Through collaboration with law enforcement agencies, courts, and correctional agencies and facilities, Advocates provides services designed to prevent incarceration, help individuals while they are incarcerated, and to successfully reintegrate offenders back into their communities.
Jail Diversion Program
Our Jail Diversion Program has received wide acclaim for integrating clinical responders with the police process in order to stem crises resulting from behavioral disorders. Under the program, our mental health experts train and work alongside the Framingham Police Department and are available 24/7 to help evaluate questionable behavior and determine appropriate treatment. Our jail diversion initiative was awarded the “Distinguished Service Award” from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.
Please visit the Framingham Jail Diversion Program website by clicking here.
To contact the Jail Diversion Program, email jdp@framinghampd.org.
Phone: 508-628-1349, ext. 595
Second Chance Juvenile Diversion Program
This program is for first time juvenile offenders and their families who are referred to us from the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office. This is a strength-based program that utilizes a curriculum and activity-based model and is led by a Master’s level clinician. Participants (teens) learn new skills that aid in making good choices in various areas that often challenge adolescents. The focus is placed on identification of emotions and coping styles and on behavioral containment. This is not a psychotherapy program, and thus, does not explore deep seated issues. As this is a group and family model, opportunities are provided for participants and families to take emotional risks with sensitivity to needs for privacy and boundaries. Family meetings in which each participant and his or her parents (or foster parents) meet with a group clinicians are essential because family involvement in a process like this can significantly aid in avoiding future court involvement and in making pro-social decisions.
Phone: 978-772-1846
Fax: 978-772-2364
Advocates Substance Abuse Counseling
Located at the Regional Reentry Center in Framingham
The purpose of this program is to help formerly incarcerated adults in need of support and services appropriately and successfully transition into the community. A substance abuse counselor connects individuals with concrete services and provides time-limited counseling on an urgent basis. The counselor also makes referrals to outpatient and emergency services programs so that mental health and substance abuse issues can be addressed.
Advocates Driver Alcohol Education Program
Phone: 978-772-1846
Fax: 978-772-2364
Ayer Drug Court Program
Drug Courts take action to help the person change their life in order to stop criminal activity instead of focusing only on punishment of the offender. Nationally, Drug Courts are the primary model for addressing addictions by utilizing the judicial system’s authority to meet the policy goals of public safety and child welfare. An estimated 80% of individuals involved in the criminal justice system are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. This addiction is the primary cause of their criminal activity.
The Ayer Drug Court Program is a post-adjudication outpatient program; eligible participants can enter the program at various stages of case processing, including arraignment, pre-trial hearing and violation of probation hearings.
Program length: 52 weeks, including four phases of treatment.
Target population: Male and female non-violent adult offenders who reside within the court’s jurisdiction, are assessed as having an alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) problem and have no prior record of violent offense.
Each participant entering the program has a legal disposition that includes the potential for incarceration or a defined house of correction (county correctional institution) sentence that has been suspended.
Phone: 978-772-1846
Fax: 978-772-2364
In-Prison Mental Health Services
Advocates provides comprehensive mental health services at the Worcester County Jail & House of Correction. Our team social workers, psychiatrists, nurses and psychologists provide services for the 1,300+ inmates at the facility. Services include but are not limited to mental health screening; mental health services; psychopharmacological services; crisis intervention; and forensic evaluation.
Worcester County House of Correction
5 Paul Tivnan Drive
West Boylston, MA 01583
(508)-854-1800, x2287
Sandy Fallon
Acton Outreach Site
Phone: 978-263-7402
Fax: 978-772-7605
Transitions Newsletter
Transitions is a reentry resources newsletter by Advocates' Regional Reentry Center
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