1. Why Does Housing Matter with the Justice Involved Population?
Jessica Foy
Acting Supervising Probation Officer

2. Objectives
Build an understanding of Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) case planning and the impact these practices can have on community safety through the reduction of recidivism.
Create an understanding of the use of the COMPAS assessment in determining housing needs.
Describe current residential needs of the population supervised by Probation and current resources.

3. Definition of EBP
Programs & interventions that have been proven to reduce recidivism
Research-based

4. National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Evidence-Based Practice Model

5. The COMPAS Tool

6. What is COMPAS?
Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions
COMPAS is a computerized decision-support system for criminal justice placement, supervision and treatment planning and management
Assesses Recidivism Risks – Low/Medium/High
Identifies Criminogenic Needs
Numerical Scores
Generates Case Plans
Create Referrals through the Community Resource Directory
Needs Scores
1-5
Unlikely
6-7
Probable
8-10
Highly Probable

7. COMPAS Risk Assessment Output Pre-Trial Release Risk
Violent Recidivism
General Recidivism
Pre-Trial Release Risk

8. COMPAS Assesses Criminogenic Risk Factors
Characteristics, traits, problems, or issues of an individual that directly relate to the individual's likelihood to re-offend and commit another crime.
Two Types of Criminogenic Risk Factors:
1) Static
2) Dynamic

9. Static Criminogenic Risk Factors
Static factors cannot be changed or addressed by any sort of program or therapy in the prevention of future crimes.
Generally, these are structural elements of a person's life that partially led them to commit crime.

10. Examples of Static Criminogenic Needs
Age at the time of first arrest
Criminal history
Residing/ raised in a single-parent home
Family Criminality

11. Dynamic Criminogenic Risk Factors
Changeable factors that may be in flux throughout one’s lifetime
These needs can be addressed by therapy, training, education, and/or targeted programming and subsequently altered to result in more law-abiding behavior.
Also called Criminogenic Needs

12. Examples of Dynamic Criminogenic Needs Assessed by the COMPAS Tool
Anti-Social Attitudes and Personality
Anti-Social Associates
Family/Marital Problems
Few Pro-Social Activities/Isolation
Work/Education Problems
Substance Abuse
Residential Instability

13. The Balanced Approach to Supervision
Behavioral Management
Driven by Court Order
Compliance Checks
4th Waiver Searches
Drug Testing
Behavioral Shaping
Customized Case Plans
Use of Incentives & Sanctions
Contacts support Case Planning Objectives
Motivational Interviewing
PO as case manger

14. What is Residential Instability?
Measures the degree to which the individual has long-term ties to the community.  Does not mean transient.
A low score indicates a person who has a stable and verifiable address, local telephone and long term ties. 
A high-score indicates a person who does not have a regular living situation, has lived at the present address for a short time, is isolated from family, has no telephone, and/or frequently changes residences. 
Cut-off Scores: Low 1-5, Medium 6-7, High 8-10.

15. Number of Probationers assessed to be High Needs for Residential Instability
Supervision Level
Number of Individuals with COMPAS Assessments
Number of Individuals Scoring High in Residential Instability
Percentage of Individuals with Assessments Scoring High in Residential Instability
Formal Low and Medium Risk 
                                    7,347
                                 2,404
33%
Formal High Risk
                                       979
                                           521
53%
PRCS
                                    1,561
                                           853
55% MS
                                       629
                                           274
44%
Total
                                  10,516
                                       4,052
39%

16. How do Officers address the need?
Probation has the ability to house AB109 offenders scoring high in Residential Instability through contractual agreements with several different housing providers in the community.
Referrals are made to address that criminogenic need in an effort to lower the offender’s likelihood to reoffend.
Referrals are included in the offender’s case plan and made through the CRD.

17. CRD: Community Resource Directory
Comprehensive directory of community based resources designed to link and match services to address criminogenic needs.
Allows open communication between the provider and the Probation Officer
20 different housing providers with a total of 51 houses
Does not include homeless shelters

18. CRD Referral Form

19. CRD Referral Form (Cont.)

20. CRD Referral Form (Cont.)

21. Current Funded Housing Providers
Probation contracts directly with the following providers to provide housing for realigned adult and youthful offenders:
Second Chance
Foundations in Recovery
JH Therapeutic
National Crossroads
Etheridge Center

22. Enhancing Public Safety
The assessment is the foundation of effective case planning
Resource utilization
Advocacy

23. Jessica Foy, Acting Supervising Probation Officer
Contact Information:
Jessica Foy, Acting Supervising Probation Officer
Intake & Reentry Unit at the Community Transition Center
Collaborative Courts Division
San Diego County Probation Department