5225 Corrections and Rehabilitation
Program Descriptions

46 - ADULT EDUCATION, VOCATION, AND OFFENDER PROGRAMS - OFFENDER SERVICES

The objective of the Office of Offender Services (OS) is to plan, develop, implement and monitor activities for in-prison and community-based, reentry, employment, addiction and recovery services within the CDCR. OS is responsible for overseeing and implementing a full continuum of evidence-based programs, including in-prison substance abuse treatment programs, community-based aftercare, reentry, employment and rehabilitation programs to promote pro-social behavior, reduce recidivism and relapse. These programs include, but are not limited to: in-custody substance abuse treatment programs, residential aftercare programs, the Female Offender Treatment Employment Program, the Parolee Services Network, In-Custody Drug Treatment Programs and prison reentry and employment programs. OS works with a variety of public and private entities to establish this continuum of offender services.