The California Logic Model

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The California Logic Model

• The following pages detail a visual
  representation of the eight evidence-based
  principles and practices, which we call our
  California Logic Model. We refer to this model
  as we provide our remaining recommendations so
  that the reader can conceptualize where each
  recommendation fits in the overall process. The
  California Logic Model is a detailed, sequential
  description of how California should apply the
  eight evidence-based principles and practices and
  what effective rehabilitation programming
  (including treatment) would look like if
  California were to implement our recommendations.

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California Logic Model
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• Step 1 Assign High Risk
• Select and utilize a risk assessment tool to
  assess offender risk to reoffend
• Adoption and utilization of the COMPAS
  assessment
• Normed for female and male populations
• Highest priority given to those offenders
  identified as high risk to reoffend
• Low-risk offenders provided work and life
  skills, personal growth rather than
  rehabilitative treatment programs
• Provide short-term inmates with reentry services

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• Step 2 Assess Needs
• Determine offender rehabilitation treatment
  programming based oncriminogenic and other needs
• Does not include low risk to reoffend offenders
  as identified by COMPAS scores
• Utilize additional evidence-based tools to
  supplement criminogenic needs assessments
• Secondary assessments will triage the level of
  need. High/moderate scores now will refer
  offender to appropriate treatment program

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• Step 3 Develop Behavior
• Management Plan
• Create and monitor a case plan for each offender
• Case plans provide CDCR with the ability to
  keep track of participants as they complete
  assigned rehabilitation programs, comply with
  institutional rules and fulfill their parole
  obligations
• Classification and Correctional Counselors get
  involved with the case plan based on needs

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• Step 4 Deliver Programs
• Select and deliver in prison and in the community
  a core set of programs that covers the six major
  offending programming areas
• Put in place one core program from each of the
  six major offender programming areas
• CDCR currently has Substance Abuse Program
  (SAP), Education, Vocation, Thinking for a
  Change (T4C), and Controlling Anger Learning
  to Manager It (CALM)

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• Step 5 Measure Progress
• Develop systems and procedures to collect and
  utilize programming process and outcome measures
• Internally measure and improve the quality of
  CDCRs rehabilitation programming by collecting
  and assessing benchmark data
• The Office of Research provides quality
  research, data analysis and evaluation to
  strengthen the fidelity process

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• Step 6 Prep for Reentry
• Continue to develop and strengthen it formal
  partnerships with community stakeholders
• Develop formal reentry plans for those with
  high and moderate risk-to-reoffend scores
• Provide transition services (Prison To
  Employment) for all offenders
• Ensure that parole programming and transition
  services respond to the specific needs of female
  offenders
• Life skills track for low risk to reoffend

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• Step 7 Reintegrate
• Modify programs and services delivered in the
  community to ensure those servicestarget
  criminogenic needsassist returning
  offenders(and) identify and reduce risk factors
• Develop services for low-risk to reoffend
  (i.e., ILTAGS)
• Focus programs and services on highest
  criminogenic needs
• Community-based providers to develop and
  deliver programming
• Train parole agents to mitigate risk factors
  and work with resistant parolees

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• Step 8 Follow-Up
• Develop community as a protective factor against
  continuing involvement in the criminal justice
  system
• Develop a strategy for ensuring that the
  community is able to provide the necessary
  health and social services to prisoners and
  parolees after they are discharged from the
  criminal justice system
• Redesign programs based on recidivism studies
• And

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• Step 8 Follow-Up
• Develop structured guidelines to respond to
  technical parole violations based on risk to
  reoffend level of the offender and the
  seriousness of the violation
• Restrict the use of total confinement for
  parole violations to only certain violations
• Develop a parole sanctions matrix that will
  provide parole agents with guidelines for
  determining sanctions for parole violations (now
  being implemented)

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