The Adult Redeploy Illinois’ 2012 Annual Report is now available on the ARI website. The report provides interested jurisdictions, policymakers and the general public important information on progress to-date in the program, including a sampling of success stories from ARI sites.
The report details a year of great impact:
A March 10th Bloomington Pantagraph article highlights the McLean County Adult Redeploy Illinois program. The article references the success of the McLean County’s juvenile diversion program and showcases the County’s unique intensive supervision program, funded through ARI, as a response to local needs. Read the article here:
Or view the Success of juvenile ‘redeploy’ program for felons sparks an adult form article in PDF.
On March 28th and 29th, representatives from Adult Redeploy Illinois programs across the state will gather in Bloomington for the 2013 All-Sites Summit. The event will include presentations from the Illinois Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health and Justice and the Corrections Institute of the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati, along with a panel on best practices from the field featuring ARI site representatives. Stakeholders from both implementation and planning grant sites will participate including public defenders, state’s attorneys, Judges, probation officers and treatment providers. Seventy individuals representing 18 different jurisdictions in Illinois plan to attend.
Adult Redeploy Illinois recently welcomed two new jurisdictions to the program, Crawford and McDonough Counties. Crawford County, a part of the 2nd Judicial Circuit in south eastern Illinois, will use ARI funds to expand and enhance their current drug court, in operation since January 2011. The county will purchase drug testing equipment and contract with a counselor to work with drug court defendants. The ARI funds allow for an increase of the drug court capacity and overall efficiency, including rapid drug test results to maintain offender accountability and the presence of the counselor at all drug court meetings to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration.
McDonough County, located in west central Illinois, begins implementation of an Adult Redeploy Illinois program in conjunction with neighboring Knox County, becoming the third county in the 9th Judicial Circuit to implement an ARI program. The Knox and McDonough collaboration is an important step in the eventual goal to implement ARI across the 9th Judicial Circuit. McDonough County will use ARI funds to implement a drug court following Knox County’s model. The county will purchase drug testing supplies, contract with a treatment provider, and hire a part-time probation officer to work solely with drug court defendants. Additionally, the new program will provide a training of evidence-based Seeking Safety curriculum to the entire 9th Judicial Circuit.
The Adult Redeploy Illinois website now features detailed “snapshots” of the ten initial ARI pilot sites. The documents, located under the "local programs" tab on the ARI website, highlight the distinct ARI diversion programs operating in each jurisdiction. In addition to information on the specific program operations, other details provided include the specific target population and 25% reduction goal, evidence based practices in use, and an overview of the jurisdiction. The snapshots are intended to provide information to Illinois jurisdictions interested in exploring implementation of an ARI program, share program ideas with current ARI programs, and inform criminal justice policy stakeholders and the general public on specific ARI program in operation. View the Adult Redeploy Illinois Sites "Snapshots".
At its December 3rd meeting, the Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board (ARIOB) approved a plan to offer one-time investment grants to current and potential ARI sites. The funds for these grants are state dollars that are available immediately and must be expended in full by June 30, 2013.
ARIOB is interested in funding in the following areas:
These one-time funds must be used to help jurisdictions meet the goals of Adult Redeploy Illinois, namely to reduce the number of non-violent offenders being sent to prison by implementing evidence-based assessments, programming, and data-sharing. For more details, please contact Mary Ann Dyar, Program Administrator, at 312-793-8949 or maryann.dyar@illinois.gov.
The Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board is offering planning grants to jurisdictions interested in exploring the implementation of an Adult Redeploy Illinois program to increase local alternatives to incarceration. For further details visit the Planning Grant Notice webpage.
