training courses currently offered by cmi

CMI Training Faculty facilitates a wide variety of topics focusing on criminal justice and correctional staff development utilizing evidence-based principles. 

•    Security Staff Academy –2.5 days, 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. 

•    Case Management Academy –3 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).

•    Adult CPR/First Aid - 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.

•    Boundaries – the importance of appropriate boundaries with our clients, setting limits, types of boundary violations, setting appropriate boundaries, all emphasized by classroom activities.

•    Client Scams - 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.

•    Deception Detection - 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.

•    Effective Team Communication - tools for effective communication and conflict resolution within the work unit.

•    Motivating Correctional Clients to Change – 3 part series, includes Stages of Change, and Motivational Interviewing and Relapse Prevention techniques.

•    Restorative Justice/Victim Impact - principles of restorative justice; comparison of retributive and restorative justice; victims issues; restorative justice practices; adapting principles of restorative justice to case management; the challenge of implementing restorative practices in a community corrections setting.

•    Sex Offender Management - overview of sex offender typologies; treatment modalities; supervision components.

•    Standardized Offender Assessments-Revised (SOA-R) - the substance abuse treatment system; SOA-R instruments; areas measured by SOA-R; application/use of SOA-R.

•    Standardized Offender Assessments-Revised (SOA-R) Advanced - the follow up training to SOA-R. Completion of SOA-R is a pre-requisite for this course.

•    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.

•    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.

•    Verbal De-Escalation - hostile confrontation; importance of verbal de-escalation in corrections; staff safety; dynamics of a hostile situation; hostile communication; dealing with the hostile confrontation.

CMI also works with several other criminal justice and safety related agencies to provide additional relevant training topics.  These agencies include:

Colorado State and County agencies               Drug Testing Laboratories

Treatment Providers                                       Health Depts.

Local Police and Sheriff’s Depts.                     Community Corrections Boards       

See our current Training Calendar or contact Chrystal Owin by email or phone 720.854.0264 x214 for further information.

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