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99 Days and A Get Up Reentry Training Program

Category: Crime & Legal-Related - Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Beneficiaries: General Public/Unspecified; Adults; Offenders/ex-offenders
Priority: 3
Budget: $4,371.00

The 99 Days and A Get Up Training Program is designed to teach the client how to make the necessary changes to first survive in the community, secondly adapt to it, and finally integrate into it. Integration into the community implies that the person will interact legally within
the community, adopt broad community values and behaviors and find peace, dignity and commitment in doing so.

The 99 Days Training Program is soundly based on theory and empirical knowledge, as well as 30 years of experiential insight. The program is designed to teach the practical and psycho-social skills
needed by people who are about to exit a prison culture and take on the demands of community life. The overall goal of arrest-free living can only be achieved by providing a reference framework that will allow the participant to successfully manage the myriad situations that he or she will encounter upon reentry into modern society.

The program is structured to guide the participant through a series of learning exercises that begin with the development of decision making skills and tools for emotional control. Activities that develop an action plan are presented in the order in which they will be needed, with the
first period addressed being the last portion of incarceration. To reduce anxiety, participants first complete activities about hypothetical scenarios before addressing similar activities that are specific to themselves.

The 99 Days and A Get Up Training Program is composed of an easy- to-use trainer’s manual, a student handbook and student workbook. The trainer’s manual contains a series of student exercises which follow and expand upon the progressive stages of the handbook and workbook.

Definition of long-term success:

As this program is holistic in nature and built upon the recognized cognitive - behavorial methodology, the program's creators envision long term success as five years of arrest-free living. Success includes stable employment and stable family life. OPEN, INC is currently, in partnership with the State of West Virginia, in measuring the program's success in reducing the recidivism rate in program participants.

Success for the participants requires that they make lasting changes in their behaviors and interactions with others. The change model of Prochaska, Norcross, and DiClemente was used in the development of the Trainers Manual and Workbook. The program takes the client through the Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, and Determination stages. The client begins work on the Action stages during the last six months of incarceration, following program completion.

 Prime the individual socially to function effectively in the community.

 Assist in the creation of realistic plans for survival in the community.

 Provide tools to maintain motivation for continued success after prison.

Basis for the Program:

The 99 Days Training program is soundly based on theory and empirical knowledge, as well as 30 years of experiential insight. The program is designed to teach the practical and psycho-social skills needed by people who are about to exit a prison culture and take on the demands of community life. The overall goal of arrest-free living can only be achieved by providing a reference framework that will allow the participant to successfully manage the myriad situations that he or she will encounter in modern society.

Success for the participants requires that they make lasting changes in their behaviors and interactions with others. The change model of Prochaska, Norcross, and DiClemente was used in the development of the Trainers Manual and Workbook. The program takes the client through the Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, and Determination stages. The client begins work on the Action stages during the last six months of incarceration, following program completion.

Definition of short-term success:

Definition of short-term success is that users actually complete the program. This evidences that the participant is willing to embrace change.

Success monitored by:

* Completion rates of program participants; Tracking of recidivism rates by program participants (underway in West Virgnia).

Evidence of success:

Evidence of success is reduced recividism levels by program participants. OPEN INC is currently engaged a study, in conjunction iwth the State of West Virginia to determine the success of the program. Given that the Parole Board in West Virginia requires that anyone going before it complete the program, evidences success, at least at the professional level.