ODRC - Crosswaeh Community Based Correctional Facility (Female)

ODRC - Crosswaeh Community Based Correctional Facility (Female) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 419-447-1444

The inmates housed at Crosswaeh CC-Female located at 3091 S State Rte 100 in Tiffin, OH are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

Residential Chemical Dependency Treatment -We offer a three-phase program for treatment of Substance Use Disorders, which includes the following:

Phase 1: Treatment Readiness: A four-hour program (two days for two hours) designed to prepare the clients for the program by acknowledging resistance and introducing them to the concepts of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention.

Phase 2: Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program: A 6-week long program, utilizing the University of Cincinnati curriculum “Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Substance Abuse”. The program covers 36 lessons presented in six modules, “Motivational Engagement, Emotion Regulation, Social Skills, Problem Solving, and Relapse Prevention. Group is facilitated three days per week for three hours each day. In addition, each participant is required to have a conjoint session with a supportive family member or friend, as well as individual counseling sessions with their primary clinician.

Phase 3: Aftercare Program: Weekly group sessions based on “Responding to a Roadblock” Lesson from the University of Cincinnati curriculum, and are designed to help the client’s practice the skills they learned dealing with current issues. The number of sessions required is based upon the Substance Use sub-score of the ORAS tool used by ODRC. In addition to on-going individual counseling, an optional conjoint session is offered for client’s to share their Relapse Prevention plan with their support people.

Orientation -Orientation is a 4 session curriculum developed, in part, by the University of Cincinnati. The group provides offenders with initial exposure to cognitive behavioral treatment tools including the behavior chain and the decisional balance method. 2 social skills are also taught and practiced.

Thinking for a Change (T4C) -Is an integrated approach to changing offender behavior, developed by Barry Glick, Jack Bush, and Juliana Taymans in cooperation with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) that uses a combination of approaches to increase an offender’s awareness of themselves and others. It integrates cognitive restructuring, social skills, and problem-solving. The program begins by teaching offenders an introspective process for examining their ways of thinking and their feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. The process is reinforced throughout the program. Social-skills training is provided as an alternative to antisocial behaviors. The program culminates by integrating the skills offenders have learned into steps for problem-solving. Problem-solving becomes the central approach offenders learn that enables them to work through difficult situations without engaging in criminal behavior.

Thinking Errors -Thinking Errors assists clients in developing the means with which to identify specific thinking patterns that lead to criminal behavior as well as strategies to restructure these patterns. Each session covers one of the primary criminal thinking styles (entitlement, justification, power orientation, cold-heartedness, criminal rationalization, and personal irresponsibility) utilizing lecture and cognitive restructuring exercises.