Abstract
ABSTRACT In October 2006, the California Men's Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo, faced with staff recruitment and retention difficulties, took an innovative step to utilize long-term sentenced inmates as peer mentors and primary counselors to lead their prison-based therapeutic community (TC) program. The program was designed, developed, and implemented through the collaborative efforts of CMC's Our House program, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training and Application (CCARTA), and the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE). The program is designed to be a peer mentor-driven 24-hour TC built to uphold the fundamental TC principles that have been lost in many treatment programs. UCSD CCARTA was instrumental in training the long-term residents who served as peer mentors in substance abuse treatment principles and strategies, equivalent to the training received by state-fu...
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