Plans and Services Programs
Kent County OCC is funding nineteen programs which accept referrals from Circuit Court Probation and Pretrial Services during FY 2008. These programs provide a wide range of treatment services which include community service supervision, substance abuse treatment, and anger management classes.
Funded programs for FY 2008 include:
Community Service
Agency and Program Name |
Contact |
Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
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Court Services Community Service |
Bruce Nyenhuis |
180 Ottawa NW |
The Community Service program provides screening, assessment,
placement and monitoring of sentenced male and female felony offenders
sentenced to perform a specified number of work hours with non-profit
organizations throughout the county. |
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Court Services Work Crew |
Bruce Nyenhuis |
180 Ottawa NW |
| The Work Crew program provides screening, assessment, placement and monitoring of sentenced male and female felony offenders who are ordered by the 17th Circuit Court to complete a specific number of work crew hours. The work is labor intensive and performed in a group setting under close supervision and therefore considered a more serious sentence than community service. | ||
Education
Agency and Program Name |
Contact |
Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative Directions |
Michelle Macdonald |
1706 S. Division Ave. SE |
Provides Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) to sentenced
male felony offenders enrolled in the Alternative Directions Probation
Residential Program to aid them in changing their thinking and decision
making processes and assist them in developing appropriate life choices
to avoid future criminal activity. |
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GRCC – The Learning Corner @ Wealthy |
Charles Burt |
1154 Wealthy SE |
| This program provides offenders GED preparation and testing services to male and female offenders who lack a high school diploma with the services provided at no cost to enrolled offenders. | ||
Intensive Supervision
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Pine Rest Day Reporting Program |
RaVonne Foster | 2303 Kalamazoo SE |
| Sentenced male and female felony offenders who are currently serving a probation sentence and require a more intensive level of supervision can be referred to the Day Reporting Program. In addition, the offender may receive employment skills training and substance abuse treatment services. | ||
| Alternative Directions Day Reporting Program |
Michelle Macdonald | 1706 S. Division Ave. SE |
| Sentenced male and female felony offenders who are currently serving a probation sentence and require a more intensive level of supervision can be referred to the Day Reporting Program. Additionally, offenders may receive employment skills training, assistance finding employment, and CBT-based treatment. | ||
Mental Health
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Family Outreach Center Anger Management Program |
Edith McCreary | 1939 S. Division Avenue |
| The Anger Management Program provides a CBT-based group counseling to pretrial and sentenced male and female offenders with anger management problems. The program helps the offender identify anger management issues and learn anger management skills and alternatives to anger. | ||
| Prodigal Human Services Sex Offender Treatment |
Mike Rinker | 40 Jefferson SE |
| This 52 week psycho-educational treatment program is open to sentenced male felony offenders with convictions for non-violent sex offenses. The program curriculum covers topics such as stopping new offenses, relapse prevention, and learning new responses to certain situations. | ||
Pretrial Services
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Court Services Regular Pretrial Supervision |
Tim Bouwhuis | 180 Ottawa NW |
| Regular Pretrial Supervision provides assessment, referral and monitoring services, including drug testing, for male and female pretrial offenders who are released from the Kent County Correctional Facility on a conditional bond. Offenders may be referred for substance abuse or mental health assessment and treatment if needed. | ||
| Court Services Maximum Pretrial Supervision |
Tim Bouwhuis | 180 Ottawa NW |
| Maximum Pretrial Supervision provides the same type of services that the Regular Pretrial Supervision Program does save for the type of supervision that is provided. Pretrial offenders under maximum pretrial supervision are required to wear an electronic tether which provides for 24 hour monitoring of these offenders along with meeting with their case worker several times a week in either telephone or face-to-face meetings. | ||
Substance Abuse
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Arbor Circle AOS |
Rog Weigers | 1331 Lake Drive SE |
| AOS provides outpatient substance abuse treatment and interventions in a group setting to sentenced male and female felony offenders. | ||
| Pine Rest Substance Abuse Treatment Program |
Larry VanderPlaats | 2303 Kalamazoo SE |
| This program provides assessment and Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) to address both the criminality and the substance abuse dependency of the sentenced male and female felony offender. Services include individual, group, and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment. | ||
| Pine Rest Men’s NonCore SA Treatment Services |
Carolyn Avery | 243 - 68th Street SE |
| This program provides funding for substance abuse treatment services for offenders that are enrolled in the Pine Rest Men’s Residential Treatment Program. | ||
| Pine Rest Women’s NonCore SA Treatment Services |
Carolyn Avery | 243 - 68th Street SE |
| This program provides noncore treatment services to women enrolled in the Women’s Residential Program through Pine Rest. Programming is also available through this program which allows children to stay with their mothers at Pine Rest while the women are enrolled in the residential program. | ||
Case Management
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Court Services COMPAS |
Tim Bouwhuis | 180 Ottawa NW |
| Risk/Needs assessments are performed on pretrial and sentenced male and female felony offenders to assist probation officers and OCC funded agencies in making referral and treatment decisions. | ||
| Network 180 Substance Abuse Level of Care Screenings |
Ross Buitendorp | 728 Fuller Avenue NE |
| Network 180 staff will be providing a level of care screening for referred male and female sentenced felony offenders sentenced to probation with identified and/or suspected abuse disorders. The screenings will assist the probation officers in determining the level of substance abuse treatment the offender should receive. | ||
Drunk Driving/Jail Reduction Program
| Agency and Program Name | Contact | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Pine Rest OUIL III CBT |
RaVonne Foster | 2303 Kalamazoo SE |
| This program provides assessment, case management and inpatient and outpatient services, for eligible OUIL III offenders who are targeted by the state as “prison bound”. | ||
| Kent County Sheriff’s Department Jail-Based Assessment |
Andrew Verheek | 180 Ottawa NW |
| Provides jail bed space at the Kent County Correctional Facility for eligible OUIL III offenders while an assessment is completed. | ||
| 61st District Court Sobriety Court |
Joe Berlin | 180 Ottawa NW |
| The Drug Court Program provides intensive case management, alcohol testing, supervised treatment programming, and other judicial incentives to assist eligible OUIL III offenders overcome their addictions to alcohol. | ||
