Corrections Concepts, Inc.

The purpose of this department will be to provide all the residents at Habilitation House the opportunity to re-integrate with society as responsible citizens. Positive behavioral change results from professional staff and volunteers working together with the residents they serve to create a community spirit based on sound psychological/sociological methodology. Programs are designed to provide readily accessible, responsible and supportive assistance to the resident in planning and preparation for his future, both within the institution and upon release and to identify new values for successful and responsible living. Counseling Services Staff are not only selected for their professional credentials, experience and proven performance, but they are carefully evaluated as effective role-models capable of inspiring positive change in others. They are, therefore, challenged and commissioned to empathetically promote and prove the benefits and reason for positive change, which occurs as a result of choice, the right motive to change, a decision to change, and a willingness to work for change through an extended process of reinforced practice of moral living principles. Spirit, Soul, and Body, a Total Approach To Criminal Recovery and Relapse Prevention is the CCI adopted holistic treatment model.

Counseling Services does not operate and function in a vacuum, but rather as a part of a whole process designed to promote unit-wide cooperative team efforts. Our approach includes, but is not limited to, a multimodel holistic treatment methodology with a spiritual core nucleus as we serve the need of the whole person, including the emotional, mental and physical dimensions.

A Director of Counseling will be responsible for the overall administration of the counseling department. A Unit Supervisor will be responsible for program management within each individual unit. Six full-time Responsibility Counselors will be responsible for individual case management and will share an average caseload of 84 residents. Psychology and Psychiatry services will be contracted to participate on the counseling team and to serve individual needs. There will be eighteen (18) additional certified substance abuse counselors on staff for a combined counselor to resident ratio of 1 to 24.

A valuable addition to the Counseling Services provisions is CCI’s unique Internship Program.  LCDCs and PCs must record 4000 to 6000 clock hours of practicum in order to receive certification.  The settings for those opportunities are rare indeed. Because the Habilitation House Director of  Counseling is a Certified Clinical Supervisor, those practicum hours are available to Degreed Counselors. Certification requires they must serve without compensation.

Group and individual therapies, family counseling, and interaction with peers and staff, and various program activities are all a part of the therapeutic milieu which is designed to help residents to develop a socially adaptive lifestyle. Included, also, will be an Alcohol/Substance Abuse Program designed to facilitate residents with prior histories of chemical dependency and/or those residents recognized as having committed offenses while under the influence of mood-altering chemicals. A spiritual, l2-Step recovery program will be offered.

The therapeutic community includes vital support services coordination and it is the responsibility of the Unit Manager to serve as Program Team Captain. The total guidance impact team consists of the resident, his counselor (as Captain), his Housing Unit Supervisor, his Vocational Supervisor and the House Chaplain. Blending together in this bonding process, a compartmental success model is established to form an individualized treatment plan designed and aimed in the direction of total regeneration. An aftercare plan is completed prior to re-entry.

( ACA 3-4380, 3-4381, 3-4383, 3-4286, 3-4386, 3-4384, 3-4385, 3-4388, 3-4382)