UCHRA Day Reporting Centers To Begin Services In October

UCHRA’s grant funded initiative to reduce the amount of drug offenders serving time should begin in October.

That is according to Executive Director Mark Farley. Farley said the three reporting centers to be located in Putnam, Smith and Warren Counties have been staffed.

“We’ve actually been able to hire licensed staff to do this work, so we have a group of individuals coming on board at each one of the locations that is going to provide the clinical oversight of this program working with these individuals,” Farley said.

Farley said courts would sentence individuals to a day reporting center. Farley said they would be required to go through a drug treatment program. Farley said once released, the individual would then report daily at a center to ultimately transition back into the workforce.

Farley said at any given time, about 45 individuals would be in the program. Farley said each location represents a different Judaical District. Farley said the Putnam and Smith County locations will be at each county’s UCHRA office location. Farley said a lease agreement is in the works for the Warren County center.