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Rapid Screening, Assessment, and Referral to Services
Expediting pathways to justice
Quickly Matching Risk and Need with Accountability and Services
Around two-thirds of arrestees nationally have a substance use, mental health, or co-occurring disorder. By identifying these issues and intervening more quickly with the right level of accountability
By identifying these issues and intervening more quickly with the right level of accountability and services, justice systems can interrupt the destructive cycle of crime, arrest, and incarceration and improve outcomes for individuals and communities alike.
All Rise’s Center for Advancing Justice teaches justice system professionals about risk-need-responsivity principles and help put those principles into practice with rapid screening, assessment, and referrals to appropriate services and supervision. Our team of subject matter experts works alongside justice system leaders to develop tailored, practical strategies.
Areas of Focus
Risk-Need Screening
We help jurisdictions select and use validated risk-need screening tools that provide essential information for connecting individuals to effective programs and services, developing tailored supervision plans, and offering suitable diversion opportunities.
Clinical Assessment
We help justice systems build the capacity to conduct clinical assessments and refer individuals for individualized treatment and supportive services. Working with local service partners, we help develop immediate connections to care, thereby reducing overdose deaths, preventing suicide, and providing treatment to those who need it.
Addressing Gaps
We help jurisdictions analyze their justice system data and identify opportunities to offer new programs, services, and diversion opportunities targeted to the needs of their justice-involved population. Using evidence-based models and practices, we help courts and their partners streamline case processing and achieve improved outcomes for defendants, victims, and the community.
Data and Sustainability
We work with courts and justice system agencies to develop data collection and evaluation strategies that support program development, evaluation, and sustainability.
“Justice systems can be equipped with the knowledge and tools to address the full range of criminogenic risks and needs in their community. By matching individuals with the appropriate level of accountability and treatment, communities can see less crime, fewer jail days, and better use of available resources.”
– Nisha Wilson, director, Center for Advancing Justice
Kenosha County, Wisconsin
In 2024, we partnered with Kenosha County, WI to implement presentence risk-need assessments. Of the county’s nearly 6,000 annual arrests, an estimated 72% involve individuals with substance use issues. We are currently working with a wide range of local justice and community stakeholders to build a criminogenic risk-need screening and assessment hub to provide court partners with informed diversion referrals and make the most of available supervision and treatment resources.
Work with CAJ
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