Welcome to Telebehavioral Health Services
From Elevation Health Services
Welcome to Telebehavioral Health Services
From Elevation Health Services
Removing barriers to treatment for clients while reducing the coordination of behavioral health services for agencies—that’s what EHS programming provides to criminal justice treatment programs, via our revolutionary telebehavioral health treatment model. Virtual, real-time counseling sessions with experienced counselors combined with proven cognitive behavioral content. And it’s all delivered right to a client’s tablet/computer or mobile device.
Accessible, Affordable, Secure
EHS removes the barriers to treatment services that often reduce compliance and completion rates. The EHS behavioral health team conducts assessments, treatment sessions, classes, and reporting—all online via our secure Client Portal. Our model eliminates the challenges that location, transportation, childcare, and scheduling often present. And EHS alleviates the financial burden on supervising agencies. The result: Better program completion rates, better compliance with supervision requirements, and better long-term outcomes.
Our Community Partners
For our Community Partners, the courts and agencies that refer clients to EHS, we handle the coordination of treatment services and reporting. Our team works as a liaison between agencies; clients; and an interdisciplinary team of medical, psychosocial, and therapeutic professionals. EHS reduces the agency staff time spent facilitating access to services and collecting reports on attendance, participation, progress, and completion. We also provide regular reporting that allows agencies to easily review program outcome data and identify trends in compliance and program effectiveness.
Screenings and Assessments
Our program begins with an online assessment that allows the EHS behavioral health team to customize an Individualized Treatment Plan (ITP) based on the criminogenic needs of each client. Our administrators conduct testing and social assessments and incorporate information provided by the referral source (probation/parole or the courts).
Moral Reconation Therapy® (MRT)
Our programming includes Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), an evidence-based cognitive behavioral treatment modality listed by SAMHSA on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices. MRT is an objective, step-by-step program that has been used for more than two decades to address a wide array of behavioral issues in thousands of settings. In particular, MRT programs have shown a proven benefit to clients dealing with mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Individual and Group Treatment
The most powerful component of EHS programming is the ease of access to our video supported treatment sessions. Clients participate in these virtual sessions online via their desktop/laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. EHS gives clients easier access to face time with qualified treatment staff—a known determinant for improved treatment outcomes.
Studies show that telebehavioral health sessions are equally or even more effective than in-person sessions. Sessions are with qualified EHS treatment staff, and we refer clients to psychological and psychiatric testing and/or services as appropriate.
Thinking for Change
Thinking for a Change 4.0 (T4C) is an integrated cognitive behavioral change program under a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC). T4C incorporates research from cognitive restructuring theory, social skills development, and the learning and use of problem solving skills.
Our Criminal Justice Programs
Evidence-based, individualized
Elevation Health Services has designed a proven content driven model that addresses some of the most common risk behaviors in the offender population, and we’ve identified four levels of Care that are based on factors such as a client’s previous treatment, alcohol and drug use, employment, previous and pending legal charges, and the supervising agency’s feedback and requirements.
Impaired Driving
While opioids and meth have taken center stage in the criminal justice world, alcohol still remains the number one drug of abuse. Combined, drug and alcohol impaired drives represent nearly 20% of the offender population on probation. Despite the best efforts of drunk driving programs for the past 20 years, impaired driving is an epidemic that occupies a disproportionately large portion of the criminal justice system. Whether a first-time or multiple DUI offender, behavioral health intervention is imperative to break the cycle of drinking/using and re-offending. Studies have shown that the EHS program model, Driving the Right Way, produces a substantial reduction in recidivism rates (two year recidivism dropped from 42% for standard probation to 4%), and increases (five year) retention rates from 60% to 96%.. Five year retention rate 96%; compared to under 60% prior to the program. Two-year recidivism was at 4%. Prior to the program, the average recidivism rate from standard probation was 42%.
Batterer’s Intervention Program (BIP)
According to a study done by the US DOJ, 75% of domestic violence victims report that their assailant was drunk or high at the time of their offense. EHS’s BIP programming provides an array of proven cognitive behavioral content; including a balanced approach to substance abuse, conflict resolution, and cognitive restructuring for the faulty belief system within their programming aimed at breaking the cycle of violence.
Addiction and Substance Abuse
An estimated one-half of incarcerated state and federal prisoners and 40% of those on probation or parole suffer from substance abuse or addiction. Yet less than 10% of received treatment in the previous year. Since the 1980s, Drug Courts have incorporated treatment-based programming to the criminal justice system. Research has shown repeatedly that these evidence-based programs reduce recidivism, reduce the burden on the criminal justice system, and change the lives of clients and their families. EHS provides content driven intervention models that have shown to increase skill building and restructure faulty cognitive beliefs. The EHS treatment models have studies that support producing long term success for clients and a reduction in recidivism as long as 20 years post incarceration.
Square pegs don’t fit in to round holes. And getting clients the right programming, right when they need it, is key to better long-term outcomes. That’s why EHS staff create Individualized Treatment Plans for each participant. Clients may be required to complete ITPs that address co-occurring issues such as addiction and substance abuse, anger management, mental health, co-dependency, or trauma recovery. Additional treatment programming may include parenting, job readiness training, criminal thinking, or relapse prevention. Elevation Health Services matches the treatment to the client.