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NIC resources for the American Probation and Parole Association Conference (APPA)

This is the resources page to support the American Probation and Parole Association Conference.

This page gives you direct access to all our conference resources and helps you find the things we reference in our chatroom and videos easier.

NIC had a fantastic time connecting with all of our friends and new probation and parole staff that visited our booth and sessions in Atlanta. If you missed any resources we brought to the conference, you can find them on the page below.

Where to find NIC's Booth:

APPA has not announced booth locations at this time. Please check back closer to the conference

Hours and Availability:

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Highlighted Publications
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.
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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Accession Number
033372

In line with directives from the White House, state authorities, and local officials, criminal justice agencies around the country have modified operations to comply with social distancing, travel restrictions, and mandatory health orders due to COVID-19. These policies have a significant impact on

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Accession Number
033320

This webinar was created for the Family Connections Project. On April 16, 2020, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) presented a 1.5-hour training webinar on strategies for staff to communicate with families and children in correctional facilities.

This webinar covered four major topics:

Relevant NIC Microsites
These Micro-websites contain a variety of content from training guides to video series or landing pages for important corrections communities. They may prove useful if you are looking for more information on a topic they cover.
National Institute of Corrections Team

Holly Busby

Holly Busby
Job Title / Position
Deputy Director (A)
Division
Executive
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections

Holly Busby has a diverse career in the criminal justice and social service system spanning more than 29 years. Holly currently serves as the Chief of the Community Services Division for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) in Washington, D.C. NIC is a leader in the field of criminal justice, providing innovative training, technical assistance and information services to federal, state, tribal and local corrections agencies as well as public policymakers. In her current role, she leads the division which focuses on pretrial, probation, and parole. Holly along with her exceptional team of Correctional Program Specialists work together to bring innovative projects to enhance correctional practice throughout the country. Some of these initiatives include: Evidence Based Decision Making, Pretrial Justice and Front End Interventions, Parole Structured Decision Making Framework, Dosage Probation, Supporting and Facilitating Behavior Change, Justice Involved Women, Trauma Informed and Gender-Responsive programs, and Justice Involved Veterans, Community Supervision Staff Health and Wellness. Prior to serving as Chief, Holly was a Correctional Program Specialist leading NIC’s Thinking For a Change Initiative and Facilitating Leadership Development Programs for the Academy Division.

Prior to her employment with the National Institute of Corrections, Holly worked as a Program Manager with Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted County Community Corrections in Rochester, MN. In that capacity, she was responsible for the supervision of the Corrections Probation, Supervised Release, Intensive Supervised Release and Adult Sex Offense Supervision Units. Prior to becoming a manager with DFO Community Corrections, Holly served as a senior probation agent, during which time she supervised various populations, including juveniles and adults convicted of sexual and domestic violence offenses, as well as individuals on Intensive Supervised Release. Holly served as a driving force behind the shift to Evidence Based Practices (EBP) in her agency, advocating for increased and ongoing trainings in Motivational Interviewing, Case Planning, Level of Service/Case Management Inventory risk assessment, as well as population-specific trainings to keep direct supervision agents at the forefront of EBP.

Holly is a former Licensed Peace Officer through the State of Minnesota’s Post Board, and worked in the patrol and civil/warrants divisions of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Department. She also served as a certified DARE officer. Holly has worked as a Victim Services Social Worker with Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted County Community Correction serving as a Crime Victim’s Advocate, Sexual Assault Crisis Counselor and the Coordinator of the Victim Services Volunteer Program. Prior to that, Holly was a Child Protection Specialist with Dodge County Human Services, licensed through the State of Minnesota’s Board of Social Work.

Robbye Braxton

Job Title / Position
Chief (A)
Division
Community Services Division
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections
Phone
202-514-4562

In 2007 Robbye began working with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), as a correctional program specialist in the Jails Division. Currently, Robbye is a correctional program specialist with NIC’s Community Services Division. In that capacity, she serves as project manager for developing trainings and special projects for paroling authorities based on evidence based practices. In collaboration with Carleton University of Canada, Robbye helped to form a specialized NIC technical assistance program for parole structured decision making framework, enhancing the quality of release decision by parole boards and public safety. Robbye has also been assigned to a special Justice Department project, where she led a team of criminal justice leaders from across the country to develop reentry recommendations to assist the successful return of people back into the community.

