Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
CBI programs are designed to provide substance use disorder (SUD)-focused education and prevention resources that promote recovery, and teach healthy coping strategies aimed at managing addiction and addressing criminogenic needs. These strategies are reinforced through development of relapse prevention and action plans with actionable goals that promote practical application of learned skills such as problem-solving, communication, and self-awareness. CBI is a core component of the Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment (ISUDT) program which provides timely and effective treatment and transition to the community for incarcerated individuals with SUDs, with the goals of saving lives, reducing avoidable health complications and costs, improving public safety, and promoting healthier communities.
All incarcerated individuals arriving to CDCR with at least 6-months to release are eligible for SUD-focused CBIs. Those with at least 12-month to release are eligible for CBI focused on life skills, which includes curriculum focused on addressing: treatment readiness, anger management, victim impact, criminal thinking, and family planning / parenting. Both CBI programs are delivered three days per week, 2 hours per day. Uninterrupted, CBI-SUD curriculum can be delivered in 16 weeks and CBI-Life Skills can be delivered in 7 months.
Aftercare
Incarcerated Individuals with more than four months to serve and previously competed CBI for SUD and completed or are pending enrollment in Life Skills, are eligible to participate in the CBI Aftercare Program. The Aftercare Program is delivered one day per week, for 90 minutes, for 13 weeks, with materials participants can work on independently between classes.
Short Term Education
CBI Short-Term Education is offered to incarcerated individuals who screen and assess positive for having SUD, and who have six months or less to serve. This includes one mandatory educational session with an AOD counselor, materials participants may work on independently, informational resources about self-help groups within the CDCR and services available upon release. Participants may request an addition session with an AOD Counselor as needed.
Locations
Available at all CDCR institutions.