SOBERING CENTER PROVIDES CARE, ASSISTS LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
The 10-bed Janus Sobering Center in Santa Cruz operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide a caring, nurturing environment where people arrested for public inebriation or cite-and-release driving-under-the-influence cases, can be housed and helped while they sober up. Before discharge they can speak to a referral specialist and be guided to resources in the community based on their needs.
During the first six months after its June 2015 opening, the Sobering Center had 310 client encounters from all areas of Santa Cruz County. From Watsonville to Boulder Creek, men and women, young and old, who were cared for at the center and have had the opportunity to start addressing their issues with substance use disorders. During that time, 16 clients successfully completed treatment stays or engaged with other resources in the community.
The Center assists all local law enforcement agencies by alleviating the burden that this sometimes difficult population can present to them. The officers have a much quicker turnaround time processing admittances in the Sobering Center as opposed to the jail (8 minutes versus 105 minutes), freeing them to attend to greater matters of public safety. So far the Janus Sobering Center has successfully helped divert 24% of public intoxication arrestees away from costly county jail beds.
For more information on the Sobering Center, see the Janus News January 2016 (page 2). http://www.janussc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/January-2016-Newsletter.pdf
The 10-bed Janus Sobering Center in Santa Cruz operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide a caring, nurturing environment where people arrested for public inebriation or cite-and-release driving-under-the-influence cases, can be housed and helped while they sober up. Before discharge they can speak to a referral specialist and be guided to resources in the community based on their needs.
During the first six months after its June 2015 opening, the Sobering Center had 310 client encounters from all areas of Santa Cruz County. From Watsonville to Boulder Creek, men and women, young and old, who were cared for at the center and have had the opportunity to start addressing their issues with substance use disorders. During that time, 16 clients successfully completed treatment stays or engaged with other resources in the community.
The Center assists all local law enforcement agencies by alleviating the burden that this sometimes difficult population can present to them. The officers have a much quicker turnaround time processing admittances in the Sobering Center as opposed to the jail (8 minutes versus 105 minutes), freeing them to attend to greater matters of public safety. So far the Janus Sobering Center has successfully helped divert 24% of public intoxication arrestees away from costly county jail beds.
For more information on the Sobering Center, see the Janus News January 2016 (page 2). http://www.janussc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/January-2016-Newsletter.pdf