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Organizational Commitment

Many community corrections organizations are facing the challenges of increasing caseloads and limited budgets and resources. Some leaders of those organizations are rethinking how they do business and how to lead their organizations through rapid change and innovation. It is not an easy process, and it requires energetic leadership and a willingness to place equal focus on evidence-based principles related to service delivery, collaboration, and organizational development.

Organizational development mirrors the concepts and strategies of evidence-based principles for effective offender programming. The principles of assessment, intervention, and monitoring/measuring are applicable to most organizational development efforts and sufficiently simple and direct to allow for guided implementation in community corrections agencies. (NIC/CJI)

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2004

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Implementing Evidence-Based Principles in Community Corrections: Leading Organizational Change and Development
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Implementing Effective Correctional Management of Offenders in the Community: Outcome and Process Measures
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Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: Quality Assurance Manual
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Implementing Effective Correctional Management of Offenders in the Community: Implementation Checklist
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