A 4 hour Online MIP Alcohol Education Class
Our online alcohol/MIP class avoids judgments, put downs and threats of consequences. Our goal is to provide honest and accurate information regarding alcohol consumption without bias. This program was designed by Masters level counselor and a Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor practiioner who have worked with this population for over 30 years. Please be advised, Rethink-a-Drink™ is not intended to be a treatment or intervention program. Rethink-a-Drink™ is an education and alcohol awareness program.
To the Professionals who refer clients to Rethink-a-Drink™
We understand that you have choices when it comes to referring your clients to programs. With that said we are confident that we offer a superior program. If you are currently utilizing another MIP alcohol or underage drinking program we encourage you to take the time to view their program as well as ours and simply compare.
Offender Solutions® prides itself not only on the customer support that we provide for the students that complete our MIP alcohol cours but also to you as the referrer. At any time you can contact Offender Solutions® by phone or email to request a status update on a client or verify authenticity of a Completion Certificate.
As one professional to another we want to assure you that we understand how important it is to make our minor in possession (MIP) Alcohol education class user friendly for you and our MIP students. As we suspect the case is with you, our hope is to help be a part of helping our clients become more productive, less stressed, and problem/crime free citizens. Our online MIP education class is designed to be one small part of the often bigger task you have but can be a key player when it comes to helping the student make significant alcohol choices in their life.
Tracking - With our learning management system we can quickly and easily track and report on a students' performance, progress and alcohol class completion. You can call us to monitor your students' alcohol awareness class enrollment and progress.
Affordable - Our prices are clearly among the lowest in our field. We fully understand the financial barrier many people have and maintain the notion that it is unethical to charge exorbitant fees. Further, if you use ourRethink-a-Drink™ class regularly we can offer your organization ongoing group discount codes or a low annual fee, (just ask.)
Quality - With the Offender Solutions® quality reputation you can rest assured that our online MIP alcohol education class, utilizes best practices, evidence based principles and a cognitive restructuring approach. Further, our underage drinking classes are only developed by experts in their field. Our Rethink-a-Drink™ curriculum was developed through the combined 44 years of experience of a Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor (CADC), parole officer, juvenile probation officer, two college instructors and a juvenile justice system policy analyst. Each of these roles contributed greatly to the style, deliver and content of our online MIP alcohol awareness class.
Rethink-a-Drink™ Referrals
Appropriate referrals to our MIP Alcohol Underage Drinking Class?
Of course you can refer any person you would like to our MIP Alcohol class. However, as a guideline, we suggest you think of Offender Solutions® for youth who are "average", typical or first or second time offenders. As you well know, we are more likely to be successful with youth who do not misuse, abuse or are addicted to alcohol. This is not an evaluation, treatment or intervention program - our MIP alcohol awareness class is an education/ awareness class. We try to make all of our alcohol related materials readable at the 5th grade level.
Making a Rethink-a-Drink referral?
This is a subject we know something about. With our experience in the field of parole and probation we know that making a referral is all too often more work than is necessary. We promise to make it easy.
You can download our Rethink-a-Drink™ class referral form. Simply download the referral form, print, cut and hand it to the offender. 
Easy enough?
Confirming Client Completion
- When the student completes the MIP alcohol class they are issued a Completion Certificate to present to you.
- Feel free to contact Offender Solutions® to confirm the MIP alcohol class completion or status.
- Ask Offender Solutions® to send a Certificate of Completion directly to you, (mail, email or FAX). Our Certificates of Completion are extremely difficult to duplicate. For additional security, if we mal it to you, it is always embossed with our logo.
- Offender Solutions® asks a security question and obtains an answer to validate client identity and, at random times contacts the clients to confirm the security answer.
Evidence Based Research
Implementing Evidence Based Practices
Evidence Based Juvenile Programs
What doesn't work? : Edward Latessa, Ph.D. Center for Criminal Justice Research says, "Most researchers who study correctional interventions have concluded without some form of human intervention or services there is unlikely to be much effect on recidivism from punishment alone." Further, "Not a single reviewer of studies of the effects of official punishment alone (custody, mandatory arrests, increased surveillance, etc.) has found consistent evidence of reduced recidivism."
Using research and evidence based interventions is essential, not only to demonstrate the effectiveness of our programs but also, ethically. Our position is that we have a mission critical responsibility to provide the best, evidence based MIP alcohol education services possible.
What does work?: The research community and virtually all of the relevant journals, overwhelming demonstrate the Offender Solutions® curricula which:
a) uses education and,
b) follows a cognitive restructuring or cognitive behavior modification model, will provide statistically significant change (results).
Simply stated, Offender Solutions® maintains a fundamental belief that all clients must be treated respectfully and are seeking a better life. Our approach is to help them assess their own attitudes, values and beliefs. The research indicates that the Offender Solutions® cognitive model develops an awareness that results in an attitude change and subsequent pro-social beliefs and behaviors. The data also shows that these changes occur across male and female, juvenile and adult and among low, medium and high risk offenders.
Offender Solutions®, as an agency, has a research, criminal justice, education and counseling psychology background. All staff are supervised by a Masters level Counseling Psychologist. We are comprised of staff and consultants from a variety of disciplines including parole, probation, psychology, social work, counseling, corrections, and a research analyst.
24 hour / 7 day a week access
