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NC TASC
Bridging Systems
for Effective Offender
Care Management
North Carolina TASC
What is TASC?
While the justice system is concerned
about public safety, the treatment
community is concerned about changing
behavior & reducing personal suffering
associated with substance abuse &
mental illness.
Treatment Accountability for Safer
Communities (TASC) is a program that
connects the justice system & treatment
system to improve mental health &
reduce drug use & crime in all 100 North
Carolina counties.
North Carolina TASC
What TASC Does
•
Screening & Assessment for Treatment &
Recovery Support Needs, including
alcohol & other drug use; type of justice
system involvement; medical, family,
social, education, employment &
treatment histories
•
Matching Clients with the Correct Type of
Care, Support Services & Providers
•
Care Management that coordinates
Service Needs & Criminal Justice
Requirements by planning, linking,
advocating, monitoring, reporting &
ongoing assessment of progress
North Carolina TASC
TASC Eligibility
•
Involved in the Criminal Justice
System or released from the Dept
of Correction after completing a
prison treatment program
•
Agrees to participate
•
Evidence of a history or potential
substance abuse &/or mental
health problem, including drugrelated charges
North Carolina TASC
FY09-10 TASC Statistics
• TASC Served: 17,041
Admissions
• 79% Male
20000
• 53% Non-White
15000
• 59% less than 31yo
– 24% 16-21yo
10000
• 53% No HS Diploma
• 42% Unemployed
North Carolina TASC
0
01-02
02-03
03-04
04-05
05-06
06-07
07-08
08-09
09-10
• 88% Not Married
5000
TASC Facts
• 43% Abuse & 42%
Dependence Diagnosis
• 83% Intermediate
Punishment or
Community at Risk for
Revocation Offenders
• 51% Felony Offenders
• 50% Drug Offenses
• 6 Month Average Length
of Stay
• 53% Successfully
Completed in FY09-10
North Carolina TASC
• $1.50 per client per day or
$547 per year (2% of the $27,000
average cost of incarcerating a person
in a prison in NC for a year)
• 2000 Recidivism Report to
the General Assembly*
• 86% had at least 1
previous arrest (mean # 2.6)
• 61% were NOT rearrested within 2 years
of discharge
*NC Sentencing & Policy Advisory Commission