Unit Information
Unit 5
Institution Unit Supervisor: Sarah Donovan
Psychiatric Care Supervisor: Keith Frey (AM), Jim Webb (PM)
Social Worker: Rikka Kushava
Psychological Services: James Williams
Recreational
Therapist: Tammy McGinnis
Education: Darrel Prue
Objective Statement
The
Reintegration Unit is designed to provide an environment that promotes
rehabilitation by linking release planning, medication management,
independent living skills, job skills, personal responsibility and
self-control as means of reintegrating the resident back to the
community.
Unit
Vision Statement
Upon
the completion on the Reintegration Unit program, residents will have
had the opportunity to obtain the skills, knowledge and planning needed
to make a successful transition from prison back to the community. They
will have gained knowledge about their mental and physical illnesses and
medications, and will understand the process for obtaining benefits
after release.
Program
Statement
The
Reintegration Unit is a 30 bed structured community. The unit is
designed to provide care and release planning for those residents who
have a history of chronic mental health issues or correctional
institutionalization. The Reintegration Unit treatment team
focuses on developing individualized release plans that are focused on
independent living skills while providing relapse prevention plans.
Through the collaborative development of individualized care plans
between the resident and the treatment team, stressors related to
release planning and community reintegration will be reduced. The
links between the resident, agents responsible for community supervision
and mental health care providers will be established prior to the
resident's release date.
The
Unit operates under a multi-disciplinary treatment model, structured to
provide rapid feedback through constructive consequences/rewards to
modify behaviors. The treatment team consists of an Institution
Unit Supervisor, Psychiatric Care Supervisor, Psychiatrist,
Psychological Services Associate, Social Worker, Psychiatric Care
Technicians, Educational Representative, Recreational Therapist, and the
offender. The unit program receives additional support from staff
involved in other departments within WRC.
The
focus of the Reintegration Unit is to complement and reinforce the WRC
Pre-Release Program, which is an 8-week program during which residents
attend groups and classes facilitated by various disciplines.
Treatment groups include Community Supervision, Job Skills, Release
Group, Life Skills, Relationships, Health Education, and Families and
Parenting. Based upon a resident's capabilities, individualized
Treatment Learning Plans will be developed to encourage and motivate the
resident to perform to his maximum potential while preparing for his
release to the community.
Future
directions for the unit include incorporating an AODA treatment
therapeutic community into the reintegration component of the program.
As with other units at WRC at this time, the unit is in a stage
of “construction” with future developments to be established.
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