Modified Therapeutic Community for Social Reinsertion
Problems addressed
Drug abuse
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Seniors (60 years and older)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
United States
Description

This is a community monitoring program for people released from the prison system who have been diagnosed with mental disorders and/or psychoactive substance use.
It aims to promote the independence of those individuals through reinsertion into the job market, medication monitoring, recovery from substance use (Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous), monitoring in a therapeutic community (including psychoeducational group, counseling, and emotional and behavioral training), and the Criminal Justice system.
The service is carried out for six months, with a frequency of three to seven days a week, and the workload consists of three to five hours a day.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that, after one year of follow-up, program participants had experienced a statistically significant reduction in drug abuse: 75% of participants did not use illegal drugs, compared to 56% of participants in the control group, who did not receive the intervention [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Sacks, S., Chaple, M., Sacks, J. Y., McKendrick, K. & Cleland, C. M. (2012). Randomized trial of a reentry modified therapeutic community for offenders with co-occurring disorders: Crime outcomes. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 42(3), 247–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2011.07.011

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