4th Annual  International Corrections Leadership Summit

"Public Safety Through Evidence Based Correctional Change, Reentry & Reintegration Practices"

JULY 26 - 30, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Several options are offered today for addressing public safety and more are headed your way!  Each option they tell you is better than the one offered yesterday.  Akin to trial by error!  So what do you do?

We invite you to our annual program on evidence-based approaches for tackling public safety through correctional reentry, rehabilitation and re-integration.  We have delivered these solutions over the years to nearly 400 sites.  Our participants have able to take these simple systems and implement them to address there local situations.  They are achieving desired outcomes as they address several challenges they face, including minimizing recidivism, offender relapse, inmate overcrowding, community collaboration,a nd much more -- while enhancing public safety.  

Don't get caught up in the hype!  Join us at one of our programs to begin achieving uncommon outcomes which go beyond compliance -- especially in this day and age of ocnstraiined public resources and increased demands for accountability.  More than ever, leaders must choose wisely how available resources will be spent.

Programs supported by evidence and focused on outcomes have become the norm -- not the exception.  

Join us this July 26-30 at the fabulous Marriott Perimeter Center Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for Joyfields Institute 4th Annual Corrections and Prisons Leadership Summit to learn not just high level evidence based strategies and tactics but also understand critical elements that come into play down-stream "where rubber-meets-the-road" to ultimately create a safe place for the community.   

What should you expect?

  • Expert and Practitioner Talks

  • Workshops

  • Site Visits

  • Motivation, Networking, and so much more!

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Day-1

Evidence Based Practices: Successfully Transitioning Clients from Jails & Prisons To Community

This program is built around the understanding that anti-social behaviors are just the tip of the iceberg. In order for lasting behavior changes to occur, one must get to the thinking beneath. So while the workshop examines the systemic factors in offender reform and reentry, it addresses the thinking that underlies successful transitions and how that is achieved.

Participants will learn key Cognitive Behavioral concepts within the context of the Transition to Community models for prisons and jails as developed by the National Institute of Corrections.  This portion of the program addresses key elements essential  to successful client transitions and ultimate reintegration to their communities.  Aspects covered include;

  • Overview Re-entry, Resettlement and Reintegration

  • Sensible Re-entry, Resettlement and Reintegration

  • Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and What Works

  • Transition To Community Models for Jails and Prisons

  • Implementing the Model

  • Developing the capacity, putting your team together

  • Program Development

The program examines further what to take into account as you implement your plan such as;

Transforming Your Organization & Managing the Change
Implementing EBP programs entail change and the need to manage that change process.  Getting staff and stakeholders to “buy into” something new is a difficult art to master!  The session will identify components of organizational structure that can affect the success or failure of seemingly "wanted" change initiatives, such as transitions into community.

Collaboration and Community Partners
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 staff roles and functions adapt to account for clients re-entering the community? What is your "go-to-market" plan?

Domains of Risk and Appropriate Interventions
Domains of risk have been identified through the work of many researchers and practitioners.  These are domains that are associated with criminal behavior and recidivism.  Knowledge of the domains of risk characteristic of the offender is most helpful in determining the most appropriate and effective intervention.
Although there is no magic bullet to eliminate the risk of criminal behavior, this session will explore how variance in risk factors, as well as responsivity factors and protective factors, in part account for eventual antisocial behaviors and criminal conduct.

The session will also review the match-up between risk factors characteristic of the offending client and the type of program interventions most likely to yield enduring results for success in community.

Effective Assessment Practice, Tools and Resource for Effective Offender Transitions
Assessment is the engine that drives effective correctional and behavioral change programs leading to successful transition to the community. Successful administrators and practitioners must prepare clients to be successful as they transition through their various stages. Transition begins at day-one through the use of effective and systematic screening and assessment practices.

Tools for assessing clients have flooded the market in recent years making it difficult to determine the best route for an organization, what assessments or instruments to select and what vendor best meets the needs of the organization and its clients.

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Evidence Based Program Evaluation, Accountability and Performance Assessment for Program Sustainability and Funding

Many agencies do a great job of implementing and managing their program, but do a less admirable job "telling their story".  An agency or service provider may have the best product, but will "die on the vine" if "marketing" fails - so to speak!

This program aims to equip you with what you need to address this deficiency.  Increasingly, policy-makers, funding agencies, and the general public are demanding accountability from justice system institutions and social service providers. As the demands on public resources grow, it becomes more and more important to choose wisely how available public resources will be spent. Agencies and organizations working in the human services field have been feeling the effects of this trend, and many struggle to provide meaningful information about the work they do as they pursue funding and other resources to support their programs.

