Profile: Intervention Community Corrections Services

OUR MISSION

The mission of Intervention Community Corrections Services is to provide the highest level of quality services to offenders, while managing their risk to the community.  This is accomplished by employing a highly qualified staff of correctional professionals who lead a residential and non-residential facility that works in collaboration with the criminal justice system and the community, thereby enhancing offender accountability and community safety.

Intervention Community Corrections Services, (ICCS) is a private, non-profit community corrections agency that provides a wide variety of services to the criminal justice system.  Services include residential/non-residential offender management, substance abuse monitoring, and educational/vocational assistance.  Primary programming is within the residential community corrections program located at 1651 Kendall St. Lakewood, Colorado.  Contracted services began December 1, 2002.

The goal of ICCS is to provide a cost-effective alternative to offender incarceration, in a safe environment, with the aim of reducing criminal behavior through provision of supervision and services in the community. To accomplish this, ICCS strives to enable offenders to successfully reintegrate into the community through appropriate treatment interventions, with constant focus on maintaining community safety.  ICCS is dedicated to community safety and client success through a well-trained and highly qualified staff.  It is our belief that sound programming of clients better enables them to successfully reintegrate into society.  Clients must be referred to appropriate treatment with constant monitoring of their progress in order for them to succeed and for the community to remain safe.  Major programmatic emphases for clients are to improve problem areas, which lead to their involvement in the criminal justice system.  ICCS utilizes a wide variety of qualified community treatment providers to assist clients with their individual needs.  Each client is assigned a residential case manager who develops a customized individual service plan, designed to provide the client with maximum benefit of appropriate community resources.

ICCS is committed to providing the finest community corrections services available in the State of Colorado.  The quality of the ICCS program is evidenced through maintaining compliance with all established standards of the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ). Program staff works closely with the Jefferson County Community Corrections Board to insure all issues are resolved efficiently.

ICCS has a residential capacity of 154 offenders.  Several populations are served in the program; however, the primary populations are diversion and transition offenders.  A diversion resident is a person placed in the program as a condition of his/her probation or as a direct sentence from the Court until he/she completes the program, thus satisfying the conditions of the sentence.  Transition residents are referred by the Department of Corrections (DOC) and are placed at ICCS prior to their sentence discharge, release to parole, or release to the Intensive Supervision Program (electronic monitoring), under the supervision of the parole department. ICCS staff's proactive strength-based supervision and operational structure assists our clients in developing a law-abiding lifestyle.  One goal of ICCS is to provide both populations with the resources to succeed in the community without committing further offenses.  Diversion clients receive guidance and supervision, which include developing positive support systems in the community, pro-social activities and environments and the utilization of family and community resources.   Transition clients, who fall under the Department of Corrections Code of Penal Discipline, face additional challenges.  In addition to the aforementioned, the staff at ICCS place additional focus on assisting the "inmate" client toward reintegration in the community prior to release.  A DOC liaison officer assists with the supervision of transition residents.