours of tx (combo) Secondary prevention Diversion hours of Ed

12 Purpose of Community Supervision 1. Protect public safety 2. Provide accountability 3. Protect internal and external program integrity 4. Support the progress of the participant 5. Provide early intervention 6. As an adjunct to treatment 7. Extend the team into the community

13 Home Visits Can Be Critical! Participant found dead in bedroom Had been drinking over the weekend Court didn t test on nights or over the weekend

14 Get out of your office

15 You have to show up and check things out!

16 What are we looking for? Threats to the recovery environment Signs of negative changes Signs of pending lapse Signs of unhealthy relationships Signs of LLPOF ALL CONCERNS FOR FAST INTERVENTION!

17 But is that all? NO! Critical Goal: Catch them doing something right! Assess, assess, assess Report it to the team immediately for incentives.

18 Who has seen this? Do you have it?

19 Dosage matters Not years, dosage. Dosage is driven by assessment +professional judgment. Assessment give us the risk level and needs of the offender required in order to intervene in criminal behavior. Too much intervention does harm Too little intervention does harm

20 What is risk? Risk to fail probation without more structure. It does NOT refer to the ultra high risk public safety folks. (Nor do these recommendations)

21 DUI vs Regular Assessment The population is not homogenous DWI will have an entire spectrum of offenders Criminogenic Needs Assessment, Ongoing Not one size fits all Often low on risk assessments-wrong! entitled, educated, sophisticated and VERY SLIPPERY Resistant to supervision Team may be too comfortable with them

22 ASAM Recovery Environment An essential part of the treatment assessment and placement criteria. Who on the team is performing this function? How many hours per week do you spend with clients? What are they doing the rest of the time?-somebody better know!

23 LOOK for mental health issues co-occurring-cannabis-and-nicotinedependence-increases-the-odds-for-dui.html Look for anxiety, trauma and depression. They will need to be treated. ASSUME they are there and rule them out, not in. ASSUME poly substance abuse in repeat DUI populations.

24 Supervision: you are the eyes of treatment and the Court! Your information sharing should be ultra high speed Your communication should be constant Your application if sanctions and incentives should be rapid and effective Your activities improve outcomes and prevent disasters.

Supervision Issues Supervision must be proactive and aggressive in monitoring participants and as a support to recovery at a level not generally

25 Supervision Issues Supervision must be proactive and aggressive in monitoring participants and as a support to recovery at a level not generally required of standard probationers Field work, home visits, searches, aggressive testing are necessary. This is not a program wish, it is a necessity

26 Common tasks at field visits Breath test, drug test Assess for dimensions of recovery Search for signs of substance abuse Garbage cans, drawers, bags, cars, fridges, garages, ice chests, grocery and convenience store receipts,etc. Search for signs of driving or criminal conduct Check & mark tires, odometer readings, locks on storage areas, etc.

27 Where is alcohol? Flavoring Mouthwash Medicines (Nyquil etc) Personal care products Sterno Orange juice alcohol free wine and beer. And of course, alcoholic beverages designed for consumption.

28 Search Full 4 th A. waiver! Social media Cell phones Computers Internet caches Texts Phone photos It is AMAZING what you will find!

29 Get on those cell phones!

30 AM and ( another participant in his outpatient substance abuse group) AM AM AM AM AM S AM AM AM Nov 18 6:22pm Plzbring tibaasement plii Nov 18 6:23pm Theyre randomly yesting me tnite Nov 18 6:25pm IM in grop Nov 18 6:27pm Plese bring to basement bathroom Nov 18 6:27pm Plzzzzzzzzzzzzz Nov 18 6:29pm Ok Nov 18 6:29pmHit me up when ur down there ill walk out Nov 18 6:30pm How long bro Nov 18 6:30pm Ok S Nov 18 6:30pm Like 20

31 AM Nov 18 6:34pm Im in the bathroom in the basement plz hurry im trippin out S Nov 18 6:35pm Leavin hollies rite now AM Nov 18 6:36pm Shit whats ur eta from there S Nov 18 6:37pm 15 S AM S AM AM Nov 18 6:38pm Shuld I wait in basement bathroom Nov 18 6:38pm Plz tell me u gotta vial to pissi in Nov 18 6:38pm Ya Nov 18 6:42pm Put the vial of piss in bathrroom trashcan Nov 18 6:42pm I gotta go bak to geoup9 hit me up when its dun S Nov 18 6:54pm Its in the trash AM Nov 18 6:54pm thanks S S AM S Nov 18 6:56pm Careful the top doesn't seal good Nov 18 6:58pm Hit me up when u can dawg Nov 18 6:58pm Thanx Nov 18 6:59pm No worries

