Residential treatment within jail settings includes the provision of short-, medium- and/or long-term programming designed to meet the substance abuse and criminogenic needs of the targeted population. Gateway's jail-based residential programs can serve as pre-trial interventions or as treatment that is required through court mandates or sentencing. Gateway's jail-based residential intervention models are developed in response to the specific requests of the contract entity. The flexibility of Gateway's treatment methodology ensures that each program is designed to address the specific needs of the population being served, which may include:

• Modified Therapeutic Communities

  The therapeutic community (TC) treatment methodology is widely accepted as the most effective evidence-based treatment model for correctional settings. As described by Dr. George DeLeon in The Therapeutic Community: Theory, Model and Method (2000), the TC is based on social learning theory and uses the "community as method" approach to effect change in the individual. The entire "community" of offenders in the program are the principal agents of change, and staff guide the process as the "rational authorities" that maintain the integrity and efficacy of the services provided. Trained counselors lead key clinical interventions that compliment and enhance the TC milieu, ensuring that offenders receive the skills, information and experiential opportunities that are essential to an effective program. Gateway has developed and refined its Modified Therapeutic Community model to incorporate additional evidence-based interventions into the program design, including: motivational interviewing, cognitive restructuring, medication-assisted treatment, and ongoing assessment throughout the treatment episode, which all ensure that the treatment interventions within the community are adapted to individual risks and needs.

• Cognitive Intervention Programs (CIP)

  Cognitive Intervention Programs are designed to assist offenders who may not be dependent on alcohol and drugs, but who are still exhibiting behaviors that require clinical interventions. In specific, CIPs are designed to address criminality issues through cognitive restructuring interventions. These programs help offenders learn alternatives to criminal thinking and anti-social behaviors by teaching pro-social thinking patterns and healthy behavioral alternatives to criminal activity. These programs are especially effective with drug-dealing offenders who may not use illicit substances, as they are resistant to the more traditional substance abuse treatment interventions.

• Educational/Didacitic Interventions

  Educational and Didactic Interventions are designed to provide topic-specific information and/or skills to assist with the low-level offender population who does not exhibit risks for substance dependency or abuse. Program curricula include evidence-based interventions that provide substance abuse education, life skills training, vocational/employment readiness training and/or other educational interventions that can prepare offenders to enter society with the skills and information necessary to reduce the likelihood of their return to jail.

Regardless of the level of need and risk, Gateway Foundation Corrections has programs that can successfully return jail inmates to the community as productive, crime-free, drug-free members of society.

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