Staff and Offender Contact Info

Sufficient staff and offender information is one key component of a case plan. Staff information includes office location, phone numbers, and any other pertinent contact information. Offender information includes offender identification numbers, addresses, aliases, etc. All of these identifiers are important. For staff, more offender information makes it easier to find offenders and potential collateral contacts.

Assessment Information

Assessments are an invaluable piece of the supervision puzzle. Recent research has shown that in many cases, assessments are administered correctly but the information obtained is not properly applied to supervision plans. These assessments are useless unless the results are incorporated into case plans and applied to the supervision of offenders. Assessment tools should identify offenders' criminogenic needs. Even if the agency does not use an assessment tool, case plans must incorporate assessment information to identify and prioritize areas of the offenders' lives that need to be addressed.