Joyfields

Evidence Based Re-entry & Re-integration Best Practices

Advanced Skills

December 3-5, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada

WORKSHOPS

Workshop Leader: Dr. Paul Elam, Ph.D., Director & Project Manager, Public Policy Associates - View Bio

Collaborative Case Management: Integrated Approaches to Achieve Effective Community Coordination (Case Management workshop subject to registration counts)

Workshop Leader: Tamela Aikens, Community Coordinator, Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (MPRI) & Executive Director, Detroit Community Justice Partnership -- View Bio

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Implementing Effective Prisoner Assessment Practice

Assessment is the engine that drives effective correctional programs. Successful prison Administrators are preparing prisoners for re-entry back into their communities from the first day they enter prison through the use of systematic screening and assessment practices. During the institutional phase of a prisoner's transition process, policies and procedures should be developed that clearly articulate tasks and responsibilities related to screening, assessment and classification.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

This course will provide you with a practical model on how to systematically measure offender’s risks and needs;

Help guide your decision making
Link prisoners to responsive programs
Improve placement of offenders
Selecting assessment tools and what to look for
Help better utilize resources, and
Provide evidence on the effect of institutional interventions

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Effective Evidence Based Programs for Your Re-entry Initiatives

Policymakers and corrections professionals have come to realize the importance of evidence supported programs for correctional reform and re-entry. They recognize the urgent need to reverse the current no-win direction and are working to uncover and implement programs with the greatest likelihood of success based on evidence.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

This workshop will help you establish your criteria, what programs will help you reach your goals and how to select them. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn;

Participants at the end of the program will know what are essential elements of an effective program and which "evidence-based programs" exist to help them succeed in their re-entry efforts

The one day course will help you establish your criteria, what programs will help you reach this goal and how to select them.

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Performance Measurement for Evidence Based Reentry Programs

Is your program on track and being implemented as intended? Are there problems with the program or its implementation that require modification?

Is program "X" recruiting the expected number of inmates? Are your staff adequately trained in new procedures?

To implement and sustain a successful re-entry strategy, officials need accurate and timely information about offender transition for several reasons;

To identify problems and needed changes
To design and implement reforms
Manage delivery of supervision and services to individual offenders under those reforms
Make more informed decisions about improving reforms

In addition, the course will teach participants other uses for performance measurement, including

Using objective performance measures to break down staff resistance to change
Using PM as a more fair way to assess staff accomplishments
Use PM to give staff a tangible sense of achievement
Motivating staff by presenting clear and attainable objectives

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Collaborative Case Management: Integrated Approaches to Achieve Effective Community Coordination

Strong and sustained local capacity is the single most critical aspect for success with re-entry initiatives. Local efforts at education, training, planning, and implementation need significant guidance and support in order to build the capacity for system reform. How should your case management staff roles and functions adapt to account for offenders re-entering the community? What is your "go-to-market" plan?

It is vital to leverage community resources available to you in your re-entry efforts, cutting costs and reducing recidivism. To do this effectively, we must have a very good understanding of how to convene and organize our communities, elicit buy-in and investment, plan for sustainability, and ensure quality results throughout the transition implementations process.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

The three-day course also will address specific components essential for community and partner collaboration. Participants will learn key components for successfully getting communities to collaborate, including;

Community coordinators - roles and responsibilities
Case Management and the paradigm shift to maximize success
Workforce Development
Building capacity among stakeholders
Community-Based Comprehensive Prisoner Re-entry Plans
Community Assets, Policy Barriers, and Gaps in Services

(** Participants in Advanced Skills Workshops must have EBP re-entry Core Skills or equivalent EBP re-entry experience)

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Collaborative Case Management and Integrated Approaches to Achieve Effective Community Reentry Coordination

Building community capacity to support offender re-integration is a key element in long-term reentry and systems change planning. Collaboration among multiple stakeholders is inextricably linked to the success of reentry initiatives.

While parole officers are the principal decision makers concerning an offender’s community supervision, the collaborative case management framework emphasizes the establishment of meaningful collaborative partnerships to maximize offender success.

Do you know what set of actions are necessary to assist your agency in adopting a framework necessary to ensure its reentry efforts are appropriately aligned at multi-disciplinary levels? How will you guide your reentry implementation planning process to foster a proactive, collaborative, community-based approach to reducing crime and recidivism?

During this course, we will explore the answers to these questions, and more including, how you can best marshal your resources to ensure efficient cross-system collaborations.

For reentry policies to yield results, they must be fully integrated with effective community coordination strategies that involve governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. The past decade has been enlightened by research establishing the correlation between crime reduction, and strong social supports and community involvement. In order for increased capacity to be relevant, efforts must first start with building community partnerships.

This course will also examine best practice approaches to building community capacity essential to support prisoner reentry.

You will learn how to maximize your resources through the formation of meaningful collaborative partnerships, and improve your awareness and understanding.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

· Collaborative Case Management

The emerging transformation throughout corrections agencies to shift toward collaborative case management implementation

How to unveil the new criminal justice paradox (navigating the return to social services and corrections’ collaborations)

Best Practices: Developing policies and practices that maximize collaborative case planning for former prisoners

Understanding and managing the ‘forces of resistance’; leading change through organizational development

Community Reentry Coordinators - Qualifications and Competencies

Core areas of knowledge and skills required by community reentry coordinators (ex: knowledge of resources, experience in leading change, effective consensus builder)

How to hone collaborative-style leadership

· Building Community Capacity to Support Reentry

Examine evidence-based practices of community partnerships resulting in increased capacity (on both macro and micro levels)

Illustrations/Case Studies: Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO); Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA)
Effective strategies to pool the community’s collective power, influence and resources, to bring together the necessary social capital needed for communities to address prisoner reentry

· Community-Led Comprehensive Prisoner Re-entry Plans

Basic steps of strategic planning
Planning vs. Visioning
Best Practices: Conducting Reentry Services Inventories, Asset Mapping, Sustainability, Leveraging new or additional resources

Measurement, Evaluation, Feedback: How to ensure your efforts are achieving results
Ensuring stakeholder buy-in and full engagement of critical partners

· Integrated approaches to address re-integration needs
While there are a myriad of Tier-1post-release needs that require examination and focus, this course will also include a section on workforce development and effective reentry approaches to improved employment success for former prisoners, including:

Developing and implementing new ideas to address barriers to employment

Examining implications and approaches to implementing employment readiness programs and job placement programs during incarceration and post-release

Best Practices

Ready4Work

Transitional jobs programs

(** Participants in Advanced Skills Workshops must have EBP re-entry Core Skills or equivalent EBP re-entry experience)

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