RFP-DCP-18-06 - Need for Residential Component to the DC Community Transitional Ct

Summary of Specifications:
The County of Dutchess is engaged in extensive Alternatives to Incarceration programming. One very successful program currently in place is our Community Transitions Center, a day reporting program, which provides a wide range of services to a population of primarily young adults. The clientele consists of individuals who lack any positive support system at home or in the community while they are participants in and once they leave the Day Reporting Center. It has been proposed that adding a residential component to this program will significantly increase the chances of the probationers' success. There are numerous anecdotal examples of this concept but there is, at this point, no contrete statistical documentation to justify a program of this type. The County is seeking an analysis of the past and current populations of those attending our Day Reporting program and related jail populations to determine if there is in fact a documentable need for a residential component to the Day Reporting Program.