Liberty Behavioral Health

Phase III: Community Monitoring

This phase is mandatory for SOMM Parolees.

The Phase III program is designed to support and optimize the community reintegration process for SOMM offenders including:

• Multi-agency collaboration - SOMM District Coordinators, Specialized Parole Agents, and a Network of credentialed sex offender treatment providers and polygraphers.
• Monitor Parolee's participation in community-based treatment and adherence to parole stipulations.
• Maintaining a tracking system to monitor outcomes, and tracking re-offenses by type.
• Sharing knowledge of sex offenders within a Containment Team.

Containment Approach

The containment approach allows for and encourages communication among the agencies involved in monitoring and managing sex offenders in the community. This promotes wider coverage of the sex offender's movement, compliance with Sex Offender Parole Stipulations, and socialization back into the community. Open communication among the agencies also helps to counteract the inevitable manipulations, denial, and secretiveness that characterize sexual offending behavior patterns. Each discipline and agency brings its own expertise and specific information about a given sex offender. All are valuable in creating a more thorough understanding of risk factors and individual needs. In this approach, the SOMM District Coordinators, the Indiana Department of Correction, Indiana Parole Board, Indiana Court Systems, other state agencies, local law enforcement, community agencies, treatment providers and polygraphers, and others work together to monitor compliance with post-release conditions for supervison, including sex offender-specific treatment, cognitive-behavioral management, polygraphy, and other services and supports.

Regular containment team meetings include the SOMM network treatment provider, polygrapher, specialized parole agent and district coordinator. The containment team approach enhances community safety and can be an important element to assist in reducing recidivism in Indiana.