The Booter AfterCare Program is located in the West Campus of the Great Falls Pre-Release Center and was founded in response to the Department of Corrections request for a specialized, short-term residency program with emphasis on treatment, to include advanced living skills, cognitive restructuring, substance relapse prevention, and community reintegration. The first Six Booters were received in October 1993 and since that time more than 1,200 Booters have reported for AfterCare services. AfterCare remains one of the nation’s few boot camp aftercare programs of a residential nature and is proud to be on the cutting edge of correctional ideology.
While at AfterCare, Booters maintain productive weeks consisting of a minimum of five productive days with assignment to either spot jobs (paid employment) or community service. Each Booter must provide a minimum of ten hours per week towards the community service requirement and an additional ten hours of physical training to help maintain physical conditioning and health status achieved while at TSCTC.
Much has been learned in the fifteen years since the original Alpha Squad formed and reported aboard. The TSCTC program itself has shifted focus from a highly regimented para-military model to an extremely strict therapeutic community model using an educational treatment approach. The physical aspect and requirements have been relaxed over the years, first in response to attracting older offenders, then females, and most lately in response to liability issues of a medical nature. Some offenders will respond better to the military model and others to education. TSCTC has endeavored to meet majority needs - right smack in the middle. Through each revision and evolution the AfterCare component has adapted to each and every change to strengthen its partnership with TSCTC.
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