Responding to the Needs of Probation and Parole: The Development of the Effective Practices in a Community Supervision Model With Families

In the last decade, there has been a growing movement to incorporate the “what works” literature into the community supervision settings, and the evaluations of these new approaches to date have been encouraging. One of these new models of supervision, EPICS [Effective Practices in Community Supervision], has displayed a wide range of positive outcomes (p. 13). This article looks at EPICS and its spin-off Effective Practices in Community Supervision with Families (EPICS with Families.