Women's Reentry Assessment Programming, and Services
A Randomized Control Trial of Gender-Responsive Probation Supervision
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Principal Investigator (PI) / Project Lead: |
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Funding Organization: |
Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Office of Justice Programs |
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Award Number: |
2017-CZ-BX-0002 |
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Project Period: |
10/1/2018 – 8/31/2021 |
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Total Funding: |
$93,000 |
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Project Status: |
Ended |
Project Description:
Gender-responsive approaches start with women in mind and address womens' gendered pathways into the system, their needs, strengths, and lived experiences. The Multnomah County Department of Community Justice (DCJ) Women and Family Services Unit (WFSU) has fully embraced and implemented gender-responsive approaches when working with women on their caseloads. For the purposes of this grant, the unit created a more enhanced wraparound, gender- responsive, and trauma-informed support model of supervision called Women’s Reentry Assessment, Programming, and Services (WRAPS). The overarching goal of the WRAPS model was to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for women released from, or at risk of, jail through the implementation of a comprehensive, data-driven, and trauma-informed continuum of care designed to address their individual criminogenic needs. A major component of the WRAPS model was the utilization and support of Community Health Specialists (CHSs) paired with the two WRAPS probation officers assigned to the intervention. CHSs worked alongside probation officers (POs) to provide additional support to women as they navigated community supervision. The purpose of the current study was to utilize a randomized control trial outcome evaluation design to examine the effectiveness of the WRAPS model in comparison to ‘gender-responsive supervision as usual.