Sustaining the EBDM Model: The Indiana Story

By  Madeline M. Carter

In a new report titled Sustaining the EBDM Model: The Indiana Story, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) reveals how, as part of a multi-phase pilot study, Grant County, Indiana, realized numerous breakthroughs in community supervision, data collection, and pretrial services by applying EBDM. Steering the county was a policy team comprising local stakeholders who worked closely with NIC to develop a set of realistic, attainable goals. They included:

• Restructuring caseloads to optimize supervision for people at the highest risk to reoffend

• Revising the probation violations process to expand alternatives to revocation

• Enhancing data collection
  
  Based on those goals, Grant County was able to attain the following wins:

• 42% decrease in people on probation being convicted of a misdemeanor

• 26% reduction in people on probation being convicted of a felony

• 19% reduction in new referrals to supervision, leaving more time to implement behavioral interventions with people at the highest risk to reoffend

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections, 2022. 41p.