Historically, justice practitioners have relied greatly on intuition and personal experience to guide their work and determine consequences for anti-social behavior. More recently, however, performance assessment has become a key component of the evidence-based programming and accountability movement. Performance assessment emphasizes measuring an organization’s ability to do things, encompassing the measurement of productivity (how much they do), effectiveness (how efficiently they do it), quality (how well they do it), and timeliness (how long it takes them to do it).

In this presentation, we cover the basic aspects of performance assessment, in terms of why it should be done, how it should be done, and how the results can be used to benefit the organization. In general, performance assessment links organizational philosophy and mission to specific agency activities, and further allows an organization to determine whether its goals and objectives are being achieved. Measuring performance requires a clear unit of analysis (e.g., individual offenders or clients); consistent data collection procedures and processing; and regular dissemination of important information generated by the data. In measuring performance, multiple outcomes (i.e., measures of success) should be considered that indicate what the organization is trying to achieve (e.g., reduce recidivism, improve school performance, enhance family relationships, etc.). When done well, performance assessment can produce results that improve operational and staff management; assist with resource acquisition, allocation, and budgeting; and inform stakeholders about organizational successes and needs.

Recent experiences of a diverse array of jurisdictions across the country illustrate that it is possible, practical, and useful to measure the performance of criminal justice systems and organizations devoted to working with judicial clients.

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Day-2
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills:  Keys to Optimizing Reentry Success

This year several agencies will implement cognitive behavioral programs or some other form of strength based approach -- with the best intentions.  Unfortunately many will do so not understanding the entire picture and end up with partial success if at all. 

For decades the field of mental health and social services maintained a focus on offender deficiencies and limitations as the basis for addressing solutions.  Recent research findings question this deficit-based approach and has moved to a more holistic model that operates efficiently within several evidence based frameworks. 

Strength based strategies as an approach is a departure from deficit based models that evolved from institutional settings.  They focus on the development of an assistive and collaborative partnership which will be made use of in working through the transition process.  As the basis for effecting lasting change, this program explores the belief that people have unique talents, skills, and life events, in addition to specific unmet needs.

What we will cover;

Participants will learn which programs operate within strength-based frameworks.  

They will more specifically gain deeper basic understanding of two skill areas;

Cognitive Behavioral Approaches for Managing Individual and Group Interactions

A cognitive-behavioral approach is the primary foundational model for criminal conduct and substance abuse interventions.  This module teaches cognitive behavioral skills with the aim of enhancing the efficacy of the judicial worker.   

Plus --

Motivational Interviewing Skills

Motivational Interviewing or Motivation Enhanced approaches have applications in various human services settings including criminal justice, corrections and law enforcement, mental and behavioral health, housing and others. Learning how to apply its principles is essential for success in the utilization of many cognitive behavioral approaches to realize meaningful change in anti-social behavior and ultimately preventing 

In this segment participants will learn how Cognitive Behavioral approaches and Motivational Interviewing are integrated successfully in various settings to optimize results.

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Day-3

  • Case Study on Reentry Implementations In Practice: One County's Implementation Efforts In Face of Budget Constraints and Early Prisoner Releases

The County of San Diego's Local Re-entry Program is a collaborative partnership between the Sheriff’s Department, the District Attorney’s Office, the Probation Department and the Courts.  The concept of this comprehensive program is to develop, implement and maintain a Local Re-entry Program (LRP) that is designed to assist, educate, treat addictions and transition local inmates into the community using evidenced-based practices. 

This is a response to critical systemic change in the county's criminal justice system to address the defensive fiscal measures and program/process necessities needed to address the challenge of the return of early release, non-revocable parole prisoners to the County and the existing local chronic offenders.

The presentation will cover San Diego County’s response to the early releases of state prisoners, the implementations of programs to address these challenges and working with other criminal justice partners to provide a more efficient process to mitigate costs and risks.

The “take aways” of this presentation will be:

•    Defining and Working with the Right Population Based on Resources

•    Overcoming Challenges Associated in Working with Reduced Budgets

•    Identifying Key Collaborative Partners

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Reentry Systems Implementation, Obstacles Encountered and How They Were Overcome: A Panel Discussion

A panel of practitioners who are actively implementing evidence based reentry programs discuss lessons learned.
 

Days 4 & 5

Site Visits and Networking

This segment of the program is conducted off-site at agencies doing the work discussed.  Details of facilities will become available shortly. 

