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:
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