Jail Diversion Services for offenders with medical and mental impairments…...
Andrews Center can provide services for Offenders with Medical and Mental Impairments and their families. These services are provided through the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI). The Center's TCOOMMI program serves adult individuals on parole or probation in Rains, Wood, Henderson, Smith and Van Zandt Counties. For more information contact the TCOOMI office:
Phone:
903.526.4791
Email:
Carol Mantooth
WHAT ARE TCOOMMI'S ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS?
Entry in the TCOOMMI services is based on the individual being an offender who has been assessed and diagnosed as having a priority mental illness of major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or diagnosed as being mentally retarded. Priority is given to prior prison release referrals, probationers in Van Zandt and Rains Counties and to offenders in local jails. Emergency Services are available to all referrals or offenders.
Priority is given to the following:
- individuals on parole who were assessed and referred to the program prior to their release from prison
- individuals being released from Substance Abuse Felony Punishment facilities
- mentally impaired offenders incarcerated in local jails
Other referrals from probation or parole will be accepted in the program as the budget allows.
The Center also has an Adult Probation Program that is specific to Rains and Van Zandt Counties. This program has a Case Manager who provides intensive service coordination, linking to community services, assessment of needs and crisis intervention services.
Services offered to offenders currently incarcerated include:Other services for parole and probation consumers include:
- New arrest cross-reference with the Texas Department of State Health Services' CARE system
- Pre and post-booking advocacy for release to treatment instead of incarceration
- Evaluation while incarcerated
- Advocacy for treatment at the offenders' court hearing
- Assessment
- Psychiatric services
- Medication services
- Nursing services
- Social security eligibility processing
- Crisis management services
Mental Health - Jail Diversion
- Overview
- ACT Team
- Case Mgmt. / Rehab
- Continuity of Care
- Counseling
- Hospital Referral
- Jail Diversion
- Medical Management
- Medication Assistance
- Veterans
TCOOMMI’S SERVICE OBJECTIVES
The primary objectives of this program are to reduce initial imprisonment, reduce recidivism and to divert offenders with mental illness, mental retardation and severe medical impairments to appropriate treatments instead of incarceration.
MISSION STATEMENT
“To provide a formal structure of criminal justice, health and human services and other affected organizations to communicate and coordinate on policy, legislative, and programmatic issues affecting offenders with special needs.”