Two learning modules to develop reentry and life skills
Addresses: life skills
This program introduces basic construction safety;construction math, hand tools, power tools, construction drawing,rigging; communication skills; employability skills,and material handling.
Need addressed: Employment
Teaches skills in the area of laundry management.
Need Addressed: Employment
Food safety certification course which covers food borne illness, how to prevent it; purchasing and receiving guidelines; food prep, holding and serving guidelines; food safety management, systems and sanitation guidelines.
Needs addressed: Employment; life skills.
Instruction and training to operate and tender multiple machine tools setters.
Need addressed: Employment
Apprenticeship for learning carpentry skills.
Need addressed: Employment
Teaches welding skills.
Need addressed: Employment
The class helps participants realize that although they made mistakes and poor choices, that they are worthwhile and matter. That by investing in themselves through service, they can find fulfillment.
Helps people find competitive jobs that are based on the person's preferences and abilities, developing resumes, completing job applications, preparing for interviews.
Need addressed: employment
Training in industrial mechanics
Needs Addressed: Employment
This program provides an overview of safety applications on a construction site as well as training on governmental regulations.
Need Addressed: Employment
Inmate support is provided inside NDCS facilities by Mental Health Association peers trained in Intentional Peer Support.
Needs addressed: Support
Instruction and training in material handling including shipping and receiving.
Need addressed: Employment
This program targets entrepreneurial-minded individuals and offers intensive leadership development, business plancompetitions, executive mentoring, financial investment, andstartup incubation.
Needs addressed: Life skills; employment, reentry
Provides ongoing community based support services to participants including advocating and supporting participants who want to find housing; referral and assistance obtaining other communityservices.
Needs addressed: support and life skills
Training in how to use and operate a forklift.
Need addressed: Employment
Instruction and training to operate or tend chemical equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of institutional janitorial chemical products.
Need addressed: Employment
The TRADE Program teaches conflict resolution; critical thinking; communication; personal finance; healthy relationships; basic computer; job preparation.
Needs Addressed: Life skills; employment.
Library of Congress Braille Certification in the areas of , Literary, Nemeth, Music, Foreign Language and Proofreading.
Need addressed: Life skills
This program, delivered by a wellness expert, provides workshops on preventative health education and nutrition, such as Men's Birth Control; Date Abuse; Bullying; Gender Boxes; and Hygiene.
Need addressed: Health.
Helps individuals identify a specific career path; learn professional and personal skills to assist them in getting a job.
Need addressed: Employment
This program provides learning in the area of construction mathsuch as division, decimals/percentages, reading measurements, calculating area, linear measures, angles, volume, solving for the unknown.
NeedAddressed: Employment
Instruction and learning to fabricate position, align and fit parts of structural metal parts.
Need addressed: employement
Discusses deescalation; decision making and consequences; how trauma impacts; and how to overcome negative ways of dealing with stressful situations and crises. Need addressed: Life skills.
Helps participants develop a resume, prepare for interviews and work on job skills.
Need area addressed: Employment
This course provides entry-level information about employee rights;employer responsibilities; how to file a complaint; how to identify and prevent job related hazards.
Need Addressed: Employment
Continuing education for all RISE graduates.
Need Addressed: Employment and Reentry
Certificate program utilizing tablets for improvement in academics and job training.
Need addressed: Education. employment
Instruction and training in shaping, finishing, and refinishing damaged, warn or used furniture or new high grade furniture to specification.
Need Addressed: Employment
Social workers provide assistance to individuals with high medical/mental health needs to obtain transitional living, assisted living or skilled nursing care, as needed.
Needs addressed: Re-entry
Social workers coordinate with a variety of community providers and agencies for mentalhealth services, substance abuse treatment and medical services. Providers include the Veteran's Administration, DHHS, treatment agencies, private practiceand non-profit organizations.
Needs Addressed: Housing, medical, mental health, basicneeds, re-entry.
Social workers assist individuals with high medical/mental health needs to find clothing resources, apply for benefits or general assistance and other life needs.
Needs addressed: Social work services.
Specialized Population Served offers services for inmates with mental illness or serious chronic medical conditions that are high risk and multi-needs.
Needs addressed: Health; mental health
Social workers assist individuals with high medical needs to set appointments for medication management, healthcare and provide resources to obtain medical insurance upon release:
Needs addressed: Health, mental health, life skills, re-entry.
