Popular eCourses
NIC has a catalog of hundreds of free, online eCourses for corrections and community services professionals at all levels. Most eCourses get you credit toward your career goals and most come with a certificate of completion. This platform is available 24/7 to fit in with your schedule. eCourse topics range from PREA and Staff Wellness, to office skills and offender management.
This page contains only a small selection from our larger catalog. Please visit our categories page or use the LMS search to find training on the topics you are interested in.
- During this course, you will learn about the characteristics of effective performance objectives. You will also learn to differentiate between complete and incomplete performance objectives, and lower and higher levels of performance objectives.Duration1 hour
- This course will introduce you to the concept of digital literacy as it applies to the development and delivery of training.Duration1 hour
- This course will show how offenders can Transitioning from Prisons to the Community (TPC) Initiative, the TPC approach and model used, how to implement TPC.Duration3 hours
- This course is an interactive, two course series depicting issues and challenges experienced by women in the community, often very different from men. The second course is designed for correctional staff and related stakeholders who work with justice-involved women.Duration1 hour per part
- This e-course introduces the basic principles of IPC in a corrections or detention setting. It discusses the requirements and challenges of effective IPC in this unique environment and presents evidence-based best practices of IPC.Duration1 hour
- This course will introduce you to the relationship between memory and learning and will present techniques that enhance learning in response to that relationship.Duration1 hour
- This course is designed to help workers in a correctional setting better understand the benefits of reducing the use of restrictive housing.Duration1 hour and 15 minutes
- The purpose of this course is to assist agencies in meeting the requirements of Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Section 115.93 Audits of standards.Duration3 hours
- This course will focus on the differences between effective leaders and managers, and also how they are similar.Duration30 minutes
- In this course, you will learn about objective classification, one of the most important management tools available to jail administrators.Duration3 hours
- This e-course provides an overview of infectious disease outbreaks in correctional and detention facilities and describes the critical role correctional nurses and others play in an outbreak investigation.Duration45 minutes
- This course will introduce you to the purpose of the NIC’s Correctional Leadership Competency Model and how it can be used to develop you, your team, and your organization.Duration1 hour