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 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
- This course will help you to begin broadening your perspectives by questioning the assumptions you may have about the people around you. It will also offer you tools to build a more harmonious workplace.Duration1 hour
- This is a six-course program for front line supervisors and staff in pretrial, probation, jails, prisons, parole, and re-entry.Duration1 hour per course
- This course is intended to provide PREA Coordinators who work in community confinement facilities with an overview of their role and responsibilities in achieving and maintaining compliance with PREA.Duration3 hours
- This course will explore forms of moral and authentic leadership, discover how authentic and moral leaders are high-impact leaders, practice behaviors that will lead you to better moral decision-making outcomes, and learn how you can develop your followers to be moral actors.Duration2 hours
- The purpose of this course is to provide jail administrators and jail personnel with sufficient knowledge to develop housing plans that help manage inmate behavior.Duration1 hour