Communities fail to maximize opportunities to enhance long-term public safety when those discharged from jail with high risk and need are not identified and prepared properly for release, supervised, or supported in the community.
The TJC model allows you to use your dollars and your resources in a more cost-effective way by identifying partners for collaboration and allocating scarce resources wisely to best manage offenders based upon the level of risk they pose to your community. Sharing resources can save time and resources—particularly important in times of budgetary constraints. In the long term, collaborative partnerships that reduce recidivism and public health problems add up to substantial savings.
There are many examples of how the TJC model’s focus on collaboration can reduce unnecessary costs:
Many individuals in jails have co-occurring needs, so the TJC model is designed to put an infrastructure in place to motivate individuals to effectively address their risk and needs. Such an infrastructure at the agency level benefits recently released individuals who want to take ownership of their transition and recovery plans1.
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“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” describes the synergy that can occur when agencies adopt the TJC model. Agencies that operate in “silos” that don’t interact with outside partners agencies can’t compete with agency collaboration that pools knowledge and resources from across agencies and organizations. Jails can play a key role in this relationship, offering a framework that reinforces, regularizes, and rationalizes the notion of working together for the good of society.
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Jails can play a key role in this relationship, offering a framework that reinforces, regularizes, and rationalizes the notion of working together for the good of society.
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1 Robinson, M., and G. White. 1997. “The Role of Civic Organization in the Provision of Social Service: Towards Synergy.” Research for Action 37. Helsinki, Finland: World Institute for Development Economics Research.