The WRAPS program was a federally-funded, gender-responsive reentry program specifically designed for women on probation with high-frequency jail stays, and designated as high- to medium-risk on the Women's Risk Needs Assessment (WRNA). Located just outside Portland, Oregon, clients were randomly assigned to either the WRAPS intervention (treatment group) or probation as usual (control group). The supervision of clients assigned to the control group was also gender-responsive in philosophy and application, but did not include access and priority to additional gender- and trauma-responsive services, nor to Community Health Specialists working alongside WRAPS probation officers as navigators for women’s success.

This presentation will discuss the major gender-responsive components of the program, as well as outcome evaluation results using qualitative thematic analysis of client and staff interviews reflecting both the treatment and control groups.