FY 2007 State and Local Residential Substance Abuse Treatment

The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Formula Grant Program (RSAT) assists states and local governments in developing and implementing substance abuse treatment programs in state and local correctional and detention facilities. The RSAT Program also assists states and local governments in creating and maintaining community-based aftercare services for offenders who are released from institutionally based substance abuse programs. Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Formula Grant funds may be used to implement three types of programs. At least 10 percent of the total state allocation for FY 2007 shall be made available to local correctional and detention facilities (provided such facilities exist) for either residential substance abuse treatment programs or jail-based substance abuse treatment programs as defined below.

The State of Maine's FY 2007 RSAT Program goal is to break the cycle of drugs and violence by reducing the demand for, use of, and trafficking of illegal drugs. To achieve this goal the Maine Department of Corrections, through contracted services, will provide residential substance abuse treatment for incarcerated inmates that lasts at least six to twelve months; is provided in residential treatment facilities set apart from the general correctional population; focuses on the substance abuse problems of the inmate; develops the inmate's cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to solve the inmate's substance abuse and related problems; requires urinalysis and/or other proven reliable forms of drug and alcohol testing for program participants and former participants while they remain in the custody of the state or local government; and focuses on inmates who have six to twelve months remaining in their term of confinement so that they can be released from prison instead of returning to the general prison population after completing the treatment program. The State of Maine will also attempt to, through a competitive Request for Proposal process, to establish a 'Jail Based Treatment' program in county jails(s) that lasts at least three months; makes every effort to separate the treatment population from the general correctional population; focuses on the substance abuse problems of the inmate; develops the inmate's cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills of the participants to solve their substance and related problems; and is effective and based on science.

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