Offender Treatment

This class is designed specifically for use with offenders to help them:

• Examine criminal thinking behaviors
• Evaluate the impact their drug use has had on their lives
• Develop and implement a behavioral plan (which includes sobriety from all drug use and recovery maintenance)

Program Description

PES delivers in-custody Offender Drug Treatment Programs at two locations in Northern CA. Outpatient services are also provided in community-based settings.

• Average length of program: 6 months
• Course is taught by a certified and trained drug and alcohol counselor
• Class offered in Spanish and English
• Program fees may be supported by Drug Medi-Cal
• Open group format: new members may join at any time

Evidence-based Services

Outpatient treatment program developed specifically for use with offenders

• Addresses criminogenic needs:
  • Criminal thinking
  • Anti-social attitudes & associates
  • Impulsive behavior
  • Lack of empathy
  • Substance abuse

• Evidence-based curriculum based on Cognitive Behavioral Theory
  • Addresses risk factors
  • Develops key coping and problem solving skills
  • Positive social development
  • Relapse prevention

• This program uses a highly-interactive, workbook-based resource for criminal thinking, drug and alcohol abuse, relapse prevention, & community integration, including:
  • Dealing with People in New Ways
  • Dealing with Discomfort
  • Facing Your Responsibilities
  • If You Lapse
  • Making Positive Steps to Take Control of Your Life
  • Avoiding the Negative

• Additional session topics:
  • Managing Your life: It Starts with the Basics of Goal Setting
  • Coping Skills and Interventions for Specific Issues
  • A Guide to Using Your New Coping Skills
  • Self-Analysis: Review of Relapse Prevention Plans
  • Recovery: Self Evaluation and Intervention Planning
  • Healthy Relationships and Healthy Boundaries
  • Avoiding Your Old Family “Traps”
  • Reasons to Change
  • Key Elements of Change