5TH ANNUAL SPRING "COMMUNITY REENTRY" WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCE

Evidence-based Programs & Supports for Effective Transitions to Community

April 25 - 27, 2012

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


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RE-ENTRY IS IN FOCUS- MAKE IT HAPPEN!
  • Pre-Conference Workshop: April 25, 2012
  • Conference: April 26 - 27, 2012

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP DAY

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Strategies and Tactics for Evidence-based Community Reentry & Reintegration
Dr. Paul Elam, Project Director, Public Policy Associates, Inc.

This comprehensive full-day workshop provides expert training on evidence-based practices for transitioning citizens to the community. It identifies key steps that must be taken into account in the reentry process. One might as well be doing nothing if these key components are omitted!

Based on the Transition from Prison to Community (TPC) and Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) models, the course lays the initial foundation for establishing an effective reentry framework and provides a thorough overview of a three phase process associated with producing improved outcomes related to public safety. It also includes dedicated sessions on working with special populations, which often pose additional challenges due to federal and state policy barriers.

Over the course of the day, the workshop will provide core strategies and tactics for effective offender transition to community.  It will equip you and your team with an understanding of how to effectively reduce recidivism and associated costs.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes

The end goal is successful transition of clients to the community with the ultimate aim to enhance public safety and reduce future victimization through recidivism reduction.  Participants will learn key concepts based on Evidence-based Transition to Community models. They will also learn effective implementation methodology adaptable to local needs.  The program also helps participants address issues related to “Reentry indicators”—employment, education, reduced drug use and access to services.  This workshop is in 3 modules:

Module-1
  • Reentry Overview of Current and Emerging Trends
  • Established Standards for State- & County-wide Reform and Training
  • Introduction to Evidence-based Reentry Models
  • Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) and Transition from Prison to Community (TPC) Model
  • Jail Reentry Initiative (JRI) and Transition from Jail to Community (TJC)
  • Services Inside & Outside
  • Developing a System of Reentry
  • The Implementation roadmap
Module-2
  • Developing a System of Reentry
  • The Implementation roadmap
  • Leadership & Organizational Change
  • Implementing Risk and Needs Assessments
  • Working with Special Populations - Veterans, Youth, Geriatrics, Women & Sex offenders
  • Transition Planning and Use of Graduated Sanctions and Services
  • Developing Responsive Institutional and Community-based Programming
  • Critical transition and reentry principles
  • Critical transition and reentry elements

CONFERENCE DAY-1

Thursday, April 26, 2012

World Class Reentry Programs: Building Agencies To Be Reckoned With
Sobem Nwoko, President, Joyfields Institute

Our human services field has gone through significant change over the past decade -- good and bad.  This calls on leadership for innovative responses to sustain their organizations and programs.   Unfortunately many operate as if they are immune from competitors. A suicidal attitude under any scenario let alone current economic circumstances when employees and clients need leadership to step up.  The reality is competitors are out there - some visible and others not so visible.  Human services agency leaders and managers have an even greater responsibility to do all we can to remain viable and sustain operations -- because people depend on us, including employees, their families and clients in our care.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes
In this session, we discuss business trends and challenges agencies face, opportunities they present for leadership and what we may consider doing about them.

In this presentation, Mr. Nwoko will review why this is the best time than ever before for agencies to capitalize on the opportunities literally in front of them, refine services they provide and grow revenues while becoming more relevant to the communities they serve.

Evidence-based Programming - What Works and Considerations For Your Agency
Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting

Many worthy and not so worthy programs are tagged as Evidence Based (EBP) or in some cases characterized as Promising.  Add to that the notion of Practice Based Evidence (PBE) programs that use strength-based approaches and it becomes clear why well intended initiatives confidently march down misguided paths!

So how do you head down a path that produces intended outcomes?  Which programs are for real and have empirical evidence to back their claims?  Of these programs, which would best meet the organization's needs, select and integrate with current practices in place -- and all without "re-inventing the wheel"?  This is the challenge many will grapple with.

