Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience Criminal Justice Research Division Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat [email protected] www.sandag.org/cj October 16, 2008 1 Presentation Overview • • • • • Background on SANDAG and CJRD Description of SB 618 Program Overview of Evaluation Design Use of Assessments Preliminary Assessment Data 2 What is SANDAG? • San Diego Association of Governments • Regional planning and implementation agency for quality of life issues • Governed by a Board of Directors representing the region’s 19 local governments • Only council of governments with a Criminal Justice Research Division 3 Program Description • • • • • Assessment Process Begins Pre-Sentence Life Plan Multi-Disciplinary Team Case Management In Custody & Community • In-Prison & Community Services • Community Roundtable 4 Assessment Tools • Addiction Severity Index (ASI) • Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE) • Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) • Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) • Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and Myers-Briggs 5 Research Overview • Process Evaluation: Determine if SB 618 was implemented as planned in San Diego County • Impact Assessment: Determine what effect(s) the SB 618 program had on participants 6 Multiple Methodologies • Meeting attendance and review of minutes • Analysis of standardized assessment information • Compilation of services received in prison and community • Program partner, key staff, and community surveys • Client & family/friend satisfaction questionnaires • Follow-up interviews with clients • Collection of recidivism data from local and state databases • Cost-effectiveness analysis 7 Participant Characteristics Age 35.7 Male 83% Ethnicity White 43% Black 33% Hispanic 19% Other 5% 8 Participant Characteristics (cont.) Highest Charge Type Property 54% Drug 37% Other 9% 9 Needs: ASI Substance Abuse • • • • • • • 52% Drank Alcohol 67% to Point of Intoxication 81% Use Drugs 52% Used Multiple Drugs 53% Used Methamphetamines 51% Used Marijuana 49% Previous Drug Treatment 10 Needs: ASI Social Supports Level of Closeness Moderate Considerable 74% 1% Mother Slight 25% Father 51% 46% 3% Siblings 23% 73% 5% Partner/Spouse 24% 73% 3% Children Friends 13% 25% 50% 74% 37% 2% 11 Needs: ASI Abuse History Males Females Emotional 32% 61% Physical 20% 54% Sexual 3% 26% 12 Needs: ASI Severity Index Drug Treatment 6.2 Legal Services 5.6 Vocational Training 4.6 Family/Social Services 3.3 Alcohol Treatment 2.5 NOTE: Scale: 0 to 9 13 Needs: TABE & CASAS TABE Less than 6.0 15% 6.1 to 9.0 27% 9.1 to 12.8 27% Above high school (12.9) 31% CASAS 236.1 14 Summary • • • • High Level of Drug Treatment Needs High Level of Education and Life Skills Vocational Needs Need for Social Supports 15 Assessment Guided Life Planning: The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience Criminal Justice Research Division Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat [email protected] www.sandag.org/cj October 16, 2008 16