AdCare Criminal Justice Services (ACJS)

AdCare Criminal Justice Services :
In collaboration with the Office of Community Corrections, the county-based Sheriff’s Departments, Probation, Parole, and the Department of Correction, AdCare Criminal Justice Services provides a variety of intermediate sanction treatment programs through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ACJS is the largest single provider of community corrections education and treatment services in the Commonwealth, with programs in Barnstable, Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, and Suffolk Counties.

Mental Health Services :
AdCare Criminal Justice Services has responded to the urgent need for the care and management of incarcerated people with mental disorders by developing a model forensic mental health delivery system. Through proper staff training and orientation of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other clinicians in assessment and intervention strategies, ACJS has been able to drastically reduce the cost of psychotropic medication while increasing the quality of mental health care provided to inmates.

The ACJS model Mental Health Services program focuses on screening and identifying need, crisis intervention, short-term treatment/stabilization, management of psychotropic medication, utilization review, case management/referral services, and coordination of post-commitment care.