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ABOUT/HISTORY

Purpose
We are committed to providing every man or woman the opportunity to become free from active addiction and begin the process of recovery so that they can get in touch with who they are, where they want to go and how to discover what stands in their way. We are tirelessly working toward a goal of healing for the individual as well as their families and the communities in which they live while lowering recidivism rates, crime, and broken families.

Mission and Philosophy Statement
We believe that every man or woman regardless of their criminal history or background can change. We believe that a number of factors contribute to the mind set and mentality of the individual and we have a unique way of leading them to discover their beliefs and behaviors that no longer server them in their lives. We are committed to identifying what the individual needs and assisting them in becoming productive and responsible members of society.

Other Philosophies
The RE-Entry process consists of five key elements that produce success in men and woman from the criminal justice system. Each component is vital and necessary for individual success.

• Assessment/Evaluation/case management.
• Cognitive behavioral change.
• Treatment/Education/life skills/family treatment
• Safe Transition/ permanent housing.
• Workforce development assessment/ training/ education/job placement/SSA.

Habilitate vs. Rehabilitate
Habilitate: to make fit or capable (as for functioning in society)
rehabilitate:
to restore to a former capacity : REINSTATE b : to restore to good repute : reestablish the good name of
2 a : to restore to a former state (as of efficiency, good management, or solvency) <rehabilitate slum areas> b : to restore or bring to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity

1. All-or-nothing thinking - thinking of things in absolute terms, like “always”, “every” or “never”. few aspects of human behavior are so absolute.

2. Overgeneralization - taking isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations.

3. Mental filter - focusing exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting, aspects of something while ignoring the rest, like a tiny imperfection in a piece of clothing.

4. Disqualifying the positive - continually “shooting down” positive experiences for arbitrary, ad hoc reasons.

5. Jumping to conclusions - assuming something negative where there is no evidence to support it. two specific subtypes are also identified:

• Mind reading - assuming the intentions of others.
• Fortune telling - predicting how things will turn before they happen.

6. magnification and minimization - inappropriately understating or exaggerating the way people or situations truly are. often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characteristics are understated.

There is one subtype of magnification:
• Catastrophizing - focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.

7. Emotional reasoning - making decisions and arguments based on how you feel rather than objective reality.

8. Making should statements - concentrating on what you think “should” or ought to be rather than the actual situation you are faced with, or having rigid rules which you think should always apply no matter what the circumstances are. albert ellis termed this “musterbation”.

9. Labeling - explaining behaviors or events, merely by naming them; related to overgeneralization. rather than describing the specific behavior, you assign a label to someone or yourself that puts them in absolute and unalterable terms.

10. Personalization - assuming you or others directly caused things when that may not have been the case. when applied to others this is an example of blame.

Research on criminals and criminal behavior emphasizes that how people think determines their behavior. Conceptually, thoughts determine feelings which in turn influence choices that determine behavior. The assumption is that to change criminal behavior, the criminal must focus on changing his or her thinking, and behavior change cannot happen without this (Spon, 1999).

Research on factors associated with success in treatment of delinquent and criminal behavior revealed that almost every successful program shared one characteristic: it included some technique which had an impact on the delinquent's thinking (Ross & Ross, 1989). Statistics have shown that cognitive model approaches with offenders in institutions and community settings reduced recidivism as much as 74% in follow-up periods for three to 15 years after treatment (Ross & Ross, 1989; Ross, Fabiano, 9 Ross, 1988).

Effective programs have been conducted in a variety of correctional settings and with a variety of offenders. Examples of such programs are prevention programs with pre-delinquents, diversion programs for adolescent offenders, community programs for hardcore juvenile and adult offenders, and institutional programs for recidivist adult offenders and criminal heroin addicts (Ross, Fabiano, & Ross, 1988).

A study by Collingwood (as cited in Ross & Ross, 1989) of 16-year-old offenders showed that cognitive-behavioral treatment reduced arrest rates by 50%. The CREST delinquency treatment program in Florida (as cited in Ross & Ross, 1989) demonstrated a 50% reduction in recidivism using cognitive-behavioral interventions in eight independent experimental studies over 11 years.

