Programs to strengthen the stability, health, and well-being of incarcerated and reentering individuals and their families.
Pinebrook Family Answers offers treatment programming to individuals incarcerated in Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties. The goal is to improve child outcomes, enhance family relationships, promote employment opportunities, and connect individuals and families affected by incarceration with needed supportive services, with an objective of increasing the safety and economic well-being of reentering individuals, their families, and the communities to which they return.
The Leaving Jail Program is funded by a Federal Second Chance Act grant. This innovative reentry program is designed to address the unique needs of incarcerated women, through trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and culturally competent programming. Leaving Jail bridges the gap between pre- and post-release services to foster successful reentry back into the community and reduce recidivism.
Services available vary by location but include:
Seeking Safety addresses the effects of trauma and substance abuse.
Risk/Needs assessment: The Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) is a dynamic risk/needs assessment system used with adult offenders to determine programming needs during and after incarceration.
Thinking for a Change: Thinking for a Change (T4C) is an evidence-based integrated cognitive behavioral curriculum that promotes more accurate and useful thinking and teaches social and problem-solving skills.
Parenting Inside-Out: Parenting Inside Out is parent-training program specifically for parents in the criminal justice system. By learning parenting skills, mothers and fathers can positively impact their children and break the cycle of criminality.
MRT Moral Reconation Therapy: MRT is a treatment strategy designed to enhance self-image, promote growth of a positive, productive identity, and facilitate the development of higher stages of moral reasoning.
Anger management: Correctional Counseling’s Coping with Anger, is designed to help clients recognize, overcome, and control anger.
Theft Remediation Services – StopLift
Participants examine their personal motives for stealing, learn about the legal consequences of continuing to steal and gain skills to prevent a reoccurrence of the behavior. Offenders are referred by District Judges and pay a $100 fee in lieu of a judicially imposed fine. For more information, including class schedules and fees, please call 610-432-3919 ext. 2264.
For more information, please contact Lori VanDoren. Director of Forensic Services at or by calling 610-432-3919 ext. 1179