Volunteers of America's Commitment to Corrections Programs
Volunteers of America is committed to demonstrating positive outcomes of corrections programs and educating and informing the public about community-based alternative to incarceration and factors that lead to successful rehabilitation. Our programs include:
Community Corrections Transition & Reunification Program offers intensive and integrated pre and post release case management services to offenders currently incarcerated at the Maine Correctional Center. This program has successfully established collaborative relationships with a multitude of service providers throughout the state of Maine to address the biological, emotional, sociocultural, socioeconomic and spiritual needs of offenders’ transitioning into society.
The Penobscot County Community Corrections Program guides pre-trial defendants back into the community who may otherwise be incarcerated while awaiting trial. The Home Release Program monitors people in the community who have been sentenced and have served a third of the sentence in jail. VOANNE is a member of the Penobscot County Adult Drug Court Team.
Sagadahoc County Community Corrections Programs work with adult offenders and assist them to focus on their behaviors that are causing them difficulties in the community. One objective is to provide support to integrate pre-trial defendants back into the community who may otherwise be incarcerated while awaiting trial. Another objective is to provide important skills that will decrease the likelihood for further violations. An alternative Operating Under Influence (OUI) sentencing program is offered for the first time offenders. A Multiple Offenders Program (MOP), similar to the OUI program, addresses second time offenders.
The Grafton County Academy Program is an alternative sentencing program for prison-bound offenders. It is an innovative diversion program stemming from the “drug court” model. The Academy is a yearlong comprehensive and intensive program that provides for identification, assessment, referral to treatment, case management, and monitoring of drug-dependent offenders. The goal is to provide a comprehensive self-directed, self-improvement plan for eligible offenders that require them to take responsibility for their offense and their rehabilitation.
Family Treatment Drug Court is designed to established drug courts to reduce substance abuse by adult and juvenile offenders in Androscoggin, Waldo and Kennebec Counties in Maine. To learn more, visit the State of Maine's website.
First and Multiple Offender Program provides an alternative to jail that is more attractive to offenders (who pay the full cost of the program). This program provides the criminal justice system with an effective and cost-effective alternative to jail. We also provide a structured program of work, education and community restoration. And, in the end, participants gain an appreciation for the freedom to live in a community that can easily be taken away if important changes in their lives aren’t made.
Words Travel is a program designed to teach literacy to offenders and keep them connected to their children during incarceration. This is a collaboration between Volunteers of America National and Scholastic Books. The curriculum was developed to teach offenders how to read to their children and learn about different genres of literature. Following the curriculum completion participants read and record books for their children. These books are them given to the children together with a tape recorder to listen to them and a backpack to carry everything together. It has proven to be a well liked by parents and children.
Building Futures is giving men and women leaving prison and their families a fighting chance. In fact, participants in this program have a greater than 80 percent chance of a successful transition from prison -- more than double the national average. Now, thanks to the support of a wide coalition of organizations, we are “building” on that success. Through our Building Futures program, men and women will learn construction skills and become certified in the construction trades through the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).
Volunteers of America's Commitment to Corrections Programs
Volunteers of America is committed to demonstrating positive outcomes of corrections programs and educating and informing the public about community-based alternative to incarceration and factors that lead to successful rehabilitation. Our programs include:
Community Corrections Transition & Reunification Program offers intensive and integrated pre and post release case management services to offenders currently incarcerated at the Maine Correctional Center. This program has successfully established collaborative relationships with a multitude of service providers throughout the state of Maine to address the biological, emotional, sociocultural, socioeconomic and spiritual needs of offenders’ transitioning into society.
The Penobscot County Community Corrections Program guides pre-trial defendants back into the community who may otherwise be incarcerated while awaiting trial. The Home Release Program monitors people in the community who have been sentenced and have served a third of the sentence in jail. VOANNE is a member of the Penobscot County Adult Drug Court Team.
Sagadahoc County Community Corrections Programs work with adult offenders and assist them to focus on their behaviors that are causing them difficulties in the community. One objective is to provide support to integrate pre-trial defendants back into the community who may otherwise be incarcerated while awaiting trial. Another objective is to provide important skills that will decrease the likelihood for further violations. An alternative Operating Under Influence (OUI) sentencing program is offered for the first time offenders. A Multiple Offenders Program (MOP), similar to the OUI program, addresses second time offenders.
The Grafton County Academy Program is an alternative sentencing program for prison-bound offenders. It is an innovative diversion program stemming from the “drug court” model. The Academy is a yearlong comprehensive and intensive program that provides for identification, assessment, referral to treatment, case management, and monitoring of drug-dependent offenders. The goal is to provide a comprehensive self-directed, self-improvement plan for eligible offenders that require them to take responsibility for their offense and their rehabilitation.
Family Treatment Drug Court is designed to established drug courts to reduce substance abuse by adult and juvenile offenders in Androscoggin, Waldo and Kennebec Counties in Maine. To learn more, visit the State of Maine's website.
First and Multiple Offender Program provides an alternative to jail that is more attractive to offenders (who pay the full cost of the program). This program provides the criminal justice system with an effective and cost-effective alternative to jail. We also provide a structured program of work, education and community restoration. And, in the end, participants gain an appreciation for the freedom to live in a community that can easily be taken away if important changes in their lives aren’t made.
Words Travel is a program designed to teach literacy to offenders and keep them connected to their children during incarceration. This is a collaboration between Volunteers of America National and Scholastic Books. The curriculum was developed to teach offenders how to read to their children and learn about different genres of literature. Following the curriculum completion participants read and record books for their children. These books are them given to the children together with a tape recorder to listen to them and a backpack to carry everything together. It has proven to be a well liked by parents and children.
Building Futures is giving men and women leaving prison and their families a fighting chance. In fact, participants in this program have a greater than 80 percent chance of a successful transition from prison -- more than double the national average. Now, thanks to the support of a wide coalition of organizations, we are “building” on that success. Through our Building Futures program, men and women will learn construction skills and become certified in the construction trades through the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).