Shared Living Arrangements

A Shared Living Arrangement (SLA) is generally required and provided in the SORS program to offer an alternative to incarceration. This treatment component has been proven to assist in providing improved accountability and increased treatment opportunity. This intensified and more structured program offers a needed form of "Milieu Therapy", extending the treatment experience outside the clinical office setting. The SLA combines greater structure, monitoring and treatment, allowing the SORS program to establish a more complete community based supervision and treatment plan. The SLA does not generate any income for the SORS program. Costs associated with the SLA are generally less expensive then living alone and are paid by the client.

It is the position of the SORS program, that in many cases, the use of the SLA is critical to improving our community safety standards. In most cases sexual offenders utilize their secrecy and privacy to engage in their deviant and abusive activities. Even those offenders, who generally offend outside their home, utilize control and secretiveness in their home environment to avoid change.

REPORT ON SAFETY ISSUES RAISED BY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AND LOCATION OF SEX OFFENDERS IN THE COMMUNITY AS PREPARED FOR THE COLORADO STATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES, SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Pursuant to Section 16.11.17-103(4)(j),C.R.S.) Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice Sex Offender Management Board