Popular E-Courses
NIC has a catalog of hundreds of free, online E-Courses for corrections and community services professionals at all levels. Most E-Courses 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. E-Courses 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.
- This course focuses on the planning and evaluation of correctional programs. It presents the stages of program planning and design, and then shows how to design an evaluation which matches the program plan.Duration1 hour
- This course will show how you can improve data collection and analysis at your correctional institution.Duration2 hours and 30 minutes
- This course will help you conduct an assessment of your unit or department, help you prepare for the future, and help you put together a plan to maximize the learning of your organization.Duration1 hour
- While this course focuses on data analysis in jails, it gives a basic overview of statistics for any corrections professional. During this course, you will gain general familiarization with types of statistics and how to use them. In addition, you will learn how to explore data analysis by working through a case study.Duration2 hours
- This course will focus on women offenders, their characteristics, differences from male offenders, and how you can assess and plan for their career development upon release into the community.Duration1 hour
- This course sets the stage for performance management activities, such as succession planning, in all types of corrections settings. It explores the connection between sets of correctional management and leadership development competencies through an initial introduction to NIC’s Core Competency work.Duration2 hours
- This course will provide you with information that will contribute to you being a successful Deputy Warden. The course discusses key leadership characteristics and skills to portray, and how to use a priority matrix to help you with achieving work-life balance.Duration1 hour
- 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