News - 2009
Casper Re-Entry Center Expands Services with Bureau of Indian Affairs Treatment Program
West Caldwell, NJ, Jan 15 - The Casper Re-Entry Center (CRC), CEC's 400-bed residential reentry center in Casper, Wyoming, added a new and much needed residential treatment program for American Indians referred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). CRC began receiving BIA offenders in July and can accommodate up to 28 residents in the culturally specific reentry program. The intensive treatment services are used as an alternative sentencing option to misdemeanant offenders with substance abuse disorders with a documented need for addiction treatment.
"The treatment program at CRC represents a focused effort on providing effective and culturally sensitive treatment services to American Indians, who have the highest prevalence of substance abuse and dependence among the racial and ethnic groups in the United States," said Dr. Robert Mackey.
The treatment program provides reentry services for several western tribes including the Shoshoni and Arapahoe tribes from Wyoming, the Assiniboine, Crow, and Blackfeet tribes from Montana, the Benewah tribe from Idaho, and the Washoe, Paiute, and Reno-Sparks tribes from Nevada.
The CRC treatment program emphasizes the importance of understanding, respecting, and incorporating the values and nature of American Indian culture in serving members of this community. American Indian staff have been recruited and staff have been provided with specialized cultural training. American Indian program materials have been provided for residents.
The program has been visited by representatives from the Lummi Tribe from Washington State who thought the tour was excellent and were very impressed with the facility, staff, and services offered. Tribal members requested that CEC send staff to Washington State to conduct a presentation.
With the addition of this new program, CRC now provides residential reentry, therapeutic community, and day-reporting services for the following agencies, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wyoming Department of Corrections, Wyoming Department of Family Services, Natrona County, and the Cities of Casper and Evansville.
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