Fields Services

Specialized supervision is provided for clients who have completed the Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facilities (operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutional Division) and been released to community supervision. These caseloads offer a type of step-down, phase supervision to transition clients from residential treatment into traditional case management. Supervision of the SAFPF client requires continual monitoring for signs of relapse exhibited by drug/alcohol clients. Supervision officers coordinate relapse prevention services with the clients’ treatment providers. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

This program provides specialized supervision for clients whom are in need of intensive treatment services. CSOs are trained in assisting clients in reducing barriers to services including but not limited to addressing low motivation, transportation, problem solving deficits and application of new skills in the community. Responses to technical violations have immediate consequences, as determined by the staff and courts. The length of stay will range from three months to twenty-four months depending on the need of the client. Appropriate referrals would pose significant problems to standard caseloads. Clients will be placed with a CSO that is trained specifically for the type of issues the client presents. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

This program provides specialized supervision for clients whom are in need of intensive treatment services. CSOs are trained in assisting clients in reducing barriers to services including but not limited to addressing low motivation, transportation, problem solving deficits and application of new skills in the community. Responses to technical violations have immediate consequences, as determined by the staff and courts. The length of stay will range from three months to twenty-four months depending on the need of the client. Appropriate referrals would pose significant problems to standard caseloads. Clients will be placed with a CSO that is trained specifically for the type of issues the client presents. 

Eligibility Criteria:

Specialized supervision is provided for clients who have completed the Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facilities (operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutional Division) and been released to community supervision. These caseloads offer a type of step-down, phase supervision to transition clients from residential treatment into traditional case management. Supervision of the SAFPF client requires continual monitoring for signs of relapse exhibited by drug/alcohol clients. Supervision officers coordinate relapse prevention services with the clients’ treatment providers. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

These caseloads are designed to provide close, specialized supervision and support to clients with significant mental health issues. These clients will be on wraparound caseloads with MHMRA involvement. Clients will receive intensive case management services through the HCCSCD and MHMRA.

Eligibility Criteria:

Mental Health Regular Specialized Caseloads serve a three-fold purpose: 1) as a gradual transition for those that have achieved a level of mental stability and can now be transitioned from the Mental Health Initiative caseload; (2) as a program to supervise those clients that have a mental health diagnosis that is not within the required criteria for the Mental Health Initiative caseload, but who would have trouble maintaining compliance with region supervision; and. (3) as a program for supervision of the developmentally disabled client. The caseloads are designed to provide close supervision of clients who have special needs due to mental illness. Individualized supervision plans are developed, and community resources are utilized to provide treatment, education and vocational training/job placement. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

The purpose of this program is to help those clients who are identified through the assessment process as having limited ties to the community connect with local organizations to increase the engagement and self-sufficiency of the clients. Clients will benefit from this program by learning effective communication, employment, and educational skills that will allow them to be successful upon completion. The length of the program varies based on the needs and progress of the client. 

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The Sex Offender Unit provides supervision of sex offenders in accordance with legislative mandates 

as well as the requirements established by the courts. This supervision includes monitoring sex offender registration, arranging for conduction of DNA blood draws, monitoring child safety zones and compliance with these zones, arranging for polygraph examination and verifying attendance in sex offender treatment programs. The unit includes specialized caseloads for the mentally impaired sex offender as a collaborative effort with the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County (MHMRA). An active Sex Offender Interagency Council is an outgrowth of this program and provides an opportunity for representatives from various community agencies to interface and share information about the sex offender population. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

These caseloads provide specialized supervision to perpetrators of domestic violence and to survivors of domestic violence who have committed an offense where circumstances were determined by having been a victim in an abusive relationship. Supervision officers work in collaboration with community agencies, law enforcement and the public to provide outreach to family violence issues. Clients are supervised according to the specific treatment needs and compliance requirements related to their offenses. The length of stay for this program can vary but generally ranges from three to twelve months. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

This caseload is designed to provide intensive supervision to the highest risk clients who have a current DWI offense. Clients on this caseload will be monitored for compliance of any external alcohol/drug monitoring equipment ordered. In addition, officers in this unit are specially trained in supervising hardcore drunk drivers. 

Eligibility Criteria: 

This program is designed to coordinate the provision of supervision of clients who are court-ordered to participate in electronic monitoring. If the client is participating in a specialized caseload, that officer monitors the client. Supervising officers follow the conditions of supervision ordered by the Court and determine a daily schedule that is strictly enforced. This type of monitoring affords the officer the ability to follow the Court’s order to ensure the client is where he is supposed to be, at the time he is supposed to be there. The program also allows a court to see all passive activities (entries and exits) for a client on a daily basis, if needed. Violations or deviations to the schedule assigned by the Court are reported to the Court as they occur.