Defend your client from unreasonable and overwhelming

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1 Defend your client from unreasonable and overwhelming prosecution. Eva Gregory, MEd., MA, ICCJAP, SAP, LCDC, CART Texas License #9415 1

2 Richard Gregory, Executive Director Eva Franklin-Gregory, Program Director, MA, CCJAP, LCDC Dr. Raymond Johnson, LPC, Fran Hopkins, LCDC, CCJAP, Mavis Jackson, LCDC, CCJA, Cheryl Wynn, LCDC; Oshea Martin, CI-4000 Hrs. Clinical Staff & Educators: Marisele Herrera, Spanish Counselor , option #2. Ernesto Dominguez Copyright Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. 2

3 EVA FRANKLIN GREGORY THE CLINICAL DIRECTOR, QCC AND FOUNDER IS MRS. GREGORY, LCDC. CCJAP, SAP, TDOP Instructor, CART. Gregory s owned First Step Counseling of Houston for 11 years. They have worked with clients from Parole and Probation since MRS. GREGORY HAS A MASTER OF EDUCATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 1990; MASTER OF ARTS IN COUNSELING FROM LIBERY UNIVERSITY IN LYNCHBURG, VA; MASTER OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELING FROM INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN INSITUTE, ALIEF, TX., Master of Domestic Violence, University of Denver. SHE HAS BEEN IN THE COUNSELING FIELD SINCE SHE DID INTERSHIP AT CYPRESS CREEK HOSPITAL, DR. DONALD H. PAQUIN, PAQUIN CLINIC, DR. RICHARD CHRISMAN, CHRISMAN & ASSOCIATES, BURKE AND CALDWELL COUNTIES, FOOTHILLS MENTAL HEALTH, MORGANTON, NORTH CAROLINA. MRS. GREGORY WORKED 5 YEARS FOR EDITH IRBY JONES IN THE WOMEN S UNIT, RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL. She worked for the University of Texas at Houston Recovery Campus for 3 years. She is married to Richard A. Gregory and has 2 sons and twin step daughters and one step son. She has 12 grandchildren and 2 great grand children. Mrs. Gregory is listed in Cambridge Who s Who-Outstanding Addiction Professionals for 2007-Lifetime. License #

4 Introduction See our Web-site for Fees. evagregorycounselingonline.com Harris County Probation # Texas License After your client contacts you about being accused of committing a crime, refer them to GREGORY COUNSELING OF SPRING. GREGORY Counseling of SPRING is an OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY monitored by the Department of State Health Services and Harris County. 4

5 Action Greater coordination between treatment and criminal justice and the use of more comprehensive assessment processes will lead to identification of greater numbers of offenders who need AOD treatment. Clinical research suggests that offenders whose AOD abuse has caused a personal crisis that could move them toward change such as a judge s warning that the offender would otherwise face lengthy incarceration will benefit from AOD treatment before trial. 5

6 EVALUATIONS AVAILABLE PSYCOLOGICAL TESTING SUBJECTIVE WITH THE MCMI SASSI SUBJECTIVE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG EVALUATION, SALCE Substance Abuse Life Circumstances NEEDS SURVEY SUBJECTIVE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG EVALUATION STAXI-2--SUBJECTIVE FOR ANGER INVENTORY JASAE SUBJECTIVE FOR Adolescent SUBSTANCE ABUSE EVALUATION 6

7 OP Fast Track Hours a day or 9 Days. IOP Fast Track 3 Hours a day For 14 days Fast Track for Substance Abuse is more expensive. $65.00 Per 3 Hr. session. TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN SPANISH & ENGLISH Spanish Phone Line: option #2 INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING SUPPORTIVE OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING ANTI-THEFT COUNSELING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNSELING ANGER MANAGEMENT COUNSELING PARENTING EDUCATION DWI-12 HR. & DWI-32 HR. TEXAS DRUG OFFENDER EDUCATION PROGRAM 7

8 Topics of Discussion Value of Outpatient Treatment Certificate Determining Your Client s Need Real Life Steps to New Destiny 8

9 Eliminating issues at pre-trail stage. Judge s duty entails a pro-active role. Even in the presence of a jury, a judge can intervene and ask questions or correct any omissions. Your client s completed Treatment Certificate can gain favor from the court. Prosecutorial action is led by the principle of opportunity. Charges will be brought only where it is felt it is in the public interest to do so, or taking into account the current workload of the bench. 9

10 OUTPATIENT TREATMENT We shoot straight. Either the SALCE, Needs Survey, SASSI, STAXI or MCMI Assessment will be administered to your client. This assessment will reveal the level of treatment that your client will need. Also the length of time can be determined and the personal treatment plan can be developed from this information. 10

11 Real Life A FIGHT FOR YOUR CLIENT S LIFE. A choice between cooperation and freedom, on the one hand, and silence followed by custody and prosecution, on the other, is a common one. Even with the Drug Courts, the clients need for treatment is overlooked. 11

12 What This Means Loss of your client s freedom. Loss of time from your client s job. fights every day for people s lives over drugs and alcohol, Acts of Theft, Parenting, Anger Management. We help people have their jobs and stay out of jail. 12

13 Next Steps Call our Office today. After assessment, your client can choose the Fast Track or the regular program schedule for the needed treatment program. Your client can prepare today for his/her destiny of tomorrow. We have online classes and one day service. 13