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Evidence-based Practices (EBP) - Principle 5. Increase Positive Reinforcement

  • screenshot of the presentation for the HOPE Probation webinar

    HOPE Probation: Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement

    The CCCN's live webinar highlights Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), a strategy to effect positive behavioral changes in probationers.

  • State of the Art of HOPE Probation (2015)

    This report defines the essential elements of the HOPE strategy and defines additional recommended, but not essential, elements that enhance HOPE and ensure its success, and also describes in detail how the originating HOPE Probation strategy has evolved over 10 years of innovation and practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. The experience from Honolulu’s HOPE Probation provides an example for how other jurisdictions implementing HOPE can adjust and adapt to changing needs and make improvements to their own HOPE strategy over time.

  • Positive Direction for Change (2010)

    Providing incentives and rewarding specific desired behavior motivates individuals to work toward long term behavior change. These strategies focus on public safety, victim protection and restitution, offender accountability, consistent and effective sanctioning, addressing substance abuse issues, reducing offender unemployment and most critically, reducing recidivism through long term behavior modification."