This self-assessment helps a community supervision agency see where its practice stands against the Recovery Responsive Community Supervision Framework, which operationalizes the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) National Standards for Community Supervision for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions.
The survey should take about 30 minutes and comes in two required parts. Part 1 covers foundation practices. Part 2 covers growth and system work.
Rate against evidence, not aspiration. A rating should be one the agency could support with a policy section, a data report, a file review, or a training record if asked. Answer for the agency as a whole, not only your unit. Where a court or parole board holds the authority, rate what the agency recommends and documents. The framework does not remove the agency's enforcement authority or its public safety and victim safety obligations. Rate recovery responsive practice as it sits alongside those obligations, not in place of them.
Results are emailed to the respondent and used at the aggregate level to describe the field. Individual agency results are not published.
Rating scale used throughout: Not in Place means the practice does not exist, or exists only as an intention. Emerging means partial, pilot, or inconsistent, and dependent on individual champions rather than policy. In Place means established in policy and typical practice, for most staff, most cases, most of the time. Sustained means in policy and practice, monitored with data, survives staff turnover, and has been true for a year or more. N/A means the practice does not apply to this agency.