Mighty BrothersYouth Services

EdStar Wireless Addresses Juvenile Parole And/Or Probation

With Technology And Skilled Counseling

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Community Safety is a primary goal of both adult corrections and juvenile justice systems across the country. While adult corrections also has punishment of offenders as a goal, juvenile justice systems have a different goal; treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. To this end, the EdStar Wireless Corp has a broad array of methods and programs for addressing juvenile crime, taking into account the severity of the offense and the background of the offender. These include:

1. Primary Support Services (PSS)

2. Outreach And Tracking Services (OTS )

3. Intensive Outreach And Tracking Services (IOTS )

4. Therapeutic Outreach And Tracking

Services (TOTS)

Generally, EdStar provides for escalating responses to offenses and supervision and rehabilitation goals and requirements. And, because juveniles are very often serviced by multiple entities such as social service agencies, schools, and other specialized treatment agencies along with the referring juvenile justice agency, EdStar has developed technology that can seamlessly link all agencies and schools together relative to the youth offender's rehabilitative plan.

EdStar's best practices for the juvenile justice system in the United States, including diversion, community supervision, treatment, assistive re-entry and intensive therapeutic short messaging therapy (TSMS), provide a dynamic solution based alternative to conventional rehabilitative efforts.

Our TSMS is a distinct form of communication and is highly valued by a subset of society and there are therefore, clear imperatives to utilize as an e-therapy as a stand alone service or combined with other outreach and tracking services provided by EdStar.

Therapeutic texting meet clients' expectations and needs. The current review shows that this is not only theoretically possible but actually a developing professional reality.” (Barak et al., 2008, p 148). There is a growing literature base demonstrating the advantages and efficacy of e-therapies. The fact that many young people have more than one cell phone and frequently more than one SIM card (i.e. multiple accounts and numbers) gives rise to the conclusion that cell phones are a technology that is highly accessible for young people. EdStar expands on this by providing all clients with unlimited usage cell phones.

In an effort to establish our professional identity as a viable pub community safety program, EdStar must make significant and consistent contributions to justice, crime prevention and public safety. Our results will not only be valued by referring agencies but also by the the general public. As a result of our research and age group appropriate trial, we can assure probation and parole's rightful place in the spectrum of criminal justice services that are publicly funded.

EdStar's unique merger between intensive outreach and tracking and advanced technology is imperative for usage in this new found world of collaborative partnerships between parole/probation agencies, law enforcement, and social service agencies. Our programs not only provide the most extensive client contact system available anywhere, but moreover, we can substantially minimize episodes of poor judgement and increase positive behavior thereby improving community safety.

It is important to note that even our least restrictive and least invasive service provides hourly contact with clients and tracks their movements.

While rehabilitation and successful re-entry into society are the primary goals of community based corrections, the underlying process to facilitate achievement is very often under a great deal of public scrutiny. Failed services rendered by probation and parole are very often a matter of serious consequence; they interact with matters of life, death, harm and cost to society.

Recidivism, in a criminal justice context, can be defined as the reversion of an individual to criminal behavior after he or she has been convicted of a prior offense, sentenced, and (presumably) corrected. It results from the concatenation of failures: failure of the individual to live up to society’expectations – or failure of society to provide for the individual; a consequent failure of the individual to stay out of trouble; failure of the individual, as an offender, to escape arrest and conviction; failure of the individual as an inmate of a correctional institution to take advantage of correctional programs – or failure of the institution to provide programs that rehabilitate; and additional failures by the individual in continuing in a criminal career after release.

Estar's community supervision services were designed to afford offenders with the very best possible opportunity to become successfully rehabilitated and attain the ability to re- enter society without further involvement in unlawful activity. Edstar employs several evidence based treatment strategies which include but are not limited to:

1. 10 daily contacts (average) with clients

2. 24 hour non-invasive client monitoring

3. Daily hourly interactive contact with clients during vulnerable time periods

4. Daily intensive TSMS therapy for highly at risk clients during vulnerable time periods

5. Incentive based therapy

6. Automated messaging relative to client's progress to individuals or agencies involved in the client's treatment plan

7. 24 hour emergency contact available for all clients

One of the most commonly cited reasons for traditional probation's failure is heavy caseloads, which prevent probation officers from providing anything more than superficial instructions and infrequent contacts. This fundamental problem with traditional probation fueled the concept of intensive supervision programs (ISPs). ISPs differ from traditional probation in that they are characterized by higher levels of contact with probation officers or caseworkers, smaller caseloads, and strict conditions of compliance.

EdStar can achieve many of the same objectives as traditional ISP but with increased client contact and greater consolidation of services. Inasmuch as our services are based on daily contact, clients are better positioned to meet the demands of their specific treatment goals.

Research on adult ISPs (Petersilia and Turner, 1993; Jolin and Stipack, 1991; Latessa, 1993; Byrne and Kelly 1989) finds that when treatment services are combined with increased supervision, rearrests are reduced. EdStar clearly provides the most extensive client supervision available to juvenile justice agencies in the United States.

Most states spend the bulk of their juvenile justice dollars on the expensive and very often ineffective incarceration of a very small percentage of the total number of system-involved youth - even though a large body of research suggests that less costly, community-based alternatives to incarceration are more effective for the majority of youth. The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) examines how adjustments to the fiscal architecture of juvenile justice systems can help ensure that state spending nurtures the development of locally operated programs that will effectively treat more youth close to home.

In addition to periodic home visits by EdStar staff members, EdStar's TSMS lets clients see a counselor from the comfort of their own home or wherever a cellular phone signal is available. The fact is that clients meeting with their therapist or counselor utilizing EdStar's TSMS is convenient and always saves time, energy and money thereby lowering the typical cost associated with any type of counseling service.

Additionally, using the TSMS means we can make available a large pool of expert licensed clinicians and skilled counselors from various locations throughout the US affording clients the availability of highly qualified clinicians at the fraction of the cost of typical community based programs. We do this while providing increased client contact and incentive based therapy combined with client intensive monitoring.

Depending on the service selected, referring agencies can expect to dramatically reduce the usual cost of rehabilitation while increasing community safety as it relates to their offenders. This will result in their clients gaining increased opportunities to find success.

"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

Mark 16:15