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Project Name: Solano County (CA) Women’s Reentry Achievement Program (WRAP)
Applicant: Solano County Health and Social Services
Applicant Type: County
Application Number: 2012-H1892-CA-CZ
Funding Request: $402,192
Focus: Corrections and Reentry, Reentry/Release
Location: CA
Areas Covered: Vallejo, Fairfield, Vacaville, Rio Vista, Suisun, Benicia and Dixon and Solano County, CA
Summary: Target population and projected number of clients to be served. The Solano County Women’s Reentry Achievement Program (WRAP) serves women currently incarcerated in Solano County Jail / State prison or were recently released. The lead applicant for WRAP is the Solano County Health & Social Services Department (H&SS), which includes several programs that participate in pre- and post-release service delivery, such as Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Public Health, Child Welfare, Employment and Benefits Eligibility, and primary care services. Solano County, on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area, is disproportionately impacted by reentry, particularly women’s reentry, with the highest rate of female CDCR parolees per 100,000 in the greater Bay Area. (1,2) The applicant plans to serve 210 unduplicated clients per year, in the third year of WRAP implementation. Based on experience to date, the client pool will be approximately 36% African American, 9% Latina, 41% White, 2% Multi-racial, 7% American Indian, and 5% other.
Overall program design elements, both pre- and post-release service delivery. WRAP utilizes 3.5 full-time Case Managers (CMs) and 5 peer mentors to deliver services while WRAP clients are in-custody as well as for intensive case management post release.
Use of risk principle. Clients will be assessed as High-Risk on the Women’s Risk/Needs Assessment, a validated evidence based tool to receive intensive, continuous, individualized services based on a range of assessments and a pre-release plan.
Use of needs principle. WRAP clients receive services targeting their individual criminogenic needs in a gender responsive framework. Using the "Helping Women Recover" model for the criminal justice system. CMs address the narrative of physical and sexual abuse, dysfunctional relationships, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. WRAP targets additional criminogenic needs that are common to men and women, e.g. housing, employment, education and finances. To address economic needs, WRAP is adding a promising practice "Roots of Success" to place clients in green technology jobs within the Bay Area’s "Green Crescent". Staff will convene a green technology council to address employment opportunities for re-entering inmates.
Use of responsivity principle. WRAP maximizes clients’ ability to benefit from multi-faceted interventions by providing cognitive behavioral treatment and tailoring interventions to the learning style, motivation, abilities and strengths of each client, starting from assessment.
Use of dosage principle. WRAP CMs establish a close relationship with clients while they are still in custody, and work intensively with them for up to six months after release, commensurate with clients’ risks and needs.
Plan for establishing a baseline recidivism rate. For baseline recidivism, Solano initially use the CDCR 2011 Adult Institutions Outcome Evaluation Report female/high risk rate for prisoners and for jail baseline recidivism rate obtained from the Solano Probation Department. (Under California law AB 109, some prisoners are now in jail and will be counted as prisoners for baseline and target recidivism rates.). The program will analyze exact baseline and recidivism rates for our population based on lifetime arrest rates of current clients. Baseline arrest rates would be restricted to number of arrest within one year prior to WRAP program entry. Recidivism would then be any arrest within one year upon jail/prison release.
Plan for collecting and reporting key data elements. The WRAP team, a contract data analyst, and an independent evaluator from UCLA, have developed a data collection and reporting plan that integrates assessments, notes, and data from multiple sources in an online client case file using the Client System software package.
Pre and Post release services include: mental health, substance abuse, cognitive-based services, pro-social activities, employment, vocational and housing services.
- US Census, 2010
- California Prisoners and Parolees 2009: Summary Statistics on Adult Felon Prisoners and Parolees, Civil Narcotic Addicts and Outpatients and Other Populations, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Offender Information Services, Branch Estimates and Statistical Analysis Section, Data Analysis, 2010
For Further Information:
Jannett Alberg
WRAP Staff Analyst
Solano County Department of Health and Social Services
275 Beck Avenue
2nd Floor MS 5-200
Fairfield, CA 94533
ejalberg@solanocounty.com
(707) 784-8522
Application Submitted in Response to Solicitation: Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Program for Planning and Demonstration Projects
Grants.gov Assigned Number: BJA-2012-3112