What We Will Cover
Join us in Las Vegas with Mark Lowis, MSW, LMSW, MINT to gain an understanding of program options you have, modalities they best suit and how you make that determination which way to go.  We will also review how they fit with one another where several programs must co-exist.  Programs we will review among others include;

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CB Approaches - Moral Reconation Therapy, Models for Change, Thinking for A Change, etc
Motivational Interviewing
Person Centered Treatments
Alternatives to Incarceration
Blueprints Programs
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
IDDT, etc

Collaboration, Community Partnerships and Dynamics of Implementing Real World Programs
Robert Vander Kamp, Inmate Programs Manager, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department

It is one matter to learn evidence-based practices, it's yet another to take these concepts and implement them.  Simply knowing what programs to establish does not ensure implementation success as you need an approach that works and accounts for all who must be engaged to become stakeholders in the process!  This presentation will cover the practical applications of what you will learn throughout this conference.

Strong coordinated 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 clients re-entering the community?  What is your "go-to-market" plan?

Robert Vander Kamp is a long time student of evidence-based programs and practices and has been implementing them under various circumstances.  With limited resources and fiscal challenges, you will learn how to leverage collaborative services to fight these barriers.

What we will cover
In this program, Robert Vander Kamp will present a case study of lessons learned in taking evidence-based practices and follow the development and implementation of a collaborative re-entry program in San Diego County.  We will examine San Diego County's response to California's fiscal challenges and the consequences of the State's realignment of its criminal justice system.

We will look at necessary collaborative assistive relationships, how you form them, and the benefits that flow out of good effective partnerships.

Program Alternatives to Sentencing & Incarceration - Veteran Treatment Courts Program, Parolee Re-entry Courts & Community Supervision
Robert Vander Kamp, Inmate Programs Manager, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department

Some states and the federal government have created resources that are intended for certain military veterans who are defendants in criminal cases.

This presentation will examine the practical application of evidence based practices in the development ofreentryinfocus24_mil.jpg alternatives to life impacting judicial decisions.  It pays special attention to the Veteran Treatment Courts Program and the Parolee Reentry Courts, two programs currently rolling out accross the country.  Attention is give to the real experiences of county governments as they work to adapt, fund and collaborate with others to implement evidence-based reentry practices around them.  

These programs are evidence-based responses to the overcrowding challenges states are facing and the requirements to immediately comply with what laws of the land mandate.

What we will cover
The development and implementation of a Re-entry Court Program is examined.  Issues related to adoption of evidence-based practices are also examined with the aims of;

  • Reducing parolee recidivism

  • Reducing revocation of parole

  • Utilizating of evidence-based rehabilitative programming, and

  • Collecting relevant data regarding participant progress and overall program success

The process, collaborative challenges and solutions to their implementation at a county leading the effort in this area is examined.  

CONFERENCE DAY-2

Friday, April 27, 2012

Workforce Development: Current & Future Trends For Getting Clients Gainfully Employed
Sobem Nwoko, President, Joyfields Institute

In the current economic climate getting anyone gainfully employed is an uphill challenge under any circumstance.  This calls traditional methods as well as new non-traditional approaches. 

This program examines current and future trends in getting clients effectively employed.  Mr. Nwoko takes a look at what others are doing that is yielding good results.  Participants will leave the workshop with a bag full of methods they can apply in their work with thei clients, knowing what others do that works and how they can improve their programs to achieve better results.

Community Supervision: Evidence-based Practices for Probation & Parole Staffs
Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting

The program examines the way in which case-management has been a natural part of probation, parole and other services supervising clients at various stages of transitioning back into community.

It takes a look at the way in which offender clients requirements, community corrections, and jail diversion programs have created the need to increase the focus on case-management to the level of formal practice within probation and parole.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes

In this webinar, the use of various evidence-based practices and strength–centered approaches as applied in case management supports and services to improve outcomes in probation and parole will be discussed.

Practices reviewed have been proven to lower obsconder rates, improve commitment levels to programs and reduce reoffending rates. In addition it has reduced employee stress and fatigue associated with caseloads and results below expectations.  Participants will learn evidence-based and strength-centered approaches that yield results far and above the norm.

Developing Your Implementation Action Plan
Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting

A highlight of Joyfields Institute programs is you depart with a draft action plan they can put into action upon their return home.  Throughout the program participants are encouraged to set goals and draft their implementation action plans with help from faculty onsite.  In many cases, attendees come as teams.  In that case they work on their plan together.  This way they have a draft implementation action plan they all worked together to develop.

We supply an excellent work planning tool for your use.  This tool is very useful for any project planning effort and it insures that your program is implemented while engaging stakeholders in a collaborative non-threatening way.