SOP 107.01: Purpose and Objectives - Access to Counseling Services and Programs

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|Authority:
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I. Introduction and Summary:

The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) provides counseling services to
offenders to meet their individualized counseling needs and provide effective case
management and supervision. The Office of Reentry Services will provide guidance
and resources for the scope of services, program coordination, supervision, counseling,
substance use programs, and Special Needs offenders. Inmate Services will inform
other divisions within GDC and agencies outside GDC of the extent and availability
of services and programs for agency population.

II. Authority:

A. O.C.G.A.§§ 19-13-1 and 42-5-20;

B. GDC Board Rules: 125-2-1-.01, 125-4-1-.01, 125-4-1-.02, 125-4-1-.04 125-4-1
.05 and 125-4-1-.06;

C. GDC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): 103.63, Americans with Disabilities

Act (ADA) Title II Provisions; 107.01 Purpose & Objectives - Access to
Counseling Services and Programs 107.03, Staff Development; 107.04, Risk and
Needs Assessment; 107.05 Program Management; 107.07, Peer Evaluator; 107.11,
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs (RSAT); 107.12 Specialized
Reentry Program Prison; 108.01, Education Program Administration; 109.01,
Local Management of Volunteer Services; 209.03, Disciplinary Isolation; 209.06,
Administrative Segregation; 209.07, Segregation-Tier I: Disciplinary, Protective
Custody and Transient Housing; 209.08, Administrative Segregation – Tier II;
209.09, Special Management Unit – Tier III Program; 211.02, Offenders Under
Death Sentence; 227.05, Visitation of Offenders; 210.01, Inmate/Probation Boot
Camp - General Policy; 214.02, Performance Incentive Credit Program - PIC;
215.18, Resident Classification; 219.01, Case Management-Records Maintenance;
220.03, Classification Committee; 220.04, Offender Orientation; 503.01, Faith &
Character Based Initiatives; 503.02, Reentry Pre and Post-Release Planning; and
508.32, MH/MR Case Management Duties; and

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D. ACA Standards: 2-CO-1A-14, 2-CO-4B-04, 2-CO-4F-01, 5-ACI-3D-04 (ref. 4
4277), 5-ACI-3D-05 (ref. 4-4278), 5ACI-5E-01 (ref. 4-4428), 5-ACI-5E-02 (ref.
4-4429), 5ACI-5E-03 (ref. 4-4429-1), 5ACI-5E-04 (ref. 4-4430), 5ACI-5E-05 (ref.
4-4431), 5ACI-5E-06 (ref. 4-4432), 5-ACI-5E-07 (ref. 4-4433), 5-ACI-5E-08 (ref.
4-4434), 5-ACI-5E-09 (ref. 4-4435), 5-ACI-5E-10 (ref. 4-4436), 5-ACI-5F-01
(ref. 4-4442), 4-ALDF-5A-01, 4-ALDF-5A-02, 4-ALDF-5A-03, and 4-ACRS7B-02.

III. Definitions:

A. Administrative Segregation - The Classification Committee, Deputy

Warden/Assistant Superintendent/Unit Supervisor, or in an emergency, the
Warden/Superintendent may place in Administrative Segregation an offender
whose continued presence in the general population poses a serious threat to life,
property, self, staff, or other offenders, or to the security or orderly running of the
facility. Offenders in administrative segregation because of behavioral problems
should be provided with programs conducive to their well-being.

B. Community Social Service Resources - Used to augment counseling services

provided in the institution and coordinated by the Chaplain/Volunteer Coordinator.

C. Data Assessment Plan (DAP) - Specific method for conducting meaningful

contacts and documenting those contacts in Scribe.

1. Data - Data will describe the facts of a session with an offender, including the

offender’s disposition and attitude, the offender’s assessed program needs, and
how the offender is addressing their criminogenic needs.

2. Assessment - Provides the overall impression of the offender contact

including: how did the session go; how this particular session relates to the
overall treatment goals set in the offender’s case plan; where the offender is in
their Stage of Change—and what is their attitude to their case-plan.

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3. Plan - Lists goals, objectives, and reentry interventions, referrals, etc. Includes

the offender’s next steps and the counselor’s next steps to meet the treatment
goals set in the Data section of note.

D. Next Generation Assessment (NGA) - GDC’s assessment tool that identifies the

criminogenic needs of the offenders as well as the programs to address those needs.

E. Offenders Under Transition (O.U.T) - A Cognitive Behavioral Program utilized

in the level 5 TIER II non-mental health facilities designed to enhance an
offender’s motivation to change a problem behavior, combined with programming
to provide new skills. The curriculum is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) treatment concepts.

F. Operational Manual - The facility’s guidebook that details the processes and

systems utilized by Care and Treatment Staff to provide services to the offender
population.

