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Supportive Release Center Study
Sponsor: University of Chicago
Summary
The Supportive Release Center (SRC) is a collaboration between the University of Chicago Urban Health Lab, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, Heartland Alliance Health, and the Cook County Sheriff's office. The aim of the SRC is to identify individuals with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and other vulnerabilities as they are released from the Cook County Jail (CCJ), provide an improved environment to assess needs of these individuals, and facilitate effective linkages with social services following release, including medical care and substance use or mental health treatment. The SRC improves the current standard of care offered at the CCJ by introducing mechanisms to facilitate engagement with post-release services and address individuals' immediate acute needs. The primary objective of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the impact of assignment to the SRC on the number of arrests within one year of study enrollment among eligible men being released from the Cook County Jail. Researchers hypothesize that the SRC is more effective than usual care at facilitating and ensuring receipt of transition services and care, and that receipt of this treatment will decrease the number of arrests within one year of study enrollment.
Key Details
Gender
MALE
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
15195
Start Date
2017-11-06
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-04-11
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
TASC Service Linkages - Discharge Area Only
Individuals will meet with TASC Care Coordinators in the discharge area of the Cook County Jail. Individuals will be screened for housing, health and behavioral health needs and then linked to appropriate community-based services.
SRC Overnight Stay
Individuals receiving SRC services will have the option to stay at the SRC overnight. At the SRC, individuals will be able to rest, have a meal, receive a change of clothes, and take a shower in a therapeutic, non-coercive environment.
TASC Services Linkages - SRC Onsite
While at the SRC, individuals will meet with TASC Care Coordinators. Individuals will be screened for housing, health and behavioral health needs and then linked to appropriate community-based services.
APN Appointment
Individuals at the SRC will be able to meet with an Advanced Practice Nurse. As part of that visit, the APN will be able to prescribe medications or reroute prescriptions previously administered by the Cook County Jail's hospital, Cermak, to a participant's desired location as needed.
Locations (1)
Cook County Department of Corrections & SRC
Chicago, Illinois, United States