Title: Self Advocacy for Conditional Release Program (CONREP) | Disability Rights California
Headings: Self Advocacy for Conditional Release Program (CONREP)
Self Advocacy for Conditional Release Program (CONREP)
Self-Advocacy for CONREP
1. What is CONREP?
2. How Do I Get into CONREP?
(1) Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) Commitments
(2) Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGI) Commitments
Submitting Your Own Petition for Restoration of Sanity
What happens at my CONREP placement hearing?
(3) Mentally Disordered Offender (MDO) Commitments
CONREP as Condition of Parole
CONREP Following an Extension Hearing
(4) Mentally Disordered Sex Offender (MDSO) Commitments
(5) Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Commitments
3. How Does the Court Decide If I Should Be Placed on CONREP?
4. What Does CONREP Look for in Their Evaluations?
(1) Your recent behavior:
(2) Psychiatric medications:
(3) Your mental illness:
(4) Treatment progress:
(5) Social factors:
(6) Have you been in CONREP before? How did it go?
(7) Are you motivated and willing to participate in CONREP, and would you benefit from CONREP?
(8) The crime that put you in the hospital:
(9) How are your hygiene and grooming?
(10) How well have you cooperated during the CONREP interview?
(11) Do understand the terms and conditions of CONREP?
(12) Do you agree with CONREP’s terms and conditions?
(13) Do you have a wellness and recovery plan (WRAP) for community living?
(14) Should you be restricted from living near the victim or the victim’s family?
(15) What might CONREP ask me, my treatment team, clinical staff, my family, friends, victims, or the victims’ families?
5. What happens if I am approved for CONREP?
6. If the court denies me CONREP, can I appeal that decision?
7. What happens if the court releases me onto CONREP?
8. How long can I be kept on CONREP?
9. What kind of terms and conditions can be imposed on me by CONREP?
10. Can I challenge my conditions?
11. What is the process for review of my outpatient status?
12. Does time in CONREP count toward my maximum term of commitment?
13. Can I transfer to a different CONREP program?
14. How do I file a grievance against CONREP?
Level I Review
Level II Review
Level III Review
Level IV Review
15. How do I get off CONREP?
16. Can CONREP send me back to the state hospital?
17. What is the procedure for a revocation hearing?
18. What happens if my outpatient status is revoked?
19. Can I be put in the hospital or jail without a court hearing?
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Content: A County’s CONREP program can be administered by the county or by a private or non-profit agency. 2. How Do I Get into CONREP? Most people enter CONREP on the recommendation from the director of their state hospital or treatment facility. The director will only do this if they believe you are no longer dangerous due to your mental illness. After making a recommendation to the court, the court will then hold a hearing and decide whether to place you on outpatient status. Any person committed to DSH on a forensic commitment may become eligible for CONREP, but how and when a person becomes eligible depends on their original criminal charges and the person’s commitment status. You may be eligible for CONREP from the first day of your commitment if you have been committed in relation to a misdemeanor or a felony that does not involve death, great bodily injury, or any act that involved a serious threat of bodily harm to another person. Penal Code § 1601 (b). Otherwise, you are not eligible until you have spent at least 180 days confined to a treatment facility, unless the court finds a placement, including CONREP, which would provide you with more appropriate mental health treatment while not posing a danger to the health or safety of others.