Community Orientation and Re-entry Program - CORP

CORP delivers programming on the unit one full day each week.  Group focus is on recovery, communication and criminal thinking, all from the consumers perspective.  

Double Trouble is of course a 12 step recovery program for the dually diagnosed.  

Communication Skills focuses on developing patient's ability to communicate with one another and with mental health providers.  Specific attention is given to presentation skills during interviews with providers.

Consumers With Convictions targets criminal thinking patterns.  It is the consumer complement to "Thinking for a Change", the NIJ cognitive behavioral program targeting such thinking, which is delivered in the program by the DOCS Counselor.

In addition, HALI provides bridger services for the program.  Bridgers work individually with our patients for six months, two months before release and four months after.  They provide peer social support during the transition back to the community.  As a limited resource, patients who are maxing out and who won't have a Parole Officer, and those of higher risk are targeted.

Outreach Services

• Anger Management groups at Riverhead Jail twice weekly

• Self Help and Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR) groups at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (P.P.C.) weekly

• Homeless outreach in Suffolk County

• Members of HALI's Forensics Department participate in the Suffolk County Coalition of Mental Health Services 
  Providers Forensic Workgroup and the Suffolk County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

• Provide Anger Management and Criminal Justice Advocacy for HALI participants.