Ensuring the delivery of cognitive behavioral intervention and/or employment readiness services. Conducting re-entry service plan reviews, with CRTF participants, and document progress. Coordinating services to individuals and assisting with the development of individual re-entry service plans to ensure participants are receiving services deemed critical for success. Engaging state and local partners to provide benefits, services and community-level support that address the criminogenic and stabilization needs of task force clients. Promoting the task force’s role as a referral agent that connects re-entry clients with needed services. The coordinator serves as the liaison to DOCCS and DCJS and oversees the day-to-day functions of the CRTF by: To achieve state and local re-entry goals, CRTFs conduct strategic planning to develop effective approaches to serving individuals, build local capacity to meet service needs, identify gaps in services and assess the effectiveness of the county’s re-entry system for consistency with principles of effective practice, which includes the use of Motivational Interviewing techniques, cognitive behavioral approaches positive reinforcement and engagement in ongoing, pro-social support among others.ĬRTFs also engage formerly incarcerated individuals and their families and the greater community to encourage participation in re-entry planning and programming through activities including, but not limited to public awareness campaigns mentoring programs community forums on relevant topics and panel discussions featuring re-entry stakeholders and outreach to employers and the business community. 
CRTFs provide access to services and assistance that allows individuals to transition home and remain crime-free by focusing on stabilization needs, service coordination and the provision of cognitive behavioral interventions and/or employment readiness programs. Task Forces coordinate and manage services provided to individuals who are returning to their communities after serving a state prison sentence and determined to be at moderate or high risk of reoffending.
The goal of New York State’s re-entry strategy is to reduce recidivism and promote community safety. To that end, DCJS partners with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to support County Re-Entry Task Forces (CRTFs) in 20 counties: Albany, Bronx, Broome, Dutchess, Erie, Kings, Monroe, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Orange, Queens, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schenectady, Suffolk, Ulster, and Westchester. Staff of the Vocation/Education, Employment and Re-Entry (VER) Unit within the Office of Probation and Correctional Alternatives at DCJS provide training, technical assistance and support to the Task Forces.
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