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Resident Programs

The CBCF utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) curricula for its core programming. The CBCF also offers GED services and other activities that assist the residents in their preparation for successful community reentry.

Residents are enrolled in one or more of the following CBT programs offered at the CBCF:

Designed to provide a thorough intervention that broadly targets all criminogenic needs. This intervention relies on a cognitive behavioral approach to teach strategies to manage risk factors. The program places heavy emphasis on skill-building activities to assist with cognitive, social, emotional, and coping skill development.

This intervention relies on a cognitive behavioral approach to teach strategies for avoiding substance abuse. The program emphasizes skill-building activities to assist with cognitive, social, emotional, and coping skill development.

This structured curriculum relies on a cognitive-behavioral approach to teach participants strategies for avoiding sexual offending and related behaviors. Specifically, the program emphasizes skill-building activities to assist with cognitive, social, emotional, and coping skills development. The goal is to increase participants' value of pro-social thoughts and choices.

To successfully use new skills in everyday life, individuals in group interventions need to practice them in a variety of situations with increasing difficulty. This curriculum provides a structured way to assist high-risk residents in practicing skills learned through core programming in a progressively more challenging way using more difficult situations with increased pressure. Group members continue to practice cognitive restructuring, emotion regulation, social skills, and problem-solving throughout their participation in the group.

High and very high-risk residents participate in this course that draws on the latest research on criminal thinking and addresses the issue of criminal behavior with a cognitive-behavioral approach. Succinct and astonishingly relevant, the Greek philosopher’s words show how to live a responsible life - inside or outside prison. With the help of Epictetus’ ancient wisdom, residents meet the daily challenges of their lives. Learning to think outside the limits of their own literal walls as they struggle to redeem themselves, residents learn to think beyond their own self-imposed limitations and comfort zones.

A cognitive behavioral intervention program to help residents improve social skill competence and moral reasoning, better manage anger, reduce aggressive behavior, and ultimately reduce recidivism. Program techniques are designed to teach residents how to control their angry impulses and take perspectives other than their own.

The following services/programs are also offered at the CBCF:

 
  • Academic Education (Aspire): Residents that need to complete their GED are placed in classes appropriate to their scores on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE). They remain in GED classes, working toward their GED, until they are successful or complete the CBCF program. Residents are afforded the opportunity to take practice tests prior to sitting for individual topic exams. Residents must pass all four sections of the test to earn their GED.
  • Community Service: Residents participate at a limited number of community service project sites throughout the local community. This experience works to establish pro-social contacts within the community, elevate the degree of community confidence in the rehabilitation process, and enhance the basic work skills and work ethic of the resident. It also allows the resident to experience the benefits of “giving back.”
  • Volunteer Services: Approved volunteers offer residents the opportunity to participate in religious services/small groups, various 12-Step meetings, motivational speaking events, and other activities at the facility.
  • Family Engagement Activities: To encourage strong support systems, special family engagement activities are planned allowing residents the opportunity to visit with their family, if approved by their treatment team.
 
  • TYRO Leadership (The Ridge Project): TYRO Leadership teaches the life skills needed to be a responsible parent and partner, better communicator, reliable employee, and positive role model.
  • TYRO Core Communication (The Ridge Project): Residents are taught six talking skills and five listening skills for resolving conflicts, making decisions, solving problems, and negotiating more effectively. These practical communication skills strengthen relationships and increase personal and professional opportunities.
  • Financial Management (The Ridge Project) - Your Money, Your Goals: This class assists the residents in building the skills needed to manage finances in a way that promotes financial stability. This class also highlights how financial management plays an important role in healthy relationships.
  • Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence (The Ridge Project): Residents learn what domestic violence is and the signs of domestic violence patterns. The signs of unhealthy versus healthy relationships are covered as well as who and how domestic violence affects them, others, and their children. This helps the residents understand the importance of breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
  • Fatherhood/Parenting Program (Action for Children, Healing Broken Circles & Nationwide Children’s Hospital): This helps the residents strengthen the healthy bond between father and child. Residents can learn and practice healthy communication with their child(ren) and their child(ren)’s caregiver(s), learn about child development, and gain an understanding of children’s emotional and cognitive growth.
  • Future Bound (The Ridge Project & Ohio Means Jobs): Residents participate in a four-week work force development program designed to help them seek and obtain employment. This class includes resume writing, researching jobs via the internet, interviewing skills (virtual vs. in-person), proper interview attire, etc.
  • Settling the Score (ARCH Reentry): This trauma informed class is a new approach to reentry preparation that accounts for the unique impact that both life and incarceration have on the hearts, minds, and bodies of those coming home from any period of confinement. Residents develop an understanding of the clusters and symptoms of Post Incarceration Syndrome (PICS), increase their ability to identify signs of PTSD in their own life, and learn how to bring coping and healing by developing ways to problem solve in any situation.