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"I think it is very useful. My student was fully engaged in the workbook and I feel that he learned a lot. The real-life situations are what I thought were the most helpful. Students need to know that other people have the same problems as them."

Female, age 37, ACCI Coach, New Directions Anger Management
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MOHAVE COUNTY ADULT AND JUVENILE PROBATION: Kingman, AZ.  Contact Bridget Long, supervisor. (928-753-0741).  Mohave County has referred adult and juvenile offenders since October of 2006. To date they have referred over 1,000 offenders to the home study program. The juveniles have been referred to the youth/parent program and the adults to anger management, substance abuse, offender corrections, and parenting. Offenders are required to complete the workbooks as part of their probation.

ARIZONA STATE PAROLE: Armando Gonzalez, supervisor. (928-214-3465).  Arizona Parole has seven offices throughout the state. The parole officers started referring their parolees to the home study program in February 2009. As of February 2010, 970 parolees have been referred with only a 16% becoming noncompliant. Parole officers have been using a variety of ACCI's home study workbooks to meet the various needs of their parolees. The two most commonly used are Substance Abuse and Anger Management.

BASTROP  COUNTY  CSCD: Bastrop.TX.  Contact Barbara Coy, supervisor (512-581-4201). Bastrop County has been referring their clients since 1985. To date over 6,800 offenders have graduated. Currently CSCD refers both misdemeanors and felons to the home study program. Three other counties under their jurisdiction also refer offenders. As with other probation departments, they refer their clients to a variety of Home Study Workbooks as ordered by the court or deemed appropriate by probation officers.

BELL COUNTY CSCD: Temple / Ft. Hood, TX.  Contact Alice Wilkins, life skills coordinator. (254-933-5901). Bell County has been using ACCI's Offender Corrections Level II group workbooks since 1990 with over 7,400 graduates. Bell County uses their own local instructors to facilitate the group classes. Instructors have been certified by ACCI as life skills facilitators. ACCI designed the Offender Corrections cognitive life skills workbooks as one workbook for all offenders eliminating requiring multiple classes for multiple offenders.

SAN MARCOS JUSTICE COURT: Chandler, TX.  Contact Judge Keith Frankel, presiding.(480-963-6691). Judge Frankel uses both the Home Study Programs and Cognitive Awareness level 1 group program. The group program is funded through judicial grants, is free to offenders and is held for one day on Saturdays. The purpose of this program is to deal with noncompliant offenders and others who have failed their court-ordered responsibilities. This is another example of the many ways to use ACCI  workbooks.

OTHERS: There are numerous agencies throughout the United States and overseas currently using  ACCI workbooks. ACCI has thousands of hits on its website every month with orders for workbooks from a wide variety of agencies. For example, the anger management workbook is being used by the native Lunit Eskimos in remote villages in Alaska. Also the Singapore prison is using ACCI  workbooks with great success.