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Incarcerationof Los Angeles and Orange County 
Program Description Community Integrated Behavior Management
Training ProgramArc Mid-Cities’ Community Integrated Behavior Management Training Program is designed to benefit citizens with developmental disabilities. Clients are referred to the community-based program by Regional Centers in Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles Counties. Arc Mid-Cities is a non-profit affiliate of The National Association for Retarded Citizens. Through this program, the focus is on preparing persons for entry into competitive employment and independent living. With proper training and support, participants may later advance to a less structured community environment such as supportive employment and/or individual placement. Participants are encouraged to acquire the necessary skills training aimed at reinforcing proper work behavior and attitudes, good attendance, as well as improved speed, accuracy, and performance.
A History of Helping Arc Mid-Cities boasts a fifty (50)-year history of helping people to become productive members within the community. In addition, there continues to be a strong commitment to “offenders” who are mandated to attend day programs/work-training programs.
 Judicial Advocates
Arc Mid-Cities has served as a judicial advocate for developmentally disabled offenders for many years. The Alternatives to Incarceration Training Program is recognized as a primary diversion program for this population in the following Municipal and Superior courts.  Compton
Fullerton Long Beach
Alternatives to Incarceration offers employment opportunities, which afford individuals with special needs a chance to become skilled and productive as well as a means of possibly becoming self-sufficient. The program is staffed by trained professionals who are sensitive to the needs of this population.
Admission Criteria Consumers for this program must:
 Be diagnosed with mental retardation Be independent in self-care skills Have the ability to monitor their own medication Follow instructions and role modeling Agree to follow rules, regulations, and grievance procedures Not exhibit excessive self-abusive or aggressive behavior
while in the program Consent to complete a thirty (30)–day initial
evaluation/assessment period Have been judicially involved or at risk of
being judicially involved
Transportation Services
Arc Mid-Cities is vendored by the Regional Center to provide transportation services to consumers who travel throughout Orange, Los Angeles, and Riverside Counties. Currently, a fleet of over seventy (70) vehicles is in operation daily transporting over four-hundred (400) consumers. With exception of the Orange County Office, drivers are trained Class B license holders certified by DMV and have taken courses in both First Aid and CPR administered by the American Red Cross.
Job coaches drive either their own vehicles or Arc Mid-Cities vehicles. Transportation services are provided from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. for pick-up, and from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for drop-off, Monday through Friday. Arc Mid-Cities is certified by the Los Angeles Board of Transportation, the California Highway Patrol, and the South Central Los Angeles Regional Center.
Referrals
Referred persons must be judicially involved and/or considered high risk for judicial involvement. Particular attention is given to alleged and/or convicted sex offenders. Appropriate referrals should be made by the Municipal/Superior Court, Regional Centers, Department of Rehabilitation or other Federal, State or County sponsoring agencies. Self-referrals are also given consideration.  Belmont Shores, Long Beach
 Cal State University, Fullerton
 Cal State University, Los Angeles
 Dynamic Details, Inc., Anaheim  El Dorado Park
Firmenich Company, Anaheim  J.C. Penney, Downey  J.C. Penney, Whittier J.C. Penney, Mall of Orange  Long Beach Community College
 Sears, Carson  Sears, Cerritos  Sears, Costa Mesa Sears, Laguna Hills  Sears, Montebello  Sears, Pasadena  Sears, Torrance  Sears, Whittier Sears, Westminster  Shoreline Beach, Long Beach  Shoreline Village, Long Beach  Southwest College  The City of Long Beach Courts California University, Riverside
Work Skills
 Grounds keeping Building Maintenance Gardening/Landscaping Warehousing Merchandising Shipping and Receiving Circuit Board Assembly Clark v. California The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act does apply to prisons. As a result, the California Department of Corrections settled Clark v. California, a class action lawsuit on behalf of all prison inmates with mental retardation. The CDC is modifying procedures to identify inmates with developmental disabilities and provide them with safer housing and greater access to programs. Since litigation concerning California’s parole practices is ongoing, inmates with mental retardation and/or other developmental disabilities are entitled to more responsive, higher quality care. We, at Arc Mid-Cities, present our Alternatives to Incarceration Program as a means of providing services for developmentally disabled offenders. This is a component of Community Integrated Behavior Management Training Program. This program has been recognized by several judges as a legitimate diversion program, capable of addressing the specific needs of the targeted population. |
