Adult Services : Outcomes

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CSI's Connecticut Project Green and Alternative to Incarceration (AIC) clients performed a total of 44,652 hours of community service this past year exceeding their yearly goals. Using the CT minimum wage of $7.65/hour, this equates to $341,588 worth of labor that was provided to the citizens of Connecticut during FY2007 by our clients.

In FY2007, CSI serviced 3252 clients, which was an increase from FY2006 by 9.6%

Our successful discharge rate for Residential clients was 72%
Our successful discharge rate for ISP clients was 80% (up from 74% from FY2006)
Combined for all of adult services, the success rate was 77%, up from 73% in FY2006

CSI Adult Residential clients saved the taxpayers $731,580 by making direct payment towards their own room and board during FY2007.

CSI clients paid $32,217 to the Connecticut Victim Compensation Board during FY2007.

Steady On Your Feet

When you trip and fall, you often need a hand to help you stand again. Enrique Gonzalez needed a firm grip to steady him and thanks to an alert staff at Community Solutions, Incorporated's (CSI) New Jersey DRC program, Enrique got just that.

Enrique Gonzalez entered the program bitter, confused and afraid; believing that the he would be judged based on his past mistakes and treated harshly. He was depressed and reluctant to seek any help. Familiar with the signs, CSI staff approached Mr. Gonzalez providing moral and emotional support, in addition to professional services.

Realizing the CSI staff was behind him, his fear slowly turned the corner to self-confidence and determination to change his situation and better his life.

Enrique has since completed the DRC's Cognitive Self Change group and participated in groups such as Anger Management and Life Skills, as well as Employment Readiness. Mr. Gonzales honed his interviewing skills and his resume while CSI's Teacher at the DRC prepared Mr. Gonzalez to take his college placement test. Enriquez is now in school full-time at Hudson County Community College and employed there part-time.

CSI's DRC is a "safe haven" for him, with its open door policy and willingness to go that extra mile even for former clients. Mr. Gonzalez has been successfully discharged but continues to use DRC services, including tutoring. Mr. Gonzalez points out, "This place even helps me with my homework on the weekend."

Mr. Gonzalez has taken great strides in a short time and serves as a reminder to all of us who do this job daily, that through a community of concerned people, change is possible.

Inmates Among Us

Deborah Yanzo is serving out her sentence at a halfway house in Hartford and is due for release in October. Yanzo works as a manager of a McDonald's, and has lined up an apartment for when she's released. The halfway house program, she says, has saved her.

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