Offender Rehabilitation Division

Betsy Biben
Chief of the
Offender Rehabilitation Division
Email: BBiben@pdsdc.org

The Offender Rehabilitation Division (ORD) is composed of program developers (sentencing specialists) who work with indigent clients who present a broad range of emotional, social, psychiatric, and substance abuse related problems. Program developers provide attorneys with psychosocial assessments of these clients while developing individualized treatment plans and sentencing recommendations.

Program developers are skilled and experienced master level and licensed social workers or professional counselors who address DC Superior Court judges at sentencing and provide appropriate recommendations including viable alternatives to incarceration such as community-based rehabilitative treatment. The program developers also prepare Community Youth Act Studies and reports for US Parole Commission revocation hearings.

ORD staff produce a comprehensive annual Directory of Resources for Adults and a biennial Directory of Youth Resources that list a wide range of services available to those in the criminal justice system. The staff is available to consult with judges, panel attorneys, and others in the criminal justice system.

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