This September, Adult Redeploy Illinois staff and board members conducted site visits to four ARI pilot sites. The site visit team traveled to and met with program representatives in Madison County, Winnebago County, McLean County and Cook County. The goal of the site visits is to monitor progress and identify areas where technical assistance might be needed. Site visits consist of in-depth program descriptions, observations of court calls, discussions on fidelity to the program’s model (drug court, mental health court, intensive probation supervision), and a candid sharing of lessons learned. Annual site visits will continue beyond the pilot phase of the Adult Redeploy Illinois program, to support ongoing improvement in local, evidence-based alternatives to incarceration that reduce crime and recidivism at a lower cost to tax-payers.
On Wednesday, October 10, the Macon County Adult Redeploy Illinois program presented in Chicago to an audience of 250 at the Robert B. Wilcox Symposium on Criminal Justice, sponsored by Protestants for the Common Good. The symposium, titled Serving Our Communities: Alternatives to Incarceration, Models for Diversion, featured Macon County’s ARI program of intensive probation, evidence-based treatment and a Community Restorative Board component. Representatives from the Macon County program presented alongside other leading diversion programs from across the country, such as Seattle’s L.E.A.D. (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) program, and the Milwaukee-based Treatment Alternatives and Diversion (TAD) program. Other speakers included Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, DHS Secretary (and ARIOB co-chair) Michelle Saddler, and ARIOB member Walter Boyd, who is Director of Criminal Justice Programs for Protestants for the Common Good. The Adult Redeploy Illinois staff is grateful to Protestants for the Common Good for hosting this important conversation, and applauds Macon County for making the trip to Chicago and sharing their model program.
The Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to grant funds to counties, groups of counties or judicial circuits to expand alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenders.
Through this RFP, funding is being provided for planning, expansion, extension, and implementation ramp-up efforts for local Adult Redeploy Illinois sites. The deadline for the Adult Redeploy Illinois Request for Proposals has been extended from Friday, September 28th to Tuesday, October 9th. Early submissions are appreciated. The grant period runs from November 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.
As of June 2012, ARI staff will provide relevant and timely information to stakeholders from the ten ARI pilot sites via a new listserv. Participants will hear about useful webinars, recent publications and upcoming events, such as conferences. Please contact Lindsey LaPointe at Lindsey.lapointe@illinois.gov to join the listserv.
Adult Redeploy Illinois staff conducted an informal visit with the program staff of Cook County's ARI program on June 21st, both sitting in on a court staffing and observing a court call. Through ARI, Cook County operates a modified version of Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), a relatively new model involving swift and certain sanctions for probation violators. The program seeks to reduce drug use, decrease new crimes, and avoid further incarceration. The Cook County ARI program enrolled its first participant in February 2012 and currently has over 100 participants enrolled in the program.
For further information about the HOPE model of probation, visit: http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/community/drug-offenders/hawaii-hope.htm
Read the most comprehensive evaluation of the HOPE model to date at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/229023.pdf
Staff of Adult Redeploy Illinois and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority traveled to Knox and Fulton counties on May 15th and 16th to visit the Adult Redeploy Illinois sites in Galesburg and Lewiston. Both sites have used ARI funding to operate adult drug courts as a way to divert non-violent, drug-involved offenders from prison and into treatment. The site visit team met with broad groups of stakeholders in the drug courts including the judiciary, state's attorneys, public defenders, probation officers, and treatment and service providers. The team also got to observe the Knox County Drug Court in action. The purpose of the visits was to gather information on program implementation and offer technical assistance, as needed. Adult Redeploy Illinois thanks thesecounties for graciously hosting the team and sharing all aspects of their programs.
On March 26, 2012, Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) hosted an All-Sites Meeting in Bloomington, Illinois for the ten pilot sites in the program. In total, 48 participants from across the state attended the day-long meeting focused on technical assistance, information sharing and networking. A prime focus of the meeting was how to most effectively implement evidence-based practices in local ARI programs.
Adult Redeploy Illinois has ten pilot sites across the state, each with a unique design tailored to the needs of the local community.
The Adult Redeploy Illinois 2011 Annual Report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation and projected impact of the program.