Robbye has a BS in Criminology from the University Of Maryland, and working towards her MPA from American University in Washington, DC.

Lorie Brisbin

Job Title / Position
Correctional Program Specialist
Division
Community Services Division
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections
Phone
202-514-0099

Lorie Brisbin currently manages the Executives of Probation and Parole Network and the Post-Conviction Victim Services Network along with other work in the areas of staff wellness and paroling authorities.

She has been recognized as an authority in the area of sexual violence in correctional settings and has expertise in both offender and victim perspectives. In 2012, Lorie received a Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Attorney General for her participation on the PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) Standards Working Group.

Prior to coming to NIC in 2010, she was employed by the Idaho Department of Correction for ten years, serving as a probation/parole officer, statewide Parole Coordinator, Transitions Coordinator, PREA Program Coordinator and as an investigator in the Office of Professional Standards (internal affairs).

Gregory Crawford

Job Title / Position
Correctional Program Specialist
Division
Community Services Division
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections
Phone
202-514-4273

Greg Crawford is a Correctional Program Specialist at the National Institute of Corrections (NIC). In addition to a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Chapman University, Greg has extensive leadership and criminal justice experience, which includes more than 20 years working in a misdemeanant probation department, a community-based mental health center, and over eight years with NIC supporting the field on a national level.

At NIC, Greg developed the Veterans Compendium Project. This project aims to provide justice-involved veterans’ resources at every point in the criminal justice system from law enforcement, veteran’s treatment courts, local jails, prisons, and finally to reentry. The most recent publication for the Veterans Compendium Project focused on specialized housing units for veterans in prisons. For the next resource in the series, he is working with American University on a publication that will address reentry for veterans. Further, he worked with the Center for Court Innovation to develop the first specialized set of screening and assessment tools, and a case planning protocol for justice-involved veterans. He is now working with American University and the Bureau of Justice Assistance to pilot test the tools in multiple jurisdictions with the goal of making the tools the standard for the field. Greg also worked with the Center for Court Innovation to develop a curriculum that focuses on responsivity issues for justice-involved veterans. The curriculum addresses military culture, service-related trauma, difficulties with transition from military to civilian life, and helps staff build basic skills to more effectively manage the justice-involved veterans on their caseloads. The curriculum has been piloted and is now in the process of being converted to an e-course. Greg serves as co-chair of the American Probation and Parole Association’s Justice Involved Veterans Committee and manages the NIC sponsored Justice Involved Veterans Network (JIVN). In addition, he was recently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans (ACHV) led by the Veterans Health Administration.

Greg’s other projects include Dosage Based Probation and providing training and technical assistance to the field. He is a US Air Force veteran and passionate about improving the lives of those who served our country.

Katie Green

Job Title / Position
Correctional Program Specialist
Division
Community Services Division
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections
Phone
202-307-0149

Katie Green is a Correctional Program Specialist with the National Institute of Corrections overseeing and actively participating in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of resources to enhance the competencies of criminal justice practitioners. Prior to joining NIC eight years ago, Katie was a criminal justice practitioner in the Commonwealth of Virginia leading organizational change efforts and improving pretrial and community corrections services and programming with the implementation of evidence-based practices. Included in her portfolio with NIC, Katie manages resource development, training and technical assistance projects to advance the work of community corrections and local criminal justice systems.

NIC Information Center support staff

Allison Dohr

Job Title / Position
Information Specialist, Contractor
Division
Information Center
Agency / Business / Organization
National Institute of Corrections

Allison is a newcomer to the Information Center. Her main tasks include answering reference questions, doing research for larger projects, and supporting her colleagues in their professional duties.

Allison will complete a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in December 2021. Prior to her time at the Information Center, she ran the law library for the Denver Correctional Complex for four years.

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