News - 2008
Lieutenant Governor Joins 20th Anniversary Celebration of KEY Program
West Caldwell, NJ, Jul 24, 2008 - The KEY Program, CEC's in-prison therapeutic community at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington Delaware, celebrated its 20th Anniversary of preparing offenders for successful community reentry. The three day celebration brought state officials together with Community Education Centers' and Delaware Department of Corrections' staff and community leaders to celebrate this important treatment program.
"For the last twenty years, the KEY program has served as a model therapeutic community, both in America and the international treatment community. I would like to thank all our staff who make this program so valuable and congratulate all the program graduates over the years who are now leading successful and productive lives," said Jim Elder, State Director/Delaware at Community Education Centers.
Keynote speakers on first day of the celebration were John Carney, Delaware Lieutenant Governor, Tom Carroll, Deputy Commissioner Delaware Department of Corrections, and Dwight Holden, Chairman of the Parole Board. Day two keynote speakers included Jack Markell, Delaware State Treasurer, Charles Madden, Director of Wilmington HOPE Commission, Steve Martin, University of Delaware, and Pastor Derrick Johnson. Day three included KEY program alumni who returned to share their success stories with the current program participants.
The KEY is the first component of Delaware's substance abuse treatment regimen for offenders with a history of substance abuse. KEY is a prison-based therapeutic community for men and women - a total treatment environment that is discipline-based, intense and isolated from the rest of the prison population. Today, the KEY program can accommodate approximately 420 participants a year throughout the prison system.
The KEY program uses therapeutic-based programming to treat and modify the behaviors of substance abusers in prison and in a work-release center. In both the prison and the work release center, program participants live in a therapeutic community where they learn to help themselves and other residents in order to change their behavior and to reduce their drug abuse. Inmates can volunteer for the program if they meet the eligibility criteria and are within 18 months of their release date.
CEC manages all KEY-CREST program sites for the Delaware Department of Corrections.
KEY Programs
- KEY North at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution (Gander Hill) in Wilmington
- KEY South at the Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown
- KEY Baylor or The Village
Crest Programs
- Central Violation of Probation Center near Smyrna
- Morris Community Corrections Center in Dover
- Plummer Community Corrections Center in Wilmington
- Sussex Community Corrections Center-Work Release Unit in Georgetown
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