West Caldwell, NJ, Jan 24 -

Four Community Education Centers, Inc. (CEC) residential reentry facilities scored 100% on all mandatory and non-mandatory standards and received official reaccreditation at the American Correctional Association (ACA) winter conference in Tampa, Florida on January 23. The facilities—Delaney Hall, Logan Hall, Alcohol Drug Addiction Parole Probation Treatment (ADAPPT), and Hoffman/Coleman Hall were accredited under the ACA Adult Community Residential Services (ACRS) standards. CEC operates seventeen community-based reentry programs with ACRS accreditation all of which have scored 100% on all mandatory and non-mandatory standards, a record that is unprecedented in the industry. 

“It was an honor to accept these reaccreditations on behalf of all the staff at each facility. Their hard work and dedication are evident by the perfect scores each facility recieved,”said Tina Price, Accreditation Manager at CEC.

About the Facilities:

Delaney Hall
Delaney Hall is CEC’s 1200-bed residential reentry center in Newark, New Jersey. The facility opened in May 2000 and its population consists of Essex and Union County, New Jersey offenders and New Jersey State Parole Board (NJSPB) technical violators. The reentry treatment program provides a true continuum of care to successfully integrate former inmates back into their home communities.

Delaney Hall provides substance abuse treatment, alumni services, life skills training, conflict resolution and anger management treatment, individual, group, and family counseling, educational remediation, changes in criminal thinking, aftercare counseling, and risk and psychological assessments. Delaney Hall also provides gender-specific treatment services through its women’s program. This program addresses the unique needs of female offenders, including parenting issues and domestic abuse, as well as reasons for substance abuse.

Coleman/Hoffman Hall
These two facilities are located on the same site— Hoffman Hall, a 400-bed residential reentry center, serves the Philadelphia Prison System and Coleman Hall, a 300-bed  bed residential reentry center, serves the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, and the Bucks County Department of Corrections.

The Joseph E. Coleman Education and Training Center, has been operational since November 2001 and provides residential treatment services for up to 300 males. Coleman Hall’s residential programs focus on substance abuse treatment, education, life skills, employment, community reintegration, and a mental health program that are offered at the facility.

Hoffman Hall opened in July 2008 and addresses the reentry needs of each individual resident and utilizes CEC’s continuum of care model that is proven to reduce recidivism.  The treatment component consists of carefully selected reentry services including individual and group counseling; cognitive-behavioral training; substance abuse treatment; educational services and life skills training. All of the components are consistent with current scientific and professional literature relevant to correctional populations. The assessment process at Hoffman Hall uses standardized and actuarially based instruments to gather information to determine an resident’s current risk factors for public safety concerns and recidivism.

Logan Hall
Logan Hall is CEC’s 600-bed residential reentry center in Newark, New Jersey. The facility provides comprehensive residential reentry services to offenders referred from Union County, New Jersey, the New Jersey State Parole Board (NJSPB) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and reflects CEC’s unique ability to provide rehabilitative and educational services to diverse populations in the same facility.  The ACA auditors commented positively on the professionalism and team work of Logan Hall staff and the cleanliness of the facility.

ADAPPT
Open since 1991, ADAPPT has a capacity to serve 178 male and female residents referred from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. ADAPPT has inpatient and outpatient programs, and an intensive drug and alcohol treatment program. The facility also offers life skills training, work release, and community service experience. ADAPPT also has a day reporting program in Bucks County and a pre-release program in Chester County.