Center For Alternative Sentencing And Employment Services Inc

Programs: Youth programs: cases served 719 youth in fy17 in ten different programs. The court employment project (cep) is an alternative-to-incarceration program for young people age 16-24 who would otherwise face jail or prison as the result of a felony conviction. Cep consists of community supervision and an individualized program plan that may include education (e. G. , re-enrollment in school or preparation for and/or taking the nys high school equivalency (hse) exam), job-readiness, internship/job placement, family, mental health, and substance use services. For younger teens, cases provides 1) choices, an alternative-to-detention program for youth age 12-15 with cases pending in family court, and 2) peak, a program for family court-involved youth age 17 and under on probation--both programs provide afterschool tutoring, employment-readiness, prosocial, and recreational services. Brooklyn and queens justice corps, coney island training and education, harlem plus, and jobs for america's graduates new york (jag ny) are voluntary programs that provide pre-hse and hse instruction and testing, case management, employment-readiness training, internships, job placement assistance, and/or college application assistance to young people involved in the justice system. We also provide a next steps mentoring program for young people in brooklyn. During fy 17, on average more than 68% of youth participants successfully completed their cases program, with nearly 300 youth placed in subsidized summer jobs, 129 placed in unsubsidized employment, 41 completing 8-10 week paid internships, and 30 earning their hse diploma at cases.

adult behavioral health programs (abhp): cases' abhp served 3,616 participants in fy17. The nathaniel assertive community treatment (act) team, an alternative-to-incarceration program for adults with serious mental illness who would otherwise face jail or prison as the result of felony convictions; manhattan act; and three forensic act teams are state-licensed programs that work with individuals with serious mental illness, providing intensive, mobile services to clients in their community settings including counseling, nursing, psychiatry, housing assistance, and as needed supported employment and court advocacy. Our intensive mobile treatment (imt) team also provides a full range of community-based treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation, and peer support services to adults with serious mental illness and a history of significant dysfunction in the community. Cases' start program provides an alternative to incarceration/alternative sanction primarily for individuals with a history of frequent low-level/misdemeanor criminal involvement, many of whom have behavioral health issues including mental illness. Start provides assessments and individualized programming including counseling, community service, discharge planning, and linkages to services in the community. Our court-based intervention team (cirt) is a multi-disciplinary alternative to incarceration/detention that addresses immediate needs for income supports, health insurance, and group treatment as well as providing service linkages for educational, vocational training, and employment services. The supervised release program, an alternative to monetary bail and pretrial detention for individuals assessed as low-risk for felony re-arrest. Supervised release includes community supervision, court reporting, and referrals to ongoing support services in the community. In fy17, an average 70% of participants successfully completed their abhp, with program staff making 2,270 service referrals on behalf of our clients. For participants receiving voluntary aftercare from start, rearrest rates decreased by more than half in the year after beginning cases' services compared with the previous year. In nathaniel act, 92% of clients who successfully completed the program in fy15 had no new felony conviction two years after leaving cases' services.

clinic services: in fy17, cases' nathaniel clinic served 539 clients, a 35% increase from fy16. The nathaniel clinic is a state-licensed article 31 clinic providing outpatient mental health treatment for individuals and their families, including individual and group counseling. The nathaniel clinic also provides integrated primary care, as well as substance use and legal services all at a single site for clients age 13 and older. An evaluation of the change in depression scores for clinic clients whose validated baseline assessment at intake indicated moderate to severe depression found that at regular re-assessment intervals that depression symptoms had improved at statistically significant rates.