Author: Ward, Rebecca
Title: ACCESS: Assertive Continuing Care Ensuring Sobriety and Success Final Evaluation Report
Summary: As formerly incarcerated youth return to the community, they are often faced with significant barriers to effective reintegration, including lack of educational and housing options, gang affiliation, an institutional identity, and substance abuse and mental health problems. During recent years, more attention has been paid to these reentry issues, which has resulted in the development of a number of evidence-based reentry models. One of these, Assertive Continuing Care (ACC), uses intensive case management, home visits, and parental/caregiver involvement to directly target the multiple barriers these youth face to successful reentry. In 2004, Using ACC as a model, Phoenix House of San Diego, Inc., created the ACCESS program to address the needs of youg offenders reentering local communities from detention facilities in San Diego County. This report provides a description of clients who entered the program and information on services provided, as well as outcomes measured by initial and six-month follow-up interviews, risk assessments, and criminal and placement history information. Results indicate that youth who successfully complete the program reported increased mental health, higher resiliency scores, and were less likely to recidivate.
Details: San Diego, CA: San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), 2009. v.p.
Source: Internet Resource
Year: 2009
Country: United States
URL:
Shelf Number: 119221
Keywords:
Juvenile Offenders (San Diego)Mental Health ServicesRecidivismReentry, JuvenilesRehabilitation |
