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                                    Transition From Jail To Community Initiative Practice Brief

      

                    
          
    Transition from Jail to Community Initiative Practice Brief
The Role of Screening and Assessment in Jail Reentry
      “Consistent with effective correctional practice, jails and their community partners should identify risk levels and criminogenic needs of returning [offender] populations and should focus their resources on individuals with the highest levels of both ... This brief presents the two-stage screening and assessment process to determine risk and needs levels that is a core element of the Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) model” (p. 1). Sections of this publication include: the TJC initiative; risk and need in a triage approach; risk screening-selecting a screening instrument, administering risk screening, norming and validating the screening instrument, and using screening data; TJC screening principles; proxy triage risk screener; key implementation lessons learned-screening to determine risk of offending and assessment of criminogenic need; TJC assessment principles; assessment of criminogenic need--selecting an assessment instrument, administering assessment, and using assessment information; key implementation lessons learned-assessment of criminogenic risk/need; and lessons learned from the TJC site implementation.
    Case Management Strategies for Successful Jail Reentry
      This brief explains why “it is imperative that jurisdictions use an effective case management process that includes a strong community handoff component, particularly at the moment of release, and that ensures continuity of care between in-jail and community-based programs and services ... [and] presents the Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) initiative’s approach to case planning and community handoff” (p. 1). Sections of this publication cover: the TJC initiative and model--a triage approach to interventions; the TJC case management approach; TJC case management principles; development of the case plan; referral process-inventorying available programs and services, and creating a seamless referral process; establishing continuity of care-jail “in-reach,” and consistency of programming and services; information sharing; and role of probation/community corrections. Return to top

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