Programs
Enabling offenders to stay out of jail, keep their employment, and maintain productive relationships with their communities.
Electronic Home Monitoring (EHM)
Electronic Home Monitoring is a cost-effective alternative to jail. Participants must remain in their residence unless pre-approved to attend school, employment, medical, legal appointments or other conditions set by the Courts. Friendship staff do not have the discretion to approve any leave outside of your court order.
To ensure safety and minimize community risk, assigned case managers closely monitor for cooperation and compliance with court ordered conditions of supervision.
We use state-of-the-art GPS electronic monitoring for real-time location monitoring of defendants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pre-determined exclusion or inclusion zones are set. If violated, an alert is sent to the EM case manager immediately. Violations are filed with the Courts and may result in revocation of your EHM agreement, and a warrant may be put out for your arrest.
Diversion Programs
Diversion programs offer alternatives to traditional court processes for adults facing criminal offenses or behavioral health crisis, focusing on rehabilitation through community service, counseling, treatment, and restitution, with successful completion often leading to dismissed or reduced charges. Failure to complete the program can result in further prosecution.
The goal of diversion is to address underlying issues such as addiction, mental health, and domestic violence. Common conditions for the diversion program include counseling, treatment (anger management, mental health, substance use disorder, domestic violence, etc) and community service.
The benefits of completing your diversion program are to avoid jail, reduced recidivism and dismiss or reduce criminal charges from your record.
ADIS Education (Spanish (Espanol) available)
The ADIS class is typically an 8-hour educational program designed to help individuals understand the consequences of substance use, improve decision- making and change high-risk behavior related to alcohol and drugs, often as a requirement for court-ordered offenses like DUI. It covers the physical/mental effects of substance use, legal ramifications, addiction, traffic safety, and helps develop personal action plans for healthier choices.
Covers physical/mental effects, legal ramifications, and traffic safety. Spanish classes available in select locations.
Alcohol Monitoring
Alcohol Monitoring, an ankle bracelet provides 24/7 transdermal alcohol monitoring by checking body gasses for alcohol consumption detecting drinking, tampering, eliminates environmental alcohol, and it will not report use over shaving lotion, offering courts a reliable, continuous, and court-validated tool for monitoring sobriety.
Reliable, continuous, and court-validated tool for monitoring sobriety.
Portable Remote Breath Devices
The compact and durable Remote Breath device provides versatile breath alcohol monitoring with options for random, on-demand and client-initiated testing for low-risk clients or those who have earned less intensive testing and monitoring. Enhanced facial guidance and verification software decreases manual photo review by over 90%.
Ideal for low-risk clients. Random, on-demand and client-initiated testing options available.
Supervised UA’s
Friendship offers random or scheduled observed urinalysis collection. All presumptive positive collections are sent out and tested by a certified toxicology lab. Uses strict protocol and proper chain-of-custody practices.
Uses strict protocol and proper chain-of-custody practices for all urine collection and toxicology testing.
