Workshop Overview
2019 Workshop Overview
Subject to Change
Below is a current list of workshops offered for 2019, organized by Track.
A workshop schedule will be posted in March.
Below is a current list of workshops offered for 2019, organized by Track.
A workshop schedule will be posted in March.
Saturday Immersive Workshops
- A Jail Administrator's Toolkit
- Franklin County Steps Up: Another Perspective into Reducing the Number of People with Mental Illness in Jail
- Liability and Risk Management for Supervisors
- Mentoring: A Renewed Element of Senior Management Responsibility
- PREA: A Practitioner's Forum
- Responding to a Persistent Challenge: How to Recognize and Reduce the Potential for Mortality in Jail
Behavioral/Mental Health
- Changing Mindsets: The Road to Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Jail
- Compassion: Connect, Communicate, and Care
- Effective Management of Inmates on the Autism Spectrum: Defiance or Low Social Competence?
- Emotional Illness and the Female Inmate
- Jail-Based Competency Treatment: Solution to an Expanding Problem
- No Shame, No Blame: Breaking the Silence of Mental Illness in Jails
- Prediction of Violence: Safer Management Using a Team Approach
- Strategies for Treating People with Behavioral Health Needs in Rural Jails
Direct Supervision
- Strategic Inmate Management: NIC's Evolution of Direct Supervision and Inmate Behavior Management
Emerging Issues
- Bail Reform
- Building a Strong Team and Dealing with the Toxic Employee
- Hiring and Recruitment in Jails: Get the Right Employee Fit! (Cosponsored by NIC)
- Hot Topics
- Legal Issues Update (Cosponsored by NIC)
- LGBTQ Law Enforcement
- Morale: How this Elephant in the Jail Adversely Impacts Your Most Critical Outcomes
- Opiates and Opioid Facts: Detection, Identification, and First Responder Protection
- Protecting Our Jail Professionals: Mind and Body
- Reform, Reform ... Transform
Operations/Security
- Correctional Influence and Professionalism
- Effective Ways to Manage and Reduce Violