Curriculum-based mental health and substance abuse education, relapse prevention, re-entry planning and referrals to community resources. Includes jail diversion, forensic services, restoration to competency, advocacy, discharge planning, and referrals for inmates with serious mental illness.
Jail Educational Services
- Provided to inmates at Virginia Beach Correctional Center
- Voluntary Participation
- 20 Week curriculum-based education modules for inmates with substance use/co-occurring disorders
- Referrals & community resources for continuity of care after release from Virginia Beach Correctional Center
Forensic Services
- Advocacy for seriously mentally ill inmates
- Intensive discharge planning
- Referrals to other services as needed
- Restoration to competency for seriously mentally ill inmates
Mental Health Division
- Intervention program providing an alternative to incarceration by diverting persons with serious mental illness, substance use disorders or co-occurring disorders who come into contact with the judicial system.
Community Corrections
- Supervision for all court ordered requirements to court referred, non-violent misdemeanor and felony clients
- Development of community service work sites
- Random drug and alcohol tests
- Compliance monitoring
Pretrial Services
- Investigates and interviews clients arrested on state and local warrants and detained in jails awaiting bail hearings
- Assists judicial officers in making bail release decisions
- Random drug and alcohol tests
- May seek capiases or order of show cause
- Monitors treatment compliance