Fellowship Forensic Services
Fellowship Forensic Services (FFS) is committed to aid in public safety by working with criminally involved persons through rehabilitation and reintegration programs, as well as educating criminal justice staff about behavioral health practices.
FFS offers mental health programming consultation, workforce development services, and offender psychoeducational programming for correctional systems and facilities. With our consultation and reorganization services, we can aid in the development of mental health programs, policies, and procedures to help facilities achieve and maintain accreditation. Fellowship Forensic Services can construct programs to fit a facility’s individual needs. We have a proven discharge-planning and diversion program model, aimed to reduce recidivism rates for mentally ill inmates that can be tailored to various communities.
Therapeutic & Psychoeducational Groups
FFS offers a variety of group topics aimed to help in the rehabilitation process of incarcerated and/or detained individuals. Examples of groups offered are: Anger Management, Criminal & Addictive Thinking, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Education, Interpersonal Communication, Stress Management, Violence in Society, and Women’s Trauma.
Corrections Workforce Training
Training is offered to correctional officers, counseling staff, and other facility staff to educate them about current practices related to mental illness and behavioral management, and provide them with the skills necessary to manage difficult populations in a correctional setting.
Consultation & Reorganization
FFS consultants will assess and improve upon a facility’s current mental health infrastructure, as well as assist in the development and implementation of behavioral health policies and procedures.
Mental Health Treatment
FFS currently conducts psychiatric evaluations and provides mental health counseling and medication management for individuals on Federal Probation in the State of Rhode Island.
Community Reintegration Services
Diversion and discharge-planning program model that offers support and advocacy to individuals with serious and persistent mental illness in criminal justice systems.
Productive Citizenship Program
Eight-week program geared toward preparing incarcerated individuals for release back into the community. Covers topics such as: Communication, Values, Relapse Prevention, Anger Management, Employment Skills, and Setting Goals and Sobriety, among others.
Drug Court
Fellowship Foresic Services is currently the primary referral target for intensive outpatient drug treatment from Drug Court in Wake County, North Carolina.