Mental Health Case Management
All inmates are screened at intake for mental illness, and all inmates are evaluated later in their incarceration if severe mental health problems arise. Those inmates with particularly severe diagnoses are monitored and routinely re-evaluated throughout their incarceration by mental health case managers. The mental health case managers assign mentally ill inmates to the programs listed below as needed. They also provide mental health crisis services. The mental health case managers routinely provide consultation and training to institution correctional officers and to other institution staff.
 
Medication Management
The Department employs and contracts with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners to prescribe psychiatric medications as appropriate. These prescribers work closely with the mental health case managers to ensure treatment continuity. Inmates who do not need other critical services may receive medication only.

Individual and Group Treatment
The Department contracts with licensed mental health providers for individual and group treatment of severe and persistent mental illness. Individual sessions are short-term, and restricted to crisis situations. Group treatment focuses on learning the skills to manage mental illness within the institutions, and in the community after prison discharge.
 

For additional information contact Dr. Shari Melton:
Telephone # (503) 378-8373
Shari.J.Melton@doc.state.or.us

The Special Management Units are located at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, Snake River Correctional Institutions in Ontario and Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Special Management Units provide both short-term psychiatric crisis services (typically two weeks) for stabilization, diagnosis, or medication adjustment; and a longer term psychosocial rehabilitation program for severely mentally ill inmates. In extreme cases, inmates may be started on involuntary medications on Special Management Units, under conditions approved by the courts.
 
For additional information contact Regina Nekuda(OSP)
Telephone # (503) 378-2438 regina.a.nekuda@doc.state.or.us   
or Jana Russell (CCCF):
Telephone # (503) 570-6758 
Jana.A.Russell@doc.state.or.us or Brad Holt (SRCI) Telephone # (541) 881-4860 Brad.W.Holt@doc.state.or.us    

The Challenge of Prison Experience (COPE) Program at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton is on a 74-bed unit providing day treatment services to inmates who are struggling to function in the general prison population, but who do not need the intensive treatment level provided at the Special Management Units. Inmates participate in groups and classes to help them learn basic coping skills, and live in a dormitory setting that emphasizes and requires peer support. Inmates typically stay about six months in the COPE program.
 
For additional information contact Claudia Fischer-Rodriguez:
Telephone # (541) 278-7126 Claudia.A.Fischer-Rodriguez@doc.state.or.us

Case Management
All inmates are screened at intake for low intellectual functioning. All qualifying inmates are followed by a Developmental Disabilities Case Manager at either OSCI or SRCI for males. Case management consists of monitoring, regular contacts to assess inmate status, program referral, and a limited amount of group counseling. 

Connections
The Connections program at Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem provides day treatment services for up to 50 inmates who need more than case management alone. The Shangri-La Corporation provides the program, which focuses on work skill development, life skill training, and integration into mainstream prison services. Connections also provides a transition program for inmates just prior to prison release.

The FREEDOM program for men (50 beds at Columbia River Correctional Institution) and the STARR program for women (54 beds at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility) function much like the Pre-Release Day Treatment programs, except that they provide services to inmates with both drug abuse and severe mental health disorders.
 

For more information contact Hazel Whitman (CCCF)
Telephone # (503) 570-6557

hazel.j.whitman@doc.state.or.us

 

or

 

Richard Gorringe (CRCI)

Telephone # (503) 280-6646 Ext. 315

richard.a.gorringe@doc.state.or.us