Meet the Community
Model developers and founders of the Center for Therapeutic Justice
Penny
B. Patton, Ed. S., LPC, LMFT, CCFC
V. Morgan Moss, Jr., Ed. S., LPC, LMFT, CCFC, NCC
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Licensed professional counselors, licensed
marriage and family therapists, clinically certified forensics counselors,
and educational specialists, Penny and Morgan as Co-Directors, founded
the Center for Therapeutic Justice (CFTJ) in 1999. They develop
and supervise Community Model programs in institutions, in drug
courts, and at probation agencies and are considered the national
authorities on social model programs in correctional settings.
CFTJ
is the sole source for Community Model in Corrections ®
approach. With decades of experience in addictions and the Criminal
Justice System (CJS); treating the CJS with a systems approach,
they have developed addictions, anger management, and stop the violence
program materials and provided groups, briefings, workshops, and
conferences for correctional officers, law enforcement, drug courts,
probation/parole officers, substance abuse counselors, lawyers and
judges, incarcerated men and women, families of those serving time,
victims, and community agencies. Earlier, Morgan was the clinical
director at Williamsburg Place, a treatment center for both the
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Morgan
Moss and Penny Patton
taken after Community
Model in Corrections ®
documentary filming - November 2008
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Penny was
the family therapist at Williamsburg Place and developed an intensive
3 day program for families. Penny directed the “Inner Reflections
for Women” intensive addictions program in the Newport News,
Virginia city jail and then became the coordinator of “Project
Link”, a program for addicted mothers. As clinical supervisor
of mental health and substance abuse services at a regional jail
in Virginia, Morgan founded and directed the RISE (Recovery In a
Secure Environment) program with Penny as the Program Consultant.
Per capita RISE was among the largest jail substance abuse programs
in the country with 252 inmates in eight programs. |
CFTJ work in corrections was featured
in the Summer 2005 INSIGHTS from Open, Inc., a provider of addictions
and reentry program materials, in a 2003 CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE
REPORT, and in a 2006 CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY report on the CJS.
CFTJ has been featured and referenced in numerous books. Additionally,
CFTJ sponsors and coordinates national retreats and summits that
bring leaders, thinkers, ex-offenders, and authors together to
co-create community solutions in the CJS. The goal of CFTJ is
to change the culture of incarceration and reentry in America.
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For several years,
Morgan and Penny hosted “Recovery Radio” out of Richmond,
Virginia – a talk show with prominent national guests discussing
addictions and the criminal justice system and continue to be
regular guests on local and national talk shows while advocating
the Community Model in Corrections ®
approach with national, state, and local policymakers and citizens.
They have authored two cover stories in AMERICAN JAILS magazine
and wrote an extensive book review about the war on drugs for
the same magazine in late 2006.
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Morgan
and Penny promote correctional addictions programming with an emphasis
on self-help, mutual and social model recovery. Excellent and supportive
research on social model recovery outside of the CJS exists and
has been well documented. Research is underway on CFTJ Community
Model in Corrections ®, and data
is being analyzed along with much observational and anecdotal information
that has been gathered through various and numerous sources. Independently
the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services has begun the
process of a longitudinal study of recidivism for those completing
a CM program. In its third year, this study has shown excellent
outcomes with a substantial reduction in recidivism among those
who have successfully completed the program.
CFTJ © 2009 |
..........Serving
the National Correctional Community |
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