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                                    Transition From Jail To Community (TJC)

      

                    
          
    Transition from Jail to Community (TJC)
There are over 3000 local jails in the United States that process approximately 12 million releases per year. With such a magnitude, focusing on offender reentry provides opportunity to influence public safety, but implementation of a successful reentry process for offenders is both multifaceted and complex.

Individuals committed to jails have diverse risks and complex health and human service needs, and their length of incarceration in jail is brief when compared to prison. In addition, many inmates released from jails lack community connections to treatment and/or supervision organizations to address their reintegration issues.

Phase I

Designed to advance coordinated and collaborative relationships between jail and local community organizations, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) launched the Transition from Jail to Community Initiative (TJC), in collaboration with the Urban Institute, to address reentry, reduce recidivism and enhance public safety.

In 2007, the TJC model was tested in six local jurisdictions to improve long-term reintegration outcomes for individuals returning to communities from local jails. The initial sites selected to receive targeted technical assistance to aid with implementation included:

Davidson County, Tennessee
	Denver, Colorado
	Douglas County, Kansas
	Kent County, Michigan
	La Crosse County, Wisconsin
	Orange County, CaliforniaDuring the initial phase of the initiative, tools were developed for dissemination to the field. The first of those products was the TJC Implementation Toolkit. This web-based learning resource was designed to guide jurisdictions through the implementation of the TJC model. The TJC Toolkit is a hands-on resource for users interested in jail reentry, whether in a criminal justice or community-based organization - providing users the ability to navigate through the nine modules at their own pace. The modules incorporate examples from jurisdictions across the country, tools developed to facilitate implementation in the six Phase I learning sites, resource suggestions, and detailed content.

Phase I Findings

Jurisdictions should develop and use an effective case management process that includes a strong community handoff component that ensures continuity of care between in-jail and community-based programs and services.

Jails and their community partners should identify risk levels and criminogenic needs of returning populations while focusing their resources on individuals with the highest levels of both.

Phase II

In collaboration with Urban Institute, NIC selected six additional sites in August 2012 for implementation of the TJC Model:

Ada County, Idaho
	Franklin County, Massachusetts
	Fresno County, California
	Hennepin County, Minnesota
	Howard County, Maryland
	Jacksonville, FloridaThese sites received 2.5 years of targeted technical assistance.

San Diego County, CA, and Santa Barbara, CA, were added for implementation of the TJC model in an AB-109 environment. During a 30-month period, these jurisdictions received targeted technical assistance to support their development of a systems change process involving collaborative strategic planning, continuity of care, evidence-based practices, data-driven decision-making, and self-evaluation.

TJC Survey

In August 2017, the Urban Institute conducted a survey of Phase I & II learning sites - focusing on implementation of the TJC Model. Findings indicated the respondents’ appreciation of the targeted technical assistance that they received, crediting the process for helping their communities establish or expand evidence-based practices and interventions; enhance foundational capacity to monitor and measure system performance; reduce recidivism; and build and sustain collaborations between their jails, other criminal justice agencies, and reentry stakeholders.

TJC Readiness Protocol/Assessment Instrument

In 2016-2017, NIC developed and piloted the TJC Readiness Protocol and Implementation Progress tools in collaboration with the Urban Institute. The Readiness Protocol Tool (RPT) was developed to evaluate:

Organizational and/or system culture specific to leadership
	Collaborative structure
	Data collection capacity
	Understanding of reentry
	Knowledge of and/or inclusion of evidence-based practices
	Screening and assessments
	Case management
	Transition planning/interventions
	Program evaluationThe Implementation Progress Tool (IPT) was developed to identify and evaluate measurable progression through the TJC process.

The following sites participated in RPT/IPT pilot:

Tulsa County, OK
	Bexar County, TX
	Gadsden County, FL
	Allegheny County, PATJC National Rollout 2018

In collaboration with the Crime & Justice Institute, the National Institute of Corrections selected the following jurisdictions to receive TJC technical assistance to support the reintegration of justice-involved adults:

Brazos County, TX
	Charlottesville, VA
	Dane County, WI
	Enumclaw City, WA
	Hampton, VA
	Seminole County, FL
	Solano County, CA
	Sumter County, FL
      
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    Resource Links
          Community Resources for Justice Homepage
          National Reentry Resource Center
          Urban Institute and TJC
          John Jay Prisoner Reentry Institute
          Urban Institute Reentry Study
                   NIC Resources
          Sustaining Systems Change: Findings from a Transition from Jail to Community Initiative Stakeholder Survey
          Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) Initiative Phase 2 Site Reports
          Process and Systems Change Evaluation Findings from the Transition to Jail Community Initiative
          Case Management Strategies for Successful Jail Reentry
          The Role of Screening and Assessment in Jail Reentry
          The Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) Initiative

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          Transition from Jail to Community

Over 9 million people pass through America’s local jails each year, and these individuals often receive little in the way of services, support, or supervision as they reenter the community. NIC's Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) Initiative seeks to develop support for those individuals.

Explore NIC's TJC curriculum

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