Specifications include, but are not limited to: The UCS Office of Court Administration’s (OCA) Division of Professional and Court Services (DPCS) is soliciting proposals via this Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purpose of establishing a contract to provide evaluation services for the Middletown City Drug Treatment Court (DTC). UCS operates problem-solving courts, among them drug courts, which help judges and court staff respond to the needs of litigants and the community. Problem-solving courts look to the underlying issues that bring people into the court system, employ innovative approaches to address those issues, and seek to simplify the court process for litigants. A drug court involves an intervention by the court in cooperation with a team of specialists in social services, treatment, and criminal justice professionals in the local community. In return for a promise of a reduced sentence, appropriate non-violent addicted offenders are given the option of entering voluntarily into court-supervised treatment. The rules and conditions of participation are clearly stated in a contract entered into by the defendant, the defense attorney, the district attorney, and the court. Grant funds will be used to expand access to treatment services for participants in the Middletown City Drug Treatment Court. Funds will support a resource coordinator, provide a bi-lingual, Spanishspeaking Peer Recovery Advocate, and continuous alcohol monitoring. The DTC’s focus will be to increase the number of Spanish-speaking participants. The project goals are to: (1) support treatment engagement and recovery by addressing participants’ physiological, psychosocial, behavioral, functional, and other needs; and (2) reduce relapse and recidivism through treatment services, alcohol monitoring, case management, peer recovery advocacy, and best practices. 1. Design a process and outcome evaluation plan in collaboration with the Court; 2. Develop evaluation instruments to ensure collection of all data required to monitor grant-related goals and objectives; 3. Review current databases to ensure all necessary quantitative and qualitative data is collected; 4. Assist the Court in collecting and compiling data for continuous quality assurance improvement for the participant intake process, integration of substance use disorder counseling, service delivery, program completion rates, and effectiveness in reducing recidivism; 5. Ensure all necessary quantitative and qualitative data is collected for quarterly and annual evaluation reports and as required by Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for periodic reporting pursuant to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). 6. Assist the Court on an ongoing basis to track participants to ensure GPRA court-client outcome data is being collected at the appropriate points in time as required by BJA. 7. Prepare quarterly and annual evaluation reports that include analyses of outcome and process findings and provide to the project’s Workgroup. 8. Complete monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and/or annual reports as required to BJA. 9. Provide feedback to the Court on an ongoing basis to promote continuous quality improvement and make recommendations for data informed policy changes; and 10. Produce a final program evaluation report.
