CCF Programs and Services: Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Counseling
AA - The Top of the Hill Group meets every Wednesday
night; outside members attend as well as CCF prisoners.
Individual Counseling – Individual counseling
is provided by a LCPC and is available on request and through referral
by Classification. The counselor meets with prisoners 20 hours
per week.
Group Counseling – Charleston Correctional
Facility offers Free Your Mind©, a “comprehensive educational
and treatment program which promotes cognitive skills development
and encourages offenders to take a practical and realistic look
at the progression of troubles in their lives and the irrational
choices they have made. Offenders are given the choice and responsibility
to work toward personal change by focusing on the truth about their
lives and their personal responsibility to change their attitudes
and actions”.
Mental Health Counseling
Mental health counseling is provided via tele-conferencing 8
hours per month by a contracted clinical psychologist who works
with prisoners on a 1:1 basis. Individual treatment is provided
for a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, and other
psychological disorders.Crisis intervention, assessment and evaluation
are available, as is counseling in dealing with institutional adjustment
and/or personal problems.
Services provided include a 10-week anger management program based
on Cage Your Rage, which is an anger management program developed
at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. This program helps offenders
recognize their angry feelings, learn where they came from, and
deal with them in more responsible and less destructive ways. The
offenders learn how to take more control over their lives by controlling
these feelings.
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