G. Special Needs - Offenders identified as high risk of re-offending with a history of

aggressive and/or sexually assaultive behavior, substance use issues and all other
criminogenic areas identified from the Next Generation Assessment (NGA) or
another qualified professional.

IV. Statement of Policy and Applicable Procedures:

A. It is the policy of the GDC to provide services and programs appropriate to meet

the needs of the offender population. Individual and group counseling
encompasses a delivery of services that may include personal/social adjustment,
drug/alcohol counseling, vocational/educational guidance, family assistance, prerelease/reentry preparation, and job development, as well as other required
counseling assistance. Facility Care and Treatment staff will at least annually
assess the needs of the offender population to ensure that the necessary programs
and services are available to meet those needs. Facilities that house pregnant
offenders will provide a comprehensive counseling program with assistance in

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providing the pregnant offender with information in their expressed desires in
planning for their unborn children. Program plans are made available through
SCRIBE and GDC Website (www.gdc.ga.gov).

Each facility will have a formal mechanism to determine appropriate levels of
counseling services staffing. The mechanism used to determine such staffing levels
includes at a minimum: type of offender population served; type of facility; legal
requirements; and goals to be accomplished. The facility’s use of a "team"
approach and use of paraprofessionals, volunteers, and students also may influence
the numbers of professional staff required.

B. Program Coordination & Supervision:

The Supervising Authority (DWCT/Chief Counselor) or Senior
Counselor/Assistant Superintendent are responsible for the following:

1. Ensure that the administration of counseling services will be supervised by a

qualified and trained person.

2. Planning, updating and developing the Operational Manual that outlines each

area of responsibility of Care and Treatment Counseling Services.

3. Supervising the counseling staff daily. These responsibilities include, but are

not limited to:

a. Scheduling the counselor’s work hours to provide maximum access to

offenders to ensure provisions are made for counseling offenders upon
request and crisis intervention services.

b. Ensuring the appropriate groups have been scheduled to address assessed

needs of offender population and ensure all case plans are completed prior
to their release.

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c. Ensuring adequate and appropriate case documentation by completing case

note reviews on five percent (5%) of all counselor caseloads each month.
This review should include any corrections needed for staff to correct.

d. Reviewing and monitoring individual and group counseling activities to

ensure compliance with established SOP’s and integrity of the program.
Counseling Supervisor will ensure that close-ended programs are started at
capacity. Open-ended programs will be maintained at capacity. The review
of groups and counseling sessions should be documented in the Counselors
Performance Notes and Performance Management Form.

e. Ensuring duties assigned to staff are consistent with training, abilities and

job description.

f. Conducting monthly staff meeting with counseling staff as well as MH/MR

staff where applicable, to include relaying revisions of SOP’s within thirty
(30) days of receipt of newly revised SOP’s.

g. Using the Activity Priority Report in SCRIBE to schedule counseling

programs, using the Master Calendar and Incarcerated Offender Report to
review program enrollment, completions, and terminations.

h. Ensuring offenders are enrolled in classes based on their Target

Completion Dates in the Activity Priority Report and complete the group
they are required to, at least fifteen (15) months prior to their earliest
release date.

i. Ensuring a Master Calendar is developed and kept up to date at the facility

for review.

j. Decreasing offender idleness by scheduling groups and programs during

times when there is little to no offender movement.

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k. Managing and utilizing the counseling budget for the purchase of

counseling programs materials ONLY.

l. Facilities will provide Community Social Service Resources, mentors, and

volunteers to augment the counseling and social services provided in the
institution.

C. The programs and services provided should be comparable for all segments of the

offender population without regard to race, sex, national origin, religious
preference. Counseling services and programs will be scheduled to address the
assessed needs of each offender. GDC prohibits discrimination on the basis of
disability in the provision of services, programs, and activities. Individual and
group counseling encompasses a delivery of services that may include
personal/social adjustment, drug/alcohol counseling, vocational/educational
guidance, family assistance, family planning, parental education, prerelease/reentry preparation, job development, and community services as well as
other required counseling assistance. Individual and group counseling duties
include, but are not limited to:

1. Holding offenders accountable for their behavior during individual/group

counseling services;

2. Providing offenders with opportunities, in both individual and group settings,

to learn skills that will address their criminogenic needs;

3. As resources allow, offering counseling and crisis intervention services and

groups designed for the needs of special populations such as substance use,
Special Needs offenders, sex offenders, HIV+, juveniles, counseling of
pregnant offenders, the elderly, veterans, and special management cases.

4. During individual counseling, the counselor should focus on the thinking and

choices that brought the offender to incarceration and help them develop new
ways of coping as well as goals.