Provided on an as-needed basis, clinicians are available to assist individuals in a mental health crisis.
Needs Addressed: Mental health.
Licensed, clinical therapists provide one-on-one or group therapy sessions as needed.
Need addressed: mental health
Risk Assessments and Psychological Evaluations provide diagnosis clarification, intelligence testingand Dementia screening.
Need addressed: Mental Health; education.
Transition Services are available to those transitioning to or from general population or protective management. Mental Health professionals may assists with these services.
Need Addressed: Mental Health
On-call Skilled Nursing Facilities manage crises dealing with medical emergencies, behavioral issues and suicide watches.
Needs addressed: Health and mental health.
See clinical programs list for more details.
Reentry specialists work with individuals to ensure a reentry plan is completed. The plan allows for a smooth transition to the community and focuses on housing, transportation, employment, education, and medical/mental health services as needed.
Need addressed: Re-entry
Social workers provide assistance in obtaining and completing Social Security applications to individuals who qualify and are 90 days from discharge, post-release supervisionor parole.
Need addressed: Re-entry for those who may qualify for Social Security benefits due to age or disability.
Clients develop comprehensive reentry plans that include housing/transitional living,employment/education, transportation, IDcredentials, medical/mental and behavioral health treatment.
Need addressed: Reentry.
The program is designed to build confidence and accountability, resiliency, problem solving skills for reentry success and personal growth.
Need area addressed: employment, reentry
Designed to increase knowledge of sex offender registration laws, how to avoid registration violations and prepare for release with registration laws in mind.
Need addressed: reentry
7th Step is a self-betterment clubwhich discusses and works on issues of interest such as drug use, family , anger, and other things that hold attendees back from their best selves.
NeedAddressed: Support
This program allows individuals with similar life experiences to walk along side each other in supportive relationships.
Needs addressed: Attitudes/Behavior; Prosocial Activities
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) is an organization which encourages members to read, and listen at meetingsusingthe program as an opportunity to facethe truth and become accountablefor their addiction to alcohol.
NeedAddressed: Support for addiction and prosocial activity
Exploring attitudes toward death, finding meaning in loss and death, the impact of trauma, how to have a good death and life, how to be with others who are dying/grieving.
A Restrictive Housing program exploringsubstance abuse recovery with music by expressing thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Addressed need: drug/alcohol, outside interest
This self-betterment club provides anopportunity to explore the root of the African American culture andheritage, including the past, present and future.
Need addressed: Outside interest, pro-social activity
Reading selections which explore topics of self-betterment and pro-social growth; accompanied by a series of thought provoking questions aimed at assisting in reading comprehension, retention and practical application of learned skills.
Needs addressed: Attitudes/behavior
This club is organized and operated by a group of individuals serving lengthy or life sentences, with the focus on mentoring others and lowering recidivism. The club's goals and activities encourage a purposeful life and promote a healthier culture within the facility.
Participants in this club learnabout the religious, cultural aspects, arts, customs, crafts, language, and the heritage of the Hispanic people.
Needs addressed: Outside interest and support.
Narcotics Anonymous encouragesits members to attend meetings, readand listento speakers to face the truth and be accountablefor their addictions.
Need addressed: Drug addiction support; pro-social/outside interest.
Provides participants with tools needed to become men of integrity, courage, accountability and honor so they can live peaceful and productive lives.
Need addressed: Attitudes/behavior
NASCA is designed to help Native Americansexpress their uniqueness of cultural and spiritual practices. Participants are given the chance to learn how to sing, prayand dance from a Native perspective.
Needs address: Pro-social/outside interestand support.
A variety of activities that encouragehealth pastimes are offered at all facilities. Please check with recreational specialists for more information.
Needs addressed: Pro-social/outside interest; health.
Toastmasters empowers people to improve communication and leadership skills, find the courage to change, achieve their full potential,and realize their dreams.
Needs addressed: Pro-social; outside interest; attitude; behavior.
The Veteran's Group aims to assist all veterans and honorary members, including veterans of the United States of America and its Allies Forces in addition totheir dependentsand the widows and orphans of deceased veterans. The group providesopportunities forveterans to find employment upon release.
Need Addressed: Employment
Variety of classes, workshops and religious services designed to help inmates with support and spiritual development.
Needs addressed: Pro-social, support.
Builds basic skills for GED testing, college readiness and/or skill development.
Need Addressed: Education
Assists studentsprepare for taking the high school equivalency test (GED).