In 2001, Tina Spradling conducted a study to determine if teaching cognitive problem solving skills for offenders was an effective method for reducing inmate infractions in a maximum-security level institution (Spradling, 2001 ). Her results revealed that inmates participating in a program designed to teach offenders skills that allowed them to control physical, mental, and emotional reactions in social situations had a 60.3% reduction over the control group in disciplinary actions received. The results of her study suggest that a constructive problem-solving, cognitive-behavioral approach can assist inmates in avoiding disciplinary problems within the confines of a correctional center.

The major premise of a cognitive problem solving skills program is that what an offender thinks, how he views the world, how well he understands people, what he values, how he reasons, and how he attempts to solve problems plays an important role in his criminal behavior (Porporino, Fabiano, Robinson, as cited in Spradling, 2001). The basic assumption of the cognitive model is that an offender's thinking should be the primary target for rehabilitation.

There is substantial literature on cognitive-based programs in working with individuals within corrections. A recent study on Truthought's Corrective Thinking Model (Hubbard, 2002) found that this curriculum appears to be effective because it focuses on changing the anti-social patterns of the offender's thinking. Those who completed the program had lower re-arrest rates compared to those who did not complete the program.

HISTORY
Rick Jaramillo the founder and Executive Director of the Re-entry Program has committed his life to helping people change their lives. After being an addict, living a life of crime and incarcerated for over 20 years of his life Rick made the decision to change his own life. Before leaving prison serving his last of 7 terms, he had no idea what to do when he got out but knew he wanted something different.

The man that picked him up from prison offered to show him the way. He immediately got involved in a recovery program and has remained clean and sober ever since. A year after he got out he opened the first “Re-Entry” facility. He realized that there where men just like him needing some help and an opportunity but where offered very little resources. He would take them in with no money and minimal positions, and lead them in a direction to better their lives and stay out of prison.

The program began to grow with his success in the men he worked with. He established a relationship with the county parole department and began living his purpose. He eventually established many Re-Entry men’s facilities and became the most successful program in the county.

Since that time Richard has worked in the field as a Substance Abuse Counselor, Anger Management Counselor, Domestic Violence Counselor, Parenting Group Facilitator, Theft Recovery and Rehabilitation Counselor. He has done extensive work in the area of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, working with men, woman and Juvenile Offenders and their families.
Richard Jaramillo is currently a member of the Presley group that is headed by Senator Robert Presley and in the lead role of solving California’s recidivism rate by providing housing, treatment and education. Richard Jaramillo has been very active in the community and has sat on many boards of directors such as PCOH (Placer Consortium on Homelessness), PCAC (Placer community action counsel) (HEAD START), KidZcount, HAP (housing Alliance of placer) Re-Entry Board.

Richard has also developed and implemented discharge planning and procedures for the Placer County Jail in conjunction with Home Base of San Francisco, HUD of California and the Placer County Jail. He is currently working on the discharge planning and procedures for the hospitals homeless population. Richard Jaramillo has been featured in documentaries for Television, Radio shows, and the topic of news paper articles in local state and out of state news papers. Richard Jaramillo does pre-release programs in the state prison system and works closely with members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association where he is regularly published on their web blog and has been the cover story of the peace keeper magazine. (See Press Link)

He married his wife Jennifer Jaramillo in 2006 and they began a partnership in helping not only suffering men but began taking in women and children as well. She has since taken Rick’s philosophies and molded them to cater to a feminine environment. They have three children which whom are their world. You will hear them say, “Our number one purpose is raising our children and giving them the best possible parents we can be, and our number two purpose is helping addicts and ex-convicts find another way so that THEIR children can have the parents and life that they deserve.”  They work side by side with the men and women in the community with a purpose of leading men and women to determine and overcome any and all barriers that stand in their way of recovery, parenting, employment, and being successful. They will lead the individual to a place of getting rid false beliefs and mentalities that no longer serve them and their new life. They will then do whatever they can to assist them along in their process.

The Program has had very little help as far as funding. They have been able to keep the doors open depending solely on the word and action of the client becoming self sufficient.

The Jaramillo’s and Re-entry staff are committed to their purpose to serve the community in a way that benefits all involved. They work diligently on coming up with solutions and strategies to lower crime rates, recidivism rates, split family cycles, and death tolls.