O.P.T.I.O.N.S.

 

Through the Opportunities for Prevention and Treatment Interventions for Offenders Needing Support (OPTIONS) program, the PPS provides addiction treatment services, including evaluation, education, and counseling, to inmates in intensive residential units, called therapeutic communities, and in moderate “outpatient” units. OPTIONS programming was expanded during FY2002 to include a 48-bed therapeutic community at the Cambria Community Center.

 

OPTIONS serves as the first step in the continuum of care from prison to the community. Sentenced inmates participating in this program begin family therapy while still incarcerated. Upon completion of the OPTIONS program, PPS inmates may be paroled early.

 

The OPTIONS Program continued its partnership with Temple University for the Inside/ Out program, in which OPTIONS participants are paired with Temple University students in a forcredit class. Inmates participating in this program complete all the same assignments as university students.