Addresses Need Area: Education
English as a second language (ESL) provides individuals with literacy support before Adult Basic Education
Needs addressed: Education; life skills
NDCS operates its own school district with a high school. Students of all ages may attend high school classes. Individuals under22 who have not graduated from high school are required to be in school. Students over 22 need to go through an application process.
Need addressed: Education.
Opportunity to pursue college coursework through individual and family support.
Need addressed: Education, employment.
A domestic violence program focused on developing new thinking in the development of relationships.
A trauma informed mail based correspondence program which explores entrepreneurship, healthy relationships, leadership, criminal thinking, employment, purposeful living, reentry, anger management, character development, victim awareness, persevering, and becoming the solution.
Needs addressed: Attitudes/behavior
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)is a workshop thatprovides insightonanger and relationships; and new ways to address disagreements.
Needs Addressed: Attitudes, behavior, family, friends, employment
This program increases a participant'sunderstanding of the harm/damages they caused their victims, communities and themselves. The program also provides an important life skill module that teaches how to become emotionally proficient,which translates into better decisionmakingand reduced conflicts.
Needs Addressed: Attitudes; behavior, Life skills.
Provides parents with a menu of techniques that will aid them in building positive family relationships; preventing and correcting misbehavior; using consequences to improve behavior. Teaches self-control and how to stay calm.
Need addressed: Family
Participants in Domesti-PUPStrain dogs to becomeservice animals for persons with disabilities, pet therapy programs, classroom dogs and education programs.
Needs addressed: Pro-social, attitude, behavior
Incarcerated fathers get tools they need to become more involved, responsible, and committed in the lives of their children.
Need addressed: Family
Restrictive Housing journaling that offers a creative way to examine one'spersonal story. Uses theexercises to express yourself, identify challenges and opportunities, and consider change.
Need addressed: Attitudes/behavior, family, outside interest
MRT is an evidence-based, cognitive behavioral intervention which leads to enhanced moral reasoning, better decision making and more appropriate behavior.
Needs addressed: Attitudes, behavior.
Critical and concrete tools are providedwhich helpparticipants improve interactions with those who matter in their lives. Subjects are knowing yourself first, smart love and making your own decisions.
Need addressed: Family
Second Chance Pups selects inmate volunteersto train dogs in basic obedience while providing human socialization and interaction with other dogs.
Needs addressed: Pro-social/outside interest; attitudes; behavior.
Thinking for a Changeis a high-level cognitive behavioral program developed by the National Institute of Corrections. The program uses role playing to concentrateon changing the criminogenic thinking of offenders.
Needs addressed: Attitudes; behavior; family; friends; aggression.
A leadership experience from a Christian perspective:
Needs addressed: Life skills, support, outside interest.
A series of cognitive-behavioral interactive journals in which participants in Longer Term Restrictive Housing can address their individual problem areas based on a criminogenic risk and needs assessment.
Attitudes/Behavior
This 12-month program operates in a mission-specific housing unit and focuses on cognitive restructuring with faith-based content.
Needs addressed; Attitudes, behavior
Developed by FranklinCoveyin cooperation with the Colorado Department of Corrections, 7 Habits on the Inside uses the principles of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, tailored for the incarcerated individual. The program seeks to empower individuals to manage their own lives in such a way as to be successful in prison and in the community and using the principles of integrity, proactivity, and other key skills. (12 weeks)
Needs Addressed: Attitudes/Behavior; Family; Employment; Life Skills
This program helps participants maintain and strengthen the gains they made in other treatment programs. It also helps participants navigate new challenges and helps support the transition back to a community setting.
Needs Addressed: Sex Offender conviction
The Outpatient Healthy Lives Program is available to individuals who are assessed to be at a relatively moderate risk to sexuallyre-offend.
Need Addressed: Sex Offender
Increases participant understanding of harm caused to victims and themselves; provides important life skills on how to be emptionally proficient, result in better decisions and reduced conflict.
Need address: Attitudes/Behavior, Aggression.
Provides general, individual therapy.
Need addressed: Mental Health.
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment thathelps participants developmindfulness-based coping skills to decrease suicidal and self-harming behaviors.
Needs Addressed: Mental Health
Anger Management High Risk/Need:This treatment provides instruction and practice on basic anger control strategies in a group facilitated by clinicians.
Needs Addressed: Attitudes; behavior; aggression, mental health
