Developing a Program for Criminal Justice Involved Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disorders and Co-existing Behavioral Health Disorders: The RTR’s forensic residential treatment program

This paper examines a residential treatment program that was developed in Massachusetts to treat individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and co-existing behavioral health disorders who have been involved in the criminal justice system. The article reviews the population that this program serves, why the program was created, and the integral components that needed to be considered to establish this program.