Court-Based Diversion (Lancaster County, NE)

Lancaster County Department of Community Corrections

At A Glance

 Jurisdiction: Lancaster County, Nebraska 

Program Intercept Point: Court-based diversion  

Population Served: Adults with behavioral health needs 

Program Summary

The Lancaster County Department of Community Corrections offers 5 court-based diversion programs: treatment diversion, intensive supervision diversion, mental health diversion, veterans’ diversion, and general diversion programming.

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Program Highlights

  • Provides multi-track diversion programming to better address behavioral health needs and to improve each program participant’s likelihood of success.   
  • Using this approach allows Community Corrections to target individualized needs of program participants and the flexibility of providing varying levels of services.   
  • Programs available: 
    • General Diversion  
    • Intensive Supervision Diversion  
    • Treatment Diversion  
    • Mental Health Diversion – Specialty Track 
    • Veteran’s Diversion – Specialty Track 
    • Adult Drug Court (Post Plea)  
  • Uses the following evidence-based programming to provide targeted services to participants

Website: Lancaster County Department of Corrections 

Contact

Landon Parks 
Lancaster County Adult Drug Court Coordinator  
Assistant Director, Lancaster County Community Corrections  
(402) 441-8122 (Office)  
(402) 416-6550 (Mobile)  
lparks@lancaster.ne.gov