PROGRAM FACULTY

  • Sue Clement, LPC, NCC, Law Enforcement Liaison, Lapeer County Community Mental Health
  • Dr. David L. Myers, Professor of Criminology and Interim Director, John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • Robert Vander Kamp, Inmate Services Division Manager, San Diego County Sherrif's Department
  • Kevin Warwick, President, Alternative Solutions Associates

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KEY REASON WHY YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD ATTEND

· You will network with colleagues to share invaluable ideas and experiences from different parts

· You will meet the finest corrections leaders serious about the business and learn how they do what they do

· You will leave at the end of the program with action steps to take to begin address the challenges you face

· You will learn from an expert faculty what works and know what mistakes to avoid

· We don't stop at just the class room studies. You will learn in discussion groups and trouble shooting sessions how to address the re-entry opportunities ahead

· Learn key skills for great corrections systems leadership

· Learn first hand the best and latest resources for addressing corrections needs and how to apply them

CERTIFICATE COURSE

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate as evidence of your accomplishment and status as a practitioner who has acquired specific new skills. Your certificate will be delivered upon completion of the course.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Mid to high level managers, executives and professional at corrections and rehabilitation organizations, Program Directors, Case Management Team Leaders, Probation Officers, Researchers & Planners, Inmate Population Management, Administrators, Managers, Supervisors, Prisons Chiefs, Commissioners and Directors, Community Corrections Leadership, Social Workers, and Pre-Release Specialists.

It is suited to those who have leadership responsibility for running operations and implementing reform and rehabilitation programs. It is highly recommended for the seasoned professional who is serious about the corrections profession.

You should also attend, if you cater to the corrections industry and would like to meet and network with leaders of these institutions and learn what interest them.

“Loved the small group participation and the group field trips.” – RVK, San Diego Sheriff’s Department

“Organizers were very friendly and the first 2 days lecture was excellent, thanks.” DC, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department

ACCOMMODATION, REGISTRATION FEE, INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

HOTEL & ACCOMMODATION

Our host hotel is the Marriott Atlanta Perimeter Center conveniently located in Atlanta's exclusive Perimeter area at 246 Perimeter Center Parkway N.E., Atlanta, GA 30346. Its central location provides easy access to all of Atlanta's attractions parks, shopping, sporting events and historical venues including Stone Mountain Park, Six Flags Over Georgia, the Georgia Aquarium, Buckhead, Turner Field, The World of Coca-Cola, Philips Arena, CNN Center, Centennial Park, the Georgia Dome, and much more.  Its located off I-285 (exit 29) just east of GA 400.

marriott_hotel_lobbyWe have reserved a limited number of rooms for our participants. Program sessions will be held within the host facility except for our site visits. 

You may reserve your room and get our preferred rate by clicking here or contacting the hotel directly by phone at +1(800)-MARRIOTT.  Make sure to mention "JOYJOYA" when you reserve your room to receive the negotiated Joyfields Institute room rate.  View hotel details at www.atlantamarriottperimeter.com.  If we can assist you in anyway, please feel free to contact our office at +1(770)409-8780 or send email to yvette@joyfields.org. 

** If you are an International participant, Joyfields offers special assistance to ease travel to the USA from abroad. Our package includes assistance securing accommodation, visas, and transportation. Send email to international@joyfields.org or call +1(678)720-2772 to let us know how we can assist you in anyway. Make sure to provide details. Tell us in your email exactly how we can assist. Include a telephone number and email address in all correspondence so we can contact you if necessary.

REGISTRATION FEES

Includes all training sessions, training materials, continuing education hours (JI is approved education provider recognized by various national bodies), site visits where applicable, continental breakfast and lunch are also included. Complimentary 1 year membership in JI - includes newsletter and discounts to Joyfields' sponsored programs. Participants are responsible for all other expenses including charges for accommodations, airfare, dinners and all personal expenses.

  • Single Attendee for 3-Day Program Only: $1295 (Mon - Wed. Includes workshops, general sessions and breakouts), or

  • Attend Entire 5-Day Program: $2495 (Mon - Fri. Includes workshops, general sessions, breakouts, site visits)

    4th Participant Attends FREE    !  Register 3 or more for the same program, at the same time, from the same organization, and the 4th person registers FREE. (Use Promo Code - "4th Free")

Members take additional 10% off on all Joyfields Sponsored programs. Members, please fax your registration to 678-605-0271 to be processed.  View customers and members

To Register Now Online, click here, or download and complete registration/reserve slot form and fax to +1(678)605-0271.

For assistance, call +1(770)409-8780 or send email to info@joyfields.org.

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