Choices will be closed for general business:
--Monday AND Tuesday, December 24th and 25th.
--Monday December 31st (except between 9am and 11am for make-up check-ins only) AND Tuesday January 1st.
**If you are a monitoring client scheduled to check in for supervision on the 4th Tuesday of the month (regarding Tuesday December 25th), you are rescheduled to the prior Tuesday, December 18th, at your regular time.
**If you are a monitoring client scheduled to check in for supervision on Wednesday December 26th, but you have updated Choices with your travel schedule and will not be available/in town that day, you can do a "walk-in" check in Monday December 31st, between 9am and 11pm. No appointment is needed.
**If you are a monitoring client scheduled to check in for supervision on the 1st Tuesday of the month (regarding Tuesday January 1st), you are rescheduled to the following Tuesday, January 8th, 2019.
New Lawrence location, as of 9/1/18;
911 Massachusetts, Ste B2A
Go through the glass door left of Chipotle's entrance, use the elevator on the left, press "B"; Choices' office is the first door on the left as you step off the elevator.
Policy change regarding missed monitoring meetings:
Consider your set monthly monitoring meeting date and time seriously.
**Beginning 8/1/18, Choices will not be setting “make-up”/rescheduled monitoring meetings unless the appointment was missed for a documented emergency.
Oversleeping, forgetting, transportation issues, unexpected work hours, or other appointments elsewhere (unless relevant to an emergency) are not acceptable reasons for missing a monitoring meeting.
**Each monitoring client will be allowed two rescheduled meetings over the course of a twelve-month supervision period, with appropriate documentation of emergency reasons.
**This IS retroactive—If you’ve already had two rescheduled meetings, you’ll not be allowed further misses.
**Missed meetings otherwise will be noted as a violation of the terms and conditions of supervision, and will be referred on to the Court of jurisdiction.
CHOICES LEARNED, LATE 2/14/18, THAT MIDWEST JUSTICE HAS CHANGED THEIR CLOSING TIME TO 6:00PM, INSTEAD OF 7:00PM-- WE ARE VERY SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!
PLEASE BE SURE YOU ARE TAKING ALL STEPS NEEDED TO PRESENT TO MIDWEST JUSTICE NO LATER THAN 5:45PM FROM THIS POINT FORWARD.
Lawrence office check-ins are on Thursdays, and by appointment only.
General Monitoring Information:
Once the judge has passed sentencing, the terms for diversion or probation are set; successful compliance with these terms is essential for the individual to move forward.
The defendant placed on diversion or probation is instructed by the Court to present to the monitoring agency within a specific time frame. In a first individual meeting with a diversion/probation supervisor, the client will learn exactly how to successfully satisfy Court mandates.
We realize many individuals struggle in their efforts to fully comply with all terms set forth in their diversion contract or probation terms. While the orders of the judge cannot be altered by the monitoring agency, at Choices we believe if the individual is fully aware of not only the requirements but also of the consequences should they fail to abide by the Court's expectations, they tend to be far more successful and leave their monitoring period behind without difficulty.
Generally, an individual on probation or diversion will be required to submit to monthly check-ins with their monitor, comply with requests for random drug and alcohol urine screening (to document maintained abstinence while under Court supervision), remain free from further negative legal interaction, maintain consistent employment or school attendance, and alert their assigned monitor of changes of address, telephone number and employment. Other specific requests of the Court may also be noted in the individual's diversion agreement or probation orders. At Choices we make a deliberate point to spend time with each monitoring client in order to assure the individual's questions are answered thoroughly and that potential areas of difficulty are addressed as soon as possible in order to ensure successful release from supervision.
We realize many individuals struggle in their efforts to fully comply with all terms set forth in their diversion contract or probation terms. While the orders of the judge cannot be altered by the monitoring agency, at Choices we believe if the individual is fully aware of not only the requirements but also of the consequences should they fail to abide by the Court's expectations, they tend to be far more successful and leave their monitoring period behind without difficulty.
Generally, an individual on probation or diversion will be required to submit to monthly check-ins with their monitor, comply with requests for random drug and alcohol urine screening (to document maintained abstinence while under Court supervision), remain free from further negative legal interaction, maintain consistent employment or school attendance, and alert their assigned monitor of changes of address, telephone number and employment. Other specific requests of the Court may also be noted in the individual's diversion agreement or probation orders. At Choices we make a deliberate point to spend time with each monitoring client in order to assure the individual's questions are answered thoroughly and that potential areas of difficulty are addressed as soon as possible in order to ensure successful release from supervision.
