In the complex landscape of the criminal justice system, working with individuals who have mental illness requires a nuanced understanding and specialized approach. As probation officers and case managers, your role extends beyond enforcement and monitoring; you are instrumental in facilitating rehabilitation and support. In this webinar, we delve into essential tools and strategies to effectively engage with individuals experiencing mental health challenges. We briefly explore the complexities of mental illness, offer examples, and equip probation officers with practical tools and skills to effectively engage and support individuals navigating these challenges.
The Officer Safety Training offers probation officers with an opportunity to practice skills to effectively resolve disturbances that may arise in community supervision, home visits, search and seizure, and in the courtroom setting. During the 2.5 day training, officers will review the disturbance resolution model, a tool used to assess situations, as well as various communication techniques to de-escalate situations. Officers will also explore legal justifications for using force, situational desirability, and threat assessment opportunities. This is part of a 2-part, week long training for TPA and TPRA graduates, you may also want to register for the secondary training when register for your first one.
Explore techniques to recognize drug influence when conducting home visits, search and seizure, or during other interactions with probationers. Develop the critical skills to recognize common paraphernalia and the signs and symptoms of persons under the influence of stimulants, hallucinogens, opiates, cannabis, alcohol, depressants, inhalants, and dissociative anesthetics through hands-on instruction. This is part of a 2-part, week long training for TPA and TPRA graduates, you may also want to register for the secondary training when register for your first one.
Join other probation and corrections professionals to build foundational skills through this comprehensive and interactive virtual training academy. Community based corrections is the most significant criminal justice response to crime. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics site, over 70% of all offenders are placed on community based corrections and over 95% of all offenders will be released back into the community. Over the course of 20 weeks, you will examine traditional, evidence-based, victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches to community supervision and re-entry. Course work is designed to support application techniques and case management concepts in the development of core supervisory skills to improve overall outcomes for victims/survivors, communities and offenders.
Motivational Interviewing is a style of interaction that is client-driven and supports individuals in the healing and change process. There is significant research in the health, education and criminal justice fields that supports the use of motivational interviewing in addressing the needs of victim/survivors and offenders, providing support and helping to facilitate change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a trauma-informed interviewing/interacting technique that focuses on creating supportive, meaningful and strategic conversations. This advanced training will provide the context of evidence-based practices on how to have these conversations and will leave you with practical skills to engage in short and effective conversations to initiate, or facilitate, the process of behavior-change and effective support. This training will focus on change talk, working with resistance, and exploring and resolving ambivalence.
Gain an overview of the comprehensive approach to offender management. Discuss the fundamental principles of this approach including victim centeredness, public education, specialized knowledge and training, monitoring and evaluation, and collaboration. These fundamental principles will provide you with a guide for how offender management should be directed, what strategies should be implemented, and which stakeholders should be involved in these efforts. Review core components of offender management including investigation, prosecution, and disposition, assessment; supervision, treatment, and reentry. Finally, you will learn how to begin to develop or enhance their offender management strategies in order to prevent recidivism and promote victim and community safety.
Evidence-based practices clearly demonstrate that the relationship a professional develops with their client is critical in supporting behavior change. Creating a relationship that is supportive, empathetic, accountable and provides appropriate advocacy is foundational in the change process. Developing effective working relationships requires balancing empathy and boundaries with clear goals and an attention to resolving barriers. During the webinar, you will learn the components of developing effective relationships including attending to our own biases, cultural competency, as well as assessing the needs of the client and matching our responses to those needs.
Policies and procedures are one of the most effective ways to communicate expectations, provide guidance to staff, and enhance community trust. Concise, easy- to- read policies and procedures that conform with legislative requirements, align with program vision and missions, and allow Tribal Probation Officers to perform their duties and serve their respective Tribal communities with confidence and guidance to make appropriate decisions that reflect the values of the community they serve.
Policies and procedures are one of the most effective ways to communicate expectations, provide guidance to staff, and enhance community trust. Concise, easy- to- read policies and procedures that conform with legislative requirements, align with program vision and missions, and allow Tribal Probation Officers to perform their duties and serve their respective Tribal communities with confidence and guidance to make appropriate decisions that reflect the values of the community they serve.
Explore techniques to recognize drug influence when conducting home visits, search and seizure, or during other interactions with probationers. Develop the critical skills to recognize common paraphernalia and the signs and symptoms of persons under the influence of stimulants, hallucinogens, opiates, marijuana, alcohol, depressants, inhalants, and dissociative anesthetics through hands-on instruction.