Correctional Therapeutic Community (CTC)
Correctional Therapeutic Community (CTC) for Substance Abusers is an in-prison residential treatment intervention for incarcerated offenders who have histories of multiple drug-involved arrests and chronic substance abuse, are eligible for the in-prison work release program, and are 6 months from prison release. It is designed to reduce any type of rearrest, increase abstinence from illicit drug use, reduce illicit drug use relapse, and increase postrelease employment among participants. The 6-month intervention is provided as part of a work release program in which participants become residents in an in-prison work release therapeutic community facility separated from the rest of the prison population. Below are a few key documents about CTC:
- Correctional Therapeutic Community (CTC) Training_Overview for Those Adopting the Program.pdf
- Introduction to the Therapeutic Community.pdf
- A Statewide Integrated Quality Assurance Model for CTC Programs.pdf
- ONDCP Report_The Prison Based TC Standards Development Project.pdf
- Readings in Theory Research and Practice.pdf
- Strategic Solutions Substance Abuse Program Model.pdf
- Treating Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders in Corrections.pdf
More information about the Correctional Therapeutic Community (CTC) Program, can be found on the NREPP site.