RSAT District 4

Grant
Grantee
Objective
20RSATTF & 21RS19TF
$125,881

Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office

Jail Based Substance Abuse Treatment

Project Director: Gary Anderson

Twin Falls County seeks to continue the successful RSAT program at the county jail by improving access to behavioral health treatment for 75 drug dependent or addicted offenders incarcerated at the county jail and helping 50% of participants that complete at least 2 months of treatment to not recidivate at 6-months post enrollment.

The County’s Treatment and Recovery Clinic (TARC) uses the “Evidence Based Practice Programs” such as Straight Ahead,Thinking for Good, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) to provide a structured treatment experience and give participants the knowledge, structure, and support to allow them to achieve abstinence from substances. The program includes individual and group sessions and Case Management. Family and Social Support group components are not provided in the jail program. However, these components are provided after release to individuals who desire to continue in TARC’s outpatient treatment program, (OP). Other cognitive and behavioral “evidence based” programs may be utilized to enhance individualized treatment.

To improve coordination and delivery of services to released clients, the RSAT counselor or part-time case manager provide discharge planning.  Clients not completing their individualized treatment program while incarcerated can seamlessly finish on an OP basis at TARC. Clients seeking to continue treatment services after release are oftentimes referred to TARC; where support staff can help clients apply for financial assistance, complete Medicaid or other health care enrollment, and can connect clients to state approved sliding fee scale service providers such as Family Health Services, the Wellness Clinic, or TARC’s behavioral health treatment programs.

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