Includes introduction to Community Corrections; limit setting; initiating contact; maintaining standards; investigating; legal issues; thoroughness; client risk to community; stages of change; Thinking Traps; report writing; monitors and state standards: UA, BA, searches, phone monitors; CMC Client Types; PREA; hands-on practice with room searches, pat searches and working the security office; suicide prevention; stress management; The Bridge Back video. Training Length: 19 hours over 4 days
Includes the 2-day basic SOA-R; case management basics with related state standards; introduction to Motivating Correctional Clients to Change (includes basic Motivational Interviewing techniques). Training Length: 21 hours (3 days)
Adult CPR/First Aid (Revised Guidelines 2011)
Protecting yourself; providing care; conscious and unconscious choking; caring for shock; cardiac emergencies and CPR; sudden illnesses; wounds; injuries to muscles, bones and joints; and heat- and cold-related emergencies. This is an American Red Cross Adult CPR/First Aid certified program. Training Length: 5.5 hours
Adult CPR (Revised Guidelines 2011)
Protecting yourself; providing care; conscious and unconscious choking; caring for shock; cardiac emergencies and CPR. This is an American Red Cross Adult CPR/First Aid certified program. Training Length: 3 hours
The importance of appropriate boundaries with our clients, setting limits, types of boundary violations, setting appropriate boundaries, all emphasized by classroom activities. Training Length: 4 hours
Definition of scam; scams in correctional settings, profiles of staff and clients who get involved in scams; client perspective of staff; client code; the basics of the scam; tools of the scam and how to react; and ways to prevent scams. Training Length: 4 hours
Through activities and classroom discussion, this class will teach students ways to detect when people are omitting and/or falsifying information. Specific topics include, reasons humans lie, the Truth Continuum, influences on deception, language and the brain and techniques in Discourse Analysis. Training Length: 4 hours
Motivating Correctional Clients to Change
3 part series, includ
Beginning:
Definition of Motivational Interviewing (MI), 8 principles
of Evidence Based Practices, the Spirit of Motivational
Interviewing, the Principles of Motivational Interviewing,
MI Skills: OARS.
Intermediate/Relapse Prevention: Application of MI to
Stages of Change, recognizing Change Talk, responding to
Change Talk, eliciting Change Talk, skills and strategies to
deal with Resistance.
Advanced:
Solidifies all the information presented in the first two
MCCC sections, including review and demonstration of skills.
Restorative Justice/Victim Impact
Overview of sex offender typologies; treatment modalities; supervision components. Training Length: 7 hours
Standardized Offender Assessments-Revised (SOA-R)
Standardized Offender Assessments-Revised (SOA-R) Advanced
Supervising Corrections Professionals
Definition and role of the supervisor; values and goals; problem solving; supervision styles and behaviors; conflict resolution; why staff do not perform; elements of staff performance; staff personality types. Training Length: 10 hours
Supervising II: Taking it to the Next Level
Overview of some Human Resources rules and regulations; ways to work more closely with HR; the impact of effective vs. harmful communication with staff; the Ladder of Inference; why employees terminate their employment. Training Length: 7 hours