NIC resources for the American Jail Association (AJA) Conference

Jails

This is the NIC resources page to support the American Jail Association Conference.

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NIC can be found at booth #619 in the Exhibit Hall of the CHI Health Center Omaha.

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2023 Schedule
Sunday, May 21	Monday, May 22	Tuesday, May 23
5:15 p.m.–7 p.m.	10 a.m.–2 p.m.	9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

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NIC has created a collection of resources that set standards and win awards in the field of corrections. These guides, reference manuals, and training materials are useful to all corrections professionals from agencies big and small. Explore our library of publications and streaming content to find solutions to the problems your facility is facing.

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broadcast cover for The Mentally Ill in Jail: Whose Problem Is It Anyway? [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

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document cover for Pretrial Justice: How to Maximize Public Safety, Court Appearance and Release [Internet Broadcast]

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broadcast cover for No News Is NOT Good News: The Role of PIOs in Jails [Internet Broadcast]

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Related Webinars and Broadcasts

NIC has created a number of streaming webinars and longer broadcast segments that cover key corrections topics.

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Maximizing Medicaid: An Innovative Approach to Finance Health Care for Criminal Justice Populations [Webinar]

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033666

"This webinar explains and clarifies the issues related to allowable uses of federal Medicaid funds for incarcerated individuals, and provides an example of how corrections departments can leverage cost savings as a result. The discussion focuses on the challenges related to implementation and

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Women’s Correctional Safety Scales (WCSS) Toolkit

Women's Correctional Safety Scales Toolkit

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033622

AVAILABLE FOR USE IN CORRECTIONAL AGENCIES HOUSING WOMEN IN PRISON AND JAIL SETTINGS

The Women’s Correctional Safety Scales (WCSS) toolkit is a rigorously validated survey designed to assess safety in women’s correctional facilities across multiple dimensions. It measures detained and sentenced

Understanding Veteran-Specific Resources Available to Both Veterans and Criminal Justice Agencies

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033601

Do you want to develop a better understanding of the veteran-specific resources available to both criminal justice agencies and to veterans? Would you like to improve your knowledge of the support available to criminal justice agencies to help build veterans’ programming? Veterans transitioning from

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Measuring What Matters: Outcome and Performance Measures for the Pretrial Services Field [Webinar]

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033573

Like its previous edition, Measuring What Matters, Second Edition helps agencies gather consistent and meaningful data to track the performance of pretrial programs based on the mission and needs of their local criminal justice system.

The second edition emphasizes measures that “work” in the real

title slide from Transformational leadership how to lead yourself, your team, and your organization, part three learning to drive meaningful change

Learning to Drive Meaningful Change [Webinar]

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033572

Every leader must be a change agent to survive and thrive. Great leadership goes beyond transforming yourself and others; it also involves changing your organization. Driving meaningful change in your department or correctional institution does not happen overnight.

It requires a strong leader who

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Seven Steps To Plan a Better Jail

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001595

This document describes the seven steps of systems planning for jails: getting started; get facts and figures; consider the data; make decisions; take action; make the transition; and the plan's follow-up.

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