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5. The programs that are offered by the Office of Reentry Services are:

a. Counseling & Substance Use Programs, which include Anger

Management, Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Thinking for a Change
(T4C), Problem Solving Skills in Action (PSSIA), Sex Offender Psychoeducational Program (SOPP), Matrix Early Recovery System (ERS),
Matrix Relapse Prevention (RP), Breaking the Chains of Trauma, Moving
On (Gender responsive-females).

6. Each facility (except Metro RF, Transitional Centers, County Facilities, and

Probation Detention Centers) will offer at a minimum the following programs:

a. Motivation for Change (M4C) or Matrix Early Recovery Skills;

b. Reentry Skills Building: All offenders are required to complete Reentry

Skills Building in addition to completing all assessed program needs.
Performance Incentive Credit (PIC) eligible offenders with no assessed
program needs will obtain all six (6) PIC program points upon the
successful completion of this program;

c. Family Violence if there are enough offenders with the identified need to

start a class;

d. Thinking for A Change (T4C) if there are enough offenders with the

assessed need to justify class;

e. Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT); and

f. Matrix Relapse Prevention, if there are enough offenders with the assessed

need to justify class.

D. Counselors are responsible for case management including documentation,

coordination of services and making appropriate referrals to behavioral programs,

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educational programs, vocational programs, and details. Case management
responsibilities shall be done in accordance with SOP 219.01, Case ManagementRecords Maintenance and may also include, but are not limited to:

1. Providing offenders appropriate supervision through intake admission and

orientation, program coordination, referrals based on individualized case plans,
completion of classification and reclassification, SCRIBE documentation,
generating and/or completing work activity performance reports (WAPR),
parole review summaries, facilitating groups, and assisting in the grievance
resolution process.

2. Assisting offenders with individualized preparation for reentry and adjustment

in the community upon release, including appropriate referrals for residence,
employment, and aftercare arrangements, as well as assistance in obtaining a
birth certificate, driver’s license or state ID, and social security card.

3. Conducting Meaningful Contact with offenders:

a. In State, Private, and County facilities, counselors should conduct a

meaningful contact at a minimum of once every ninety (90) days in
accordance with SOP 220.03, Classification Committee.

b. Counselors are responsible for responding to offenders as needed or upon

request of another staff member. Offenders may use Counselor Request
Form from SOP 220.03, Classification Committee (Attachment 8).

c. Provisions are made for counseling and crisis intervention services. It is the

responsibility of the counselor to continue to monitor their caseload, and
each counselor is expected to exceed the quarterly minimum as needed.

d. In PDCs and TCs, counselors should conduct a meaningful contact at a

minimum of once per month in accordance with SOP 220.03,

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Classification Committee. When possible, counselors should make
themselves available to offenders regularly.

e. Examples of meaningful contacts:

i. The program case-plan should focus on addressing the offender’s NGA
assessed needs, barriers to treatment, and the progress or lack of
towards meeting goals of case-plan.

ii. Offender behavior that should be addressed includes skipping class,
failing to follow instructions, insubordination, refusing programs, etc.

iii. Crisis situations, include death in the family, divorce, sickness of
offender or someone in their family, etc.

iv. The contact must be progressive. Sessions should build off each other
(i.e. review what was discussed in the plan from last session.)

v. Goals should be discussed with the offender and “LIFE” goals should
meet the SMART Criteria—Specific, Measurable, Attainable (under
their control), Realistic, and Time-sensitive.

vi. Discussion of phone lists, the Admissions and Orientation (A & O)
process, visitation list and other case management issues are not
meaningful offender contacts.

4. The DAP meaningful contact should be entered in SCRIBE case notes within

48-hours from the time the offender was seen by his/her counselor.

E. An offender will be assigned to a permanent counselor during initial classification

or at arrival to the institution. An initial DAP interview should be conducted with
the offender within seven (7) calendar days of assignment to a permanent
counselor and/or Admissions & Orientation (A&O) Counselor. If the offender is

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assigned to the A & O Counselor/Dorm, the A & O Counselor will be responsible
for conducting the initial interview session. The A & O contact does not count as
the initial interview. The A & O Counselor will have the same responsibilities as
a permanent counselor while offender is assigned to their caseload. Once an
offender has been reassigned from the A & O Counselor/Dorm to a permanent
counselor, SOP 219.01, Case Management-Records Maintenance regarding
transferring cases will be followed. The purpose of this initial interview will be to
determine critical issues that need immediate attention, create a case plan for
successful reentry, identify any American with Disabilities Act (ADA) needs,
create goals, review the NGA assessed needs on the program case plan and set up
a timeline for programming based on Target Completion Dates. Counselors will
prioritize offenders as follows:

1. Offenders who are at the top of the list on the Activity Priority Report in Scribe.

2. Offenders who are referred by Central Office; and

3. Offenders with earliest Target Completion Dates.

F. Each facility will provide programs that address reentry, criminal thinking

(Cognitive), substance use, sex offenders, vocational, and academic education
needs of the population. Group size should not exceed the guidelines established
in the program curriculum. Groups without a group size guideline shall not exceed
thirty (30) offenders per group, except for 12 Step groups, which have no limit as
to number of attendees.

