Transcript Release Planning - Prison to Community

DIP Clinic 6th July 2010
Jackie Roberts
WM IDTS RDM
National Treatment Agency
0121 352 5177
CARATS Release Planning
 What’s the purpose?
 What should the plan include?
 Who’s involved?
Looking backwards & forwards..
Physical and
Mental
Health
History of
Drug Use
Employment
and
Education
Personal and
Social Needs
Immediate
risks and
needs
Treatment in
the Past
Priorities
IPP’s (Imprisonment
Public Protection)
PPO’s (Prolific and
Priority Offenders)
Women
Release Planning by the book
 Goal of any intervention is: successful reintegration of
the prisoner
 6 weeks before
 Inform CJITS
 Smooth transition between treatment services –
custody to community
 Involve the CJIT where appropriate
 Release Plan reviews in conjunction with CJIT
Release planning by the book….
 CARATs will have a facilitative
role) in ensuring the prisoner’s
drug misuse is linked to the
wider resettlement agenda
 Harm Reduction
 In addition to completing a
release plan CARAT workers
have responsibility for relaying
and/or re-iterating harm
reduction messages, including
the risk of overdose on release.
The Release Plan should be
drawn up with the prisoner
and should summarise the
prisoner’s drug use prior to
CARATs intervention, the
progress made in prison, what
the main issues are that
should be addressed outside
prison and the arrangements
made with a community drug
agency to continue treatment
post-release.
For remand/short, term
prisoners the SMTA should
feed into a basic Release Plan.
 Release plans can only be
issued to those
bodies/individuals
 to which the prisoner has
given their formal consent.
Release Planning by the book..
 Release is a critical phase and
part of release planning should
include assessment of the need for
immediate support on release.
 It is the joint responsibility of
CARATs and CJIT to facilitate the
best option for the individual:
• Do they require in-reach contact?
• Do they need meeting at the prison gate?
• Do they require ongoing clinical services?
• What special consideration will be needed
for those
 being released a great distance from
home?
Release planning has been
incorporated into the care plan.
 CJITs have been informed.
 Consideration has been given to
family involvement?
 CARAT workers have made use of
Visitor centres where appropriate.
 • A release plan has been drawn up.
 • Healthcare has been consulted
with.
 • Links have been made to other
resettlement agencies in prisons.
Plans… (Care, Transfer, RELEASE)
Completed Objectives
v
Outstanding Issues
Handover to Community …
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This is essential in order to:
• Maximise the treatment gains made in prison;
• Provide opportunities to access services in
circumstances where the sentence was too short
for intervention in prison;
• Ensure continuity of treatment and reduce the risk
of relapse;
• Reduce the risk of overdose inherent in a return to
the use of street drugs after a period of abstinence.