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Assessment Guided Life Planning:

The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience

Criminal Justice Research DivisionDarlanne Hoctor Mulmat

dmu@sandag.orgwww.sandag.org/cj

October 16, 2008

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Presentation Overview

• Background on SANDAG and CJRD

• Description of SB 618 Program

• Overview of Evaluation Design

• Use of Assessments

• Preliminary Assessment Data

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What is SANDAG?

• San Diego Association of Governments

• Regional planning and implementation agency for quality of life issues

• Governed by a Board of Directors representing the region’s 19 local governments

• Only council of governments with a Criminal Justice Research Division

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Program Description

• Assessment

• Process Begins Pre-Sentence

• Life Plan

• Multi-Disciplinary Team

• Case Management In Custody & Community

• In-Prison & Community Services

• Community Roundtable

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Assessment Tools• Addiction Severity Index (ASI)• Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE)• Comprehensive Adult Student

Assessment System (CASAS)• Correctional Offender Management

Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)

• Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and Myers-Briggs

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Research Overview

• Process Evaluation: Determine if SB 618 was implemented as planned in San Diego County

• Impact Assessment: Determine what effect(s) the SB 618 program had on participants

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Multiple Methodologies• Meeting attendance and review of minutes• Analysis of standardized assessment information• Compilation of services received in prison and

community• Program partner, key staff, and community surveys• Client & family/friend satisfaction questionnaires• Follow-up interviews with clients• Collection of recidivism data from local and state

databases• Cost-effectiveness analysis

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Participant Characteristics

Age 35.7

Male 83%

Ethnicity

White 43%

Black 33%

Hispanic 19%

Other 5%

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Participant Characteristics (cont.)

Highest Charge Type

Property 54%

Drug 37%

Other 9%

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Needs: ASI Substance Abuse

• 52% Drank Alcohol

• 67% to Point of Intoxication

• 81% Use Drugs

• 52% Used Multiple Drugs

• 53% Used Methamphetamines

• 51% Used Marijuana

• 49% Previous Drug Treatment

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Needs: ASI Social Supports

Level of Closeness

Slight Moderate Considerable

Mother 25% 74% 1%

Father 51% 46% 3%

Siblings 23% 73% 5%

Partner/Spouse 24% 73% 3%

Children 13% 50% 37%

Friends 25% 74% 2%

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Needs: ASI Abuse History

Males Females

Emotional 32% 61%

Physical 20% 54%

Sexual 3% 26%

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Needs: ASI Severity Index

Drug Treatment 6.2

Legal Services 5.6

Vocational Training 4.6

Family/Social Services 3.3

Alcohol Treatment 2.5

NOTE: Scale: 0 to 9

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Needs: TABE & CASAS

TABE

Less than 6.0 15%

6.1 to 9.0 27%

9.1 to 12.8 27%

Above high school (12.9) 31%

CASAS 236.1

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Summary

• High Level of Drug Treatment Needs

• High Level of Education and Life Skills

• Vocational Needs

• Need for Social Supports

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Assessment Guided Life Planning:

The San Diego SB 618 Prisoner Reentry Experience

Criminal Justice Research DivisionDarlanne Hoctor Mulmat

dmu@sandag.orgwww.sandag.org/cj

October 16, 2008