Supportive Release Center Study

Summary

The Supportive Release Center (SRC) is a collaboration between the University of Chicago Urban Health Lab, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, Heartland Alliance Health, and the Cook County Sheriff's office. The aim of the SRC is to identify individuals with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and other vulnerabilities as they are released from the Cook County Jail (CCJ), provide an improved environment to assess needs of these individuals, and facilitate effective linkages with social services following release, including medical care and substance use or mental health treatment. The SRC improves the current standard of care offered at the CCJ by introducing mechanisms to facilitate engagement with post-release services and address individuals' immediate acute needs. The primary objective of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the impact of assignment to the SRC on the number of arrests within one year of study enrollment among eligible men being released from the Cook County Jail. Researchers hypothesize that the SRC is more effective than usual care at facilitating and ensuring receipt of transition services and care, and that receipt of this treatment will decrease the number of arrests within one year of study enrollment.

Conditions

• Mental Health
• Mental Health Services
• Substance Use
• Continuity of Patient Care
• Recidivism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TASC Service Linkages - Discharge Area Only

Individuals will meet with TASC Care Coordinators in the discharge area of the Cook County Jail. Individuals will be screened for housing, health and behavioral health needs and then linked to appropriate community-based services.

BEHAVIORAL

SRC Overnight Stay

Individuals receiving SRC services will have the option to stay at the SRC overnight. At the SRC, individuals will be able to rest, have a meal, receive a change of clothes, and take a shower in a therapeutic, non-coercive environment.

BEHAVIORAL

TASC Services Linkages - SRC Onsite

While at the SRC, individuals will meet with TASC Care Coordinators. Individuals will be screened for housing, health and behavioral health needs and then linked to appropriate community-based services.

BEHAVIORAL

APN Appointment

Individuals at the SRC will be able to meet with an Advanced Practice Nurse. As part of that visit, the APN will be able to prescribe medications or reroute prescriptions previously administered by the Cook County Jail's hospital, Cermak, to a participant's desired location as needed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities Inc

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Heartland Health Research Alliance

  collaborator OTHER

• Sheriff's Office of Cook County, Illinois

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Robert R McCormick Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Pritzker Family Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Laura and John Arnold Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Center for the Advancement of Critical Time Intervention

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Chicago

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• David Meltzer, MD, PhD · University of Chicago

• Harold Pollack, PhD · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-11-06

Primary Completion

2021-03-31

Completion

2025-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations