CALL FOR EXPERT SPEAKERS

Leadership Training and Education

We invite you as an expert to consider submitting proposals for education and training presentations at Joyfields Institute sponsored programs year round.  We are seeking expert consultants and speakers to present on various subject matter.

Joyfields Institute produces and delivers evidence based practices education and training. Our programs are targeted to leadership, management and practitioners who work in criminal justice, community corrections, substance abuse intervention and behavioral health at ours or clients' locations.

I hope you find this opportunity appealing. If so please review the following guidelines and then send us your topic(s).  For a sample course description click here.  Please submit your abstract of your presentation topic via email to speakers@joyfields.org using the following format;

1. Title of your topic

2. Target audience

3. Two - three paragraphs describing the topic. 

4. Indicate what problem your presentation helps to resolve outlining the learning objectives for participants in 3 - 4 "take-aways" they should expect to get out of your presentation.

5. Your brief bio no more than 1 page please

6. Indicate length of the presentation -- 60 minutes, 90 minutes, Half day workshop, Full day workshop, etc.

7. Primary Contact Name, Phone and Email Address

8. A head/shoulder photo of the speaker if available.  A photo is not required.

Focus Areas
 Our programs are targeted to leadership, management and practitioners who work in criminal justice, community corrections, substance abuse intervention, mental & behavioral health case management and probation and parole organizations.

Abstracts are welcome although not limited to the following areas;

Reentry Training

  • Fast-Tracked Integrated Reentry Training Package (View details)

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  • Comprehensive Evidence Based Reform and Reentry Models for Prisons and/or Jails & Remand

  • Executive Briefing on Evidence Based Reform and Reentry Models for Prisons and/or Jails & Remand

  • Implementation Plan Writing for Evidence Based Practices

  • Community Coordination

  • Assessment Practice

  • Performance Measurement and Quality Assurance

Motivational Interviewing at all levels including

  • Basic

  • Advanced

  • MI for Group Therapy

  • Training to develop Agency Level Trainers (MINT Trained Trainers - MTT)

  • Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Techniques to Enhance Performance (MIASTEP)

  • Supervision and Feedback to Practitioners Using MI to Increase Skills

Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Interventions & Treatment

  • Cognitive Behavioral Approaches: General

  • Working With Youth:  Planning & Implementing Appropriate Evidence Based Interventions

  • Thinking Matters  Adult Program Facilitators Training

  • Thinking Matters: Youth & Adolescents Program Facilitators Training

  • Thinking for A Change

  • Gang Intervention

  • Forming a Gang Task Force

  • Sex Offender Intervention

  • Violence Offender Intervention

  • Disease/Illness Model of Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders

  • Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

  • Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)

Clinical Skills

  • Trans-Theoretical Model - Stages Of Change

  • Treatment Planning and Stage Matched Interventions

  • Recovery Based Treatment Planning

  • Writing Treatment Goals, Objectives, Interventions in Recovery Based Treatment

  • Strategies for Person Centered Planning

  • Case Management

  • Group Therapy

Miscellaneous

  • Crisis Planning (Proactive and Reactive Crisis Responses)

  •     IDDT

  •     Co-occurring Capable Systems

Administrator, Leadership & Management

  • Staff And Leadership Training And Development
  • The Issue Of Ethics In Leadership
  • Performance Management, Improvement and Quality Assurance
  • Succession Planning
  • Operating Safe, Secure And Orderly Prisons and Jails
  • Administration - Budgets and Business Management, Purchasing, Processes, Inmate Care and Custody, Managing Financials and Fiscal Audits
  • Facilitating Cultural Change
  • Offender Reform and Transition to Community Strategy and Tactics
  • Implementing Evidence-Based Practices
  • Building Effective Community Partnerships
  • Community Coordination and Collaboration for Effective Correctional Reentry System
  • Evidence Based Programs - What Works in Correctional Reform & Re-entry.
  • Effective Assessment Practice
  • Corrections Performance Measurement: Evidence Based Best Practices 
  • Quality Assurance Practice
  • Transition to Community Models
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Developing Strong Components to A Good Reentry System
  • Transitioning Your Organization from Punitive to Correctional: A program for Developing Prison Systems
  • Development and Utilization of Best Practice Curriculum in Criminal Justice Programs
  • Veterans

Manager/Supervisor

  • Collaborative Case Management Skills for Successful Offender Transition to Community
  • Introduction to Contemporary Cognitive Behavior Therapy
  • Working with Narcissistic Individuals in Correctional Settings: Parts I & II
  • Managing Employee Performance: Fundamental Skills for New and Tenured Managers
  • Essential Skills for Making the Transition from Staff to Management
  • Getting Results Through Effective Communication: Skills for Getting and Sustaining Results
  • Performance Management in Frontline Interactions with Judicial Clients
  • How to Motivate Your Staff to Optimize Performance
  • Criminal Conduct And Substance Abuse Intervention: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach For Facilitating Offender Change Through Supervision And Treatment
  • Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Women in Correctional Settings
  • Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents
  • Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: A Primer for Service Providers

Field Officer

  • Client Training for Successful Employment and Reentry
  • How to Motivate your Offender Clients to Achieve Objectives for Successful Re-entry
  • Getting Results Through Effective Communication: Skills for Getting and Sustaining Results

General

  • Sources for Criminal Justice Funding and How to Secure Them
  • Working with Special Populations, Gangs and Tribe
  • Enhancing Quality Assurance Practices
  • Mental Health 101 for Primary Care Providers
  • Managing of Overcrowding
  • Outsourcing For Today's Corrections Leader
  • Transportation
  • Housing
  • Child Support
  • Employment

Send all abstracts to speakers@joyfields.org.