Justice Involved Women: Developing an Agency-Wide Approach

The program is delivered in two sequential phases –face-to-face training and follow-up coaching. Through blended learning delivery, this 32-hour program leads participant teams through strategic planning to develop an agency plan that provides coordination and direction to manage incarcerated women effectively. The plan will guide the development of agency policies and procedures to ensure that responsive and effective services are provided to meet the supervision and programming needs of justice-involved women. The curriculum is designed to assist agencies in implementing planned change.

Description:

The curriculum is research-based, gender-informed (women), and designed for making systemic changes to improve the management of justice involving women. Identified outcomes for enhanced policy and practice may include working toward reductions in recidivism and intermediate outcomes such as in harm reduction, improved program participation rates, the decreased use of disciplinary sanctions, successful reintegration/reentry, and improvements in community stabilization.

Location

Phoenix Arizona

Who Should Attend

Staff with policymaking and decision-making authority in areas such as oversight of women’s corrections institutions, community corrections programs, leadership roles in critical areas such as medical/mental health, classification, risk and need-reducing programs, and re-entry. The training teams will be comprised of 3-4 individuals representing jails, prisons, community corrections, or combined teams that commit to working together to develop an agency-wide draft proposal for improved management of justice-involved women.

Requirements:

• Teams are asked to make a one-year commitment to this process.
• Must have written endorsement of the top leadership of the agency
• Prepare a short description of what outcomes your agency wishes to achieve in the management of justice-involved women.
• Must be able to demonstrate completion of all pre and post-training assignments, including three (3) 1 hr. online training courses as assigned, and follow-up virtual team coaching. Faculty coaches will work with assigned teams to provide support and guidance, on a limited basis, as teams address challenges, barriers as well as opportunities in policy and practice design.
• Must be able to fully attend 24 hours over 3 days of face-to-face training

Contact: Belinda Stewart, Correctional Program Specialist

b5stewart@bop.gov or 1-202-616-2683