2009 Kentucky RSAT Program

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 2009 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 Kentucky Department of Corrections will use FY 2009 RSAT funds to continue a residential substance abuse treatment program at the Hardin County Detention Center for Class D inmates. The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program is set up as a therapeutic treatment community model and provides offenders a significant level of treatment services for the six months they engage in programming. The RSAT funds will be used to fund the contract for services through a community mental health provider. Additionally, the project will support significant training for the social service clinicians that work with offenders completing residential treatment programs in prisons and jails.

The program goals are: 1) to screen local and state inmates housed in detention facilities for AODA issues; 2) to support the inmate in facing their addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs; 3) to provide residential substance abuse treatment in a cost-effective manner, with mandated case managed aftercare services; 4) to decrease the number of probation/parole revocations and the re-arrest rate related to substance abuse and the criminal behavior associated with it; and 5) to reduce the number of facility beds occupied by inmates with primarily AODA issues. The program has several objectives planned to work towards meeting the goals necessary to assist the offender in overcoming their addiction. The objectives are to: 1) to provide case management services through the Social Service Clinicians currently working in communities across the state; 2) to coordinate offender sanctions between the Social Service Clinicians and Probation and Parole Officers to decrease the number of probation/parole revocations and the re-arrest rate related to substance abuse and the criminal behavior associated with it; and 3) to provide training to Social Service Clinicians and related staff regarding effective reentry service delivery for offenders nearing release.

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