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Objectives

Adult Community Corrections

  • Enhance communication and collaboration within the division and with all department entities by utilizing the Community Corrections Division communication paln and improving follow-up on assigned tasks.
  • Ensure appropriate placements of offenders in alternatives to incarceration and oversee programs providing a continuum of care and re-entry options in order to successfully monitor 80% of offenders in the community.
  • Reduce recidivism and return rates by utilizing specialized professionals and programs in community corrections.
  • Cultivate consistency in processes including filing materials, electronic data entry, contracts/purchasing, and policies and procedures through program/facility audits and reports from the OMIS system.
  • Improve staff wellness, recruitment and retention by offering staff appreciation, specialized training opportunities, incentives, career plans, and upward mobility.
  • Guarantee officer and public safety by utilizing the department's safety committee and providing officers with tools and equipment necessary to protect themselves as well as hold offenders accountable through skill development, intervention hearings, and disciplinary sanctions.
  • Gain adequate funding to continue current community corrections programs and also develop new programs to effectively manage the offender population and offender needs and encourage successful reintegration into the community.