North Carolina TASC

NC TASC Bridging Systems for Effective Offender Care Management

North Carolina TASC

What is TASC?

While the justice system is concerned about public safety, the treatment community is concerned about changing behavior & reducing personal suffering associated with substance abuse & mental illness.

Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) is a program that connects the justice system & treatment system to improve mental health & reduce drug use & crime in all 100 North Carolina counties.

North Carolina TASC

What TASC Does

• Screening & Assessment for Treatment & Recovery Support Needs, including alcohol & other drug use; type of justice system involvement; medical, family, social, education, employment & treatment histories

• Matching Clients with the Correct Type of Care, Support Services & Providers

• Care Management that coordinates Service Needs & Criminal Justice Requirements by planning, linking, advocating, monitoring, reporting & ongoing assessment of progress

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TASC Eligibility

• Involved in the Criminal Justice System or released from the Dept of Correction after completing a prison treatment program

• Agrees to participate

• Evidence of a history or potential substance abuse &/or mental health problem, including drug-related charges

North Carolina TASC

FY09-10 TASC Statistics

• TASC Served: 17,041

• 79% Male

• 53% Non-White

• 59% less than 31yo– 24% 16-21yo

• 88% Not Married

• 53% No HS Diploma

• 42% Unemployed

Admissions

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TASC Facts

• $1.50 per client per day or $547 per year (2% of the $27,000 average cost of incarcerating a person in a prison in NC for a year)

• 2000 Recidivism Report to the General Assembly*

• 86% had at least 1 previous arrest (mean # 2.6)

• 61% were NOT re-arrested within 2 years of discharge

*NC Sentencing & Policy Advisory Commission

• 43% Abuse & 42% Dependence Diagnosis

• 83% Intermediate Punishment or Community at Risk for Revocation Offenders

• 51% Felony Offenders

• 50% Drug Offenses

• 6 Month Average Length of Stay

• 53% Successfully Completed in FY09-10