Other programs in Dayton will receive funding that is subtracted from Nova House, Walburn said, so the area will not lose services.
Nova House specializes in inpatient and outpatient drug and alcohol addiction treatment besides functioning as a halfway house. It operates its main facility at 732 Beckman St. in southeast Dayton.
MonDay opened in 1978 as a program to “divert probational male felony offenders from the state prison system,” its Web site states. In 1980, MonDay expanded to include females. It serves several separate court jurisdictions in Southwestern Ohio.
Montgomery County Administrative Judge Barbara Gorman said that she’ll closely review the complete state report when it is released. The court has 136 people in the MonDay program now.
Joe Szoke, executive director of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Montgomery County, said he’ll review the report. ADAMHS is funding programs for 42 clients at Nova House. Szoke said he’s satisfied with the quality of the programs there.
Community programs are intended to divert offenders from prison by addressing the underlying psychological or addictive problems that led to their crimes. ODRC has been studying recidivism since 2002 at MonDay and Nova House, among others, Walburn said.
Walburn said Nova House and others were given notice “far in advance” that the state would evaluate them on whether clients re-offended.
“They all were given performance standards to meet,” she said.
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