Outpatient Competency Restoration Program
The Outpatient Competency Restoration Program (OCRP) is designed to help individuals charged with a crime, who have been found incompetent to stand trial, to access restoration services within their chosen communities rather than inpatient settings.
The intent of OCRP is to reduce the number of individuals waiting to receive competency restoration services by providing these services in a safe and cost-effective manner in a community of their choice with the most appropriate level of care.
OCRP services include:
- The use of the Breaking Barriers C.O.R.E. competency restoration curriculum
- Individualized assessment of barriers to competency
- Individualized Service Plan to address barriers to competency
- Monitoring barriers to competency
- Standardized psychoeducational and psychosocial services
- Does not have other concerning behavior or factors which indicate the client is not appropriate for outpatient competency restoration services
Clinical appropriateness includes:
- Medical stability
- Does not have current suicidal ideation with intent
- Is not at a heightened risk of harming others
- Does not have psychiatric symptoms at a severity that suggests that the client will not be able to care for their basic needs or health and safety in the community even with clinically appropriate housing and case management services
- Does not have other concerning behavior or factors which indicate the client is not appropriate for outpatient competency restoration services
Conditions of Participation:
- Taking medications or receiving prescribed intramuscular medication, if applicable
- Abstaining from alcohol and unprescribed drugs
- Participating in regular urinalysis or other drug testing for clients who have a current substance use disorder (SUD) diagnosis,
- Engaging in their care and treatment
REFERRAL INFORMATION
Suitability for OCRP is assessed by an assigned Forensic Navigator through a court following the process under RCW 10.77