TASC Programs

Treatment Programs for Alternative Incarceration Serving All of New York


Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI)

In collaboration with the Rensselaer County Jail, TASC offers a jail-based CBI program to detained and sentenced inmates. Two certified co-facilitators deliver the Interactive Journaling "Courage to Change" curriculum twice a week. Using an evidenced-based risk and needs assessment, our focus is to reduce recidivism.


TASC launched the Jail-based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI) program at the Rensselaer County Jail in January 2019. Congratulations to the inmates who completed the Interactive Journaling "Courage to Change" curriculum on September 3, 2019. A special thanks to Jail Programs, Inmate Services and our co-facilitators Erin & Kristin. Cycle 6, here we come!


A CBI "helps participants understand that change is possible and they are responsible for making it happen." -Change Companies

Treatment as an Alternative to Incarceration - Case of a Veteran

The court approved a referral to TASC in the case of a veteran with felony charges, substance use disorder, trauma history and chronic homelessness. In turn, our team incorporated a risk and needs assessment, identified the District of Fiscal Responsibility and worked with the appropriate arm of the Department of Social Services to complete an OASAS level of care review. TASC also worked with a navigator at the Healthy Capital District Initiative to apply the incarcerated veteran with managed Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.


Once the treatment plan was approved by the court, TASC's case management team moved forward with obtaining medical, mental health and substance use records necessary for referrals; worked with Inmate Services to facilitate screenings by appropriate programs; and coordinated release and transport once a treatment bed was available.


Thank you to the team at St. Joseph's Addiction Recovery Center in Saranac Lake for working closely with us on referrals for veterans who are justice-involved and in need of substance use disorder services.

Counselor Shaking Veterans Hand - Troy, NY - TASC of the Capital District, Inc.

Rensselaer County Recovery Court Grads

Congratulations to the participants who graduated felony treatment court in 2020. 


"Drug courts show that when the focus is put on the root of the problem (substance abuse) instead of the result of the problem (illegal activity), remarkable things can happen, and remarkable people can emerge from the fog of their addictions." - Hazeldon Betty Ford Foundation

To discuss treatment programs that we provide and see if you qualify, contact our team at (518) 465-1455 in Troy, New York.

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