The page county jail reentry project will reduce recidivism and improve behavioral health and reentry outcomes among individuals who are incarcerated in page county jail

The Page County Jail Reentry Project is a $600,000 federal grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812). The project aims to reduce recidivism and improve behavioral health and reentry outcomes for up to 90 adults incarcerated in Page County Jail over three years. Specifically, the grant will provide reentry and recovery services, including case management, substance use and mental health treatment, peer support, and assistance with employment, housing, and benefits. The project is being implemented by the non-profit organization Strength In Peers Inc., which has expertise in delivering evidence-based peer recovery support programs. Evaluation activities will be conducted to inform quality improvement and assess the project's impact on participants' criminogenic risk, substance use, and mental health.

The project will serve page county in northwestern virginia. Page county is rural, is economically distressed, and has few behavioral health and social services. The county also has high rates of substance use and drug-related crime. The project will provide reentry and recovery services to adults incarcerated in page county jail who have moderate or high criminogenic risk and substance use challenges or CO-occurring substance use and mental health challenges. The project is expected to serve 90 individuals over three years. Participants are expected to achieve two or more of their case plan objectives, which will reduce their criminogenic risk. They are expected to show an improvement in their assessed criminogenic risk score at six months post-release. Additionally, participants are expected to show improvements in their substance use and mental health symptoms. They are expected to show an improvement in their recovery capital score at six months post-release. Datacorp will conduct semiannual project evaluations to inform quality improvement opportunities and a final project evaluation.