G. Each psycho-educational group shall have a detailed lesson plan on site approved

by the Office of Reentry Services used by Care and Treatment staff for all sessions
taught.

H. Counselors who are assigned specific groups to facilitate must be trained in the

curriculum through GDC sponsored training (except Reentry Skills Building). All

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trained facilitators must also attend program boosters if offered in the programs
they are trained in.

I. Counseling programs will be offered to accommodate offenders’ schedules,

including those offenders who work or have program details during the day.

1. Optional Groups/Classes: The following optional groups/classes should be

offered at the facility’s discretion depending on their resources and the needs
of the offender: Active Parenting, Family Violence, Statewide Lifer’s
Program, Veteran’s Program. Offenders are also provided religious services
and community resources to assist in their transition to the community.

2. The Office of Reentry Services Programs shall be the priority for offender

placement in programs. Other programs may be provided, but they shall not
conflict with the Office of Reentry Services interventions. Facility Counseling
Resources (Budget) shall be used to facilitate ONLY programs that have been
endorsed by the Office of Reentry Services.

3. For specialized interventions where lesson plans are supplied, the facility shall

not modify the information in the approved lesson plan without prior approval
from the Office of Reentry Services. The MRT offender handbook SHALL
NOT BE COPIED or duplicated in any manner. All offenders assigned to MRT
are required to have their own handbook for them to complete the lessons in
the book. Review the instructions manual that accompanies each program for
specific instructions regarding delivery of the material.

J. Facilities may provide additional programs/services as identified by the case plan.

The additional programs/services may only be offered to offenders who have
completed their required curriculum and the Office of Reentry Services programs.
Written procedures will be developed that ensure access to counseling
services/programs for those offenders not assigned to general population. These
procedures will address the needs of offenders who are permanently or temporarily

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assigned to Tier I, Tier II, Protective Custody, Death Row, Special Management
Unit, Medical Infirmaries, etc.

K. Written procedure will be developed to provide counseling and case management

coverage during the extended absence of a counselor, and this should be kept in
the Care and Treatment Operational Manual.

L. Offenders who do not have access to the services or programs required to meet the

goals established in the case plan will be considered for transfer to a facility/site
that can provide those services/programs.

M. Counseling Services for Offenders in Administrative Segregation Units:

1. Offenders shall continue to receive the services of a Counselor. Offenders may

participate in such educational, vocational and/or rehabilitative programs as
can be provided within the confines of the Administrative Segregation unit,
consistent with the security needs of the unit.

2. Counselors should meet with offenders in Administrative Segregation at least

once per week. During this meeting the counselor will document the offender’s
behavior and notate any improvement or lack thereof. They will ask the
offender if there is any assistance they need regarding their programs. They
will ask the offender if they are having any suicidal thoughts.

3. The O.U.T Cognitive Behavioral Program is to be delivered as designed by the

developer and according to the Office of Reentry Services staff in Reentry &
Cognitive Behavioral Programs Unit requirements, to maximize the
effectiveness of the group. Facilitators must follow the established lesson plan
found in the program manual received during the facilitator training. The
O.U.T program will be delivered in three (3) phases:

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a. Phase One: Programming will be delivered in cell. Program progression

specified by program schedule. (Example: Week five an offender receives
Lesson 1 and Lesson 2);

b. Phase Two: Programming will be delivered in a combination of in cell and

therapeutic module setting; and

c. Phase Three: Programming will be delivered in security chairs every week.

Progression through the phases will comply with SOP 209.08,
Administrative Segregation - Tier II.

4. Offenders are required to complete the program once enrolled. Participation

and completion of Phase I in-cell programming components is mandatory, not
voluntary; and

5. Phase II and Phase III group attendance is also mandatory and not voluntary.

6. Program Delivery Standards: Offenders Under Transition (O.U.T):

a. Facilitators will follow the established curriculum detailed in the manual

received at initial training;

b. Facilitators shall conduct an initial interview with all offenders prior to

offender beginning self-study portion;

c. During the interview the facilitator will use motivational techniques to

enhance the offenders’ acceptance of the program. At this time, any
program related forms should be reviewed and completed;

d. Only trained facilitators shall participate in the delivery of O.U.T.; and

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e. Staff will utilize those materials designed for use in O.U.T, as determined

by the Office of Reentry Services staff and maintain adequate supplies to
deliver it.

V. Attachments: None.

VI. Record Retention of Forms Relevant to this Policy: None.