Page 2072 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 May 2010
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(1) There are four rehabilitation programs currently running at the AMC:
• First Steps Relapse Prevention Program: this is an eight session education, awareness and relapse prevention program designed to ensure all participants gain the skills and tools needed to prevent relapse into substance misuse.
• Solaris Therapeutic Community: the Solaris Therapeutic Community is a 20 bed cottage for participants with substance dependence issues linked to criminal conduct.
• Cognitive Self Change Program: this program teaches a set of cognitive based skills designed to increase awareness of thinking, recognition of risk thoughts and thinking patterns and encourages the production of new thinking.
• Adult Sex Offender Program: this program endeavours to address general offending attitudes and behaviour amongst adult sex offenders, and equip them with the necessary skills, attitudes and motivation to avoid future offending.
There have been three programs that were recently completed and will recommence once there are adequate numbers:
• Health and Wellbeing suite: The Health and Wellbeing suite of programs includes stress management, parenting, conflict resolution, positive communication, budgeting skills, self esteem, goal setting, problem solving and harm minimisation programs.
• Personal Effectiveness Program: This is a personal development program and covers communication, mental fitness and working in groups.
• First Steps to Anger Management: this program is for prisoners with a history of aggressive behaviour.
There are three programs that are scheduled for commencement:
• Alcohol and Other Drug Back in Control Relapse Prevention Program: This program is an 18 session high intensity relapse program designed to assist participants to expand upon and consolidate skills learnt previously in the First Steps Program Relapse Prevention program.
• Violent Offenders Program: This is a high intensity program directed at high risk sentenced mainstream prisoners who have scored as medium or high on the Violent Risk Scale.
• Family Violence Cognitive Self Change Program: This program targets offenders with a history of family violence.
(2) There are a total of 70 prisoners currently enrolled in rehabilitation programs. A further 16 prisoner recently graduated from a program and 26 prisoners are currently enrolled in programs that are scheduled for commencement.
(3) There are 19 remand prisoners and 51 sentenced prisoners currently enrolled in rehabilitation programs. There were six remand prisoners and ten sentenced prisoners that recently graduated from a program. There are no remand prisoners and 26 sentenced prisoners currently enrolled in programs that are scheduled for commencement.
(4) As at 22 March 2010 there were a total of 208 prisoners enrolled in 21 courses. Prisoners can be enrolled in more than one course.
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