32 AM and??????? Nov 18 6:47pm If you need a source for tina Hit up Tell them dan sent ya..good stuff AM Nov 18 6:48pm How lomng doles xaanax stay in system??? Nov 18 6:48pm 72hrs to a week AM Nov 18 6:49pm anyway to clear em out???? Nov 18 6:49pm Do you ever get swabbed!!!??????? AM Nov 18 6:50pm Occasionally ans I no it doesn t test for that???? Nov 18 6:50pm Well if ur dirty dirty.. Always check urself into the ER for a panic attack or something.. do that day of probation..walk outta there with a hospital/dr ltr AM Nov 18 6:54 Fuk it

33 AM and K Mo Fukin Bd Nov 19 8:25am Need barz Nov 19 11:27am Il pay 6 bux a bar i just want em

34 You Have a New Text Message oops From: XXXXXXX To: XXXXXXX Received: Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 12:44 PM Message: What's up Reechy,off work already due to weather.i also dropped second ua for the week so i can drink today,shit we are already drinking just got 18 pack

35 Ordering drugs in drug court AM ( My probationer ) and SF B Chic (Katy) SF B Chic Nov 18 3:29pm R u getting anything in la? SF B Chic Nov 18 3:35pm Can we go in on the deal. If I got 4 would u get 2 so we could do the 540 SF B Chich Nov 18 3:45pm Toats

36 THE WORLD CAN BE TERRIBLY CRUEL TO PERSONS IN RECOVERY: SIMPLE ERRANDS BECOME A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE.

37 Focus: what are they doing? How many hours per week are there? How many hours per week are participants in services, or under your visual supervision? What hours does the government work? What hours does addiction work? What are the hardest times for clients to remain sober?

38 What is going on at home? IS IT SAFE FOR THEM TO LIVE THERE? PHYSICALLY SAFE? RECOVERY SAFE?

39 Remember: you MUST do field work to truly know your client

40 Recovery is not for wimps! It is hard work. Folks want to quit It takes a LONG time It hurts Folks have tried to quit before They need help from you.

41 This means: Extreme risk for trigger based relapse Alcohol is a disinhibitor, making it a primary cause of relapse on drug of choice (NIJ-20 times more likely to relapse if you use alcohol) Remember: just because you caught them with one or two drugs, that may not really be the drug of choice

42 Your participants: Are working on other issues than you How can they use and not get caught Who knows the secrets of how to beat the system That is called addiction. It is expected at first. So they consult friends and they check the internet for advice.

43 I hid my alcohol. In my windshield washing fluid. New container, filled with vodka, some blue food coloring, and drilled a hole into my truck cab for the tube. Vodka on command. My wife bitched at me about drinking so I filled one garden hose in the back with booze and capped it off. Gardening became drinking.

44 Basic Field Services

45 Consider this. There is great benefit in knowing that your probation officer may show up without notice at any time That your probation officer cares and wants you to succeed That your probation officer will hold you accountable and will acknowledge good work. That your probation officer might be a little crazy..

46 Are there public safety issues that exceed the client alone? Dependent adults? Dependent children? Family violence? Methamphetamine labs? BHO Labs? Cannabis grows?

47 Protect the public! Elder abuse Child abuse & neglect

48 Are there other problems? Signs of use Signs of tampering Signs of problems with relationships Signs of new occupants Signs of bad associates they need help with. Case management threats that require different approaches. Things they forgot to mention

49 Engage the family or a reliable support system Learn about adolescent brain development and behavioremotional growth tolls from the time of addiction forward. Adjust your directives and case plan to meet the capabilities of your participant. Clear, short directions work best. For all clients, Identify and address an inappropriate home environment-domestic violence in home, associates or roommates who keep drugs around, sexual assault, unsafe conditions. Plan ahead for what you are going to do about gang membership, sometimes three generations deep. For some, that IS family. The team will need to assist with the development of a support system for the client which may include family, or assist with the creation of a new clean and sober community for the participant in recovery.

50 This is all about. Public safety Treatment recovery Proximal and distal behaviors Detecting desired and undesired behaviors Addressing critical issues consistently Applying incentives and sanctions as close to real time as possible.

51 Information Gathering/ Continued Assessment It is critical to praise, identify positive work and report good news even faster than negative news. Part of the goal is to catch participants doing right! You may provide them the incentive to just make it one more day.

52 Field services protect the public Field services support recovery Field services provide help with refusal skills. Field services protect the integrity of the Court process.

53 Is this only about gotcha? NO! The most important goal is to catch them doing something right!

54 Improved dimensions of recovery Increased organization Better problem solving House lighter, cleaner Fewer fuzzy dishes Evidence of structure Reduced chaos Treatment and medication compliance

55 What we should begin to see: Secular Organizations for Sobriety LifeRing

56 Supervision Staff Competencies Essential for Drug Court Experienced supervision officers Most effective Maintain balanced view Apply RNR and CCP.

57 Effective Community Supervision

Incentives and Sanctions: Practical Application of the Science of Behavior Change. Shannon M. Carey, Ph.D. Based on Need to Know Fact Sheet by NDCI

Incentives and Sanctions: Practical Application of the Science of Behavior Change Shannon M. Carey, Ph.D. Based on Need to Know Fact Sheet by NDCI Purpose What is the purpose of Sanctions? What is the