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Standardized Offender Assessments - Revised (SOA-R)
This training certifies staff on all of the Standardized Offender Assessment tools currently is use within Colorado. The instruments covered are:
- Level of Supervision Inventory - Revised (LSI-R)
- Simple Screening Inventory - Revised (SSI-R)
- Adult Substance Use Survey - Revised (ASUS-R)
- Colorado Criminal Justice Mental Health Screen - Adults (CCJMHS-A)
- Treatment Recommendation Worksheet (TxRW)
There is an optional one hour refresher, which is provided FREE for participants of this training. The purpose of the refresher is to identify scoring errors before they become common practice and to review all information provided. This entails staff submitting completed assessments to the trainer. The trainer will provide written feedback (to be distributed at the refresher), review all instruments, and answer questions that surface after practicing the interviews and scoring the assessments.
Target Audience: Case Managers, Prospective Case Managers
Length: Two Days
Cost: $200
Standardized Offender Assessments (SOAR) Advanced
This training is for staff who have been certified in the Standardized Offender Assessments. The focus is on utilizing the assessment process to increase appropriate treatment levels through guided practice and feedback. This also includes a review all information provided during the original training.
Target Audience: Case Managers, Prospective Case Managers
Length: One Day
Cost: $110
This four-hour certified course teaches the correct response to heart attack emergencies, rescue breathing, airway obstruction techniques, and CPR for adult victims.
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: 4 hours
Cost: $37
This five-and-a-half hour certified course is tailored to the needs of business and other work settings, it meets all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) first aid requirements. Course components include how to recognize and care for respiratory and cardiac emergencies, severe bleeding, sudden illness and injuries in adults. This course also includes adult CPR.
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: 5.5 hours
Cost: $44
Motivating Correctional Clients to Change
This course provides Case Managers with the principles and techniques of motivational interviewing, which assists clients in the change process. The curriculum includes:
- Defining and Working with Motivation.
- Ambivalence.
- Resistance.
- Stages of Change.
- How to Conduct Motivational Interviews.
Target Audience: Case Managers
Length: Two Days
Cost: $225
Supervising Corrections Professionals
This course recognizes that being a supervisor is a complicated and lonely job. Employees assigned to supervise other staff are invited to explore the many roles they are required to play. The course will emphasize practical ways for participants to meet their own needs as supervisors and the needs of the staff assigned to them. Topics covered will be:
- Program Management
- Staff
- Training
- Coaching
- Evaluating
- Advising
- Discipline
- Team Building
- Liaison between Staff and Management
Target Audience: All staff who supervise
Length: Two Days
Cost: $225
Staff who work with resistive clients will learn techniques to defuse potentially dangerous situations. This valuable training stresses:
- Techniques for Preventing Escalation
- Verbal De-Escalation Techniques
- Non-Verbal Elements
- The Importance of Awareness
- Processing and Follow-Up Techniques
- Anger Management for Staff
- Office Safety
- General Safety Tips
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: One and One-Half Days
Cost: $150
This course provides staff with a solid working knowledge of how offenders try to manipulate staff, and how staff should respond. The course covers:
- Warning signals (potential problems and indicators)
- Inmate Terms
- The “Set-Up”
- Victim Selection
- “Us Versus Them”
- Manipulation
- Understanding the Criminal Mind
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: One Day
Cost: $115
This training is designed to provide staff with basic information regarding detection and effects of drugs and drug usage. Participants will become familiar with:
- Legal Drugs
- Identification
- Desired Effects
- Side Effects
- Illegal Drugs
- Identification
- Classifications
- Schedules
- Desired Effects
- Side Effects
- Abuse Vs. Dependence
- NYSTAGMUS
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: One Day
Cost: $115
“Do you know who the gang members are in your facility and who their rivals are?” With the ever-growing gang population in Colorado staff need to recognize gang activity and its role in the Criminal Justice System. This training is designed to provide staff with basic information on gangs currently present in Colorado. This information will include the following:
- Prison Gangs
- Street Gangs
- Identifying Gang Members
- Levels of Gang Membership
- Containment
- Monitoring
Target Audience: All Staff
Length: One Day
Cost: $115
This course, facilitated by Norchem Laboratories, provides staff with a comprehensive overview of the forensic testing process. The agenda includes:
- Collecting Samples.
- Chain of Custody.
- Screening Process.
- False Negatives.
- False Positives.
- Confirmations.
- Interpretation.
- Reporting.
- Legal Issues.
- Latest Drug Trends.
Target Audience: All staff.
Length: One Day
Cost: FREE
Participants attending this course will have the opportunity to examine their own overall wellness and to make plans to become more healthy and effective at work. Course facilitators with explore:
- Causes and signs of stress and burnout
- Techniques for managing stress and avoiding burnout
- The elements of physical, professional, mental, intellectual, and spiritual wellness
Target Audience: All staff
Length: Two Days
Cost: $225
The increased number of sex offenders in the criminal justice system adds a new dimension to client supervision. This course provides staff with an overview of sex offender typologies, treatment modalities, and supervision components. The agenda includes:
- Characteristics of Sex Offenders and Sexual Deviance.
- Definitions.
- Behaviors.
- Risk Factors.
- Facts versus Myths.
- Common Treatment Modalities.
- How to Monitor, Supervise, and Contain Sex Offenders.
- SSOTR treatment monitoring tool.
Target Audience: All staff.
Length: One Day
Cost: $115
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