Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
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 and transition strategies aimed at managing addiction and addressing criminogenic needs. These strategies are reinforced through development of relapse prevention and rehabilitative action plans with actionable goals and tasks that promote practical application of learned skills such as problem-solving, communication, self-awareness, and self-regulation. CBI is a core component of the Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment (ISUDT) program which provides timely and effective programming and transition to the community for incarcerated persons with SUDs, with the goals of saving lives, reducing avoidable health complications and costs, improving public safety, and promoting healthier communities.
All incarcerated persons 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: program readiness, anger management, victim impact, criminal thinking, and family dynamics. 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 22 weeks.
Aftercare
Incarcerated persons with more than four months to serve and that have previously completed CBI for SUD and have 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 persons who screen and assess positive for having a SUD need, and who have six months or less to serve. This includes one mandatory educational session, materials participants may work on independently, informational resources about self-help groups within the CDCR and services available upon release. Participants may request an additional session as needed.
Locations
Available at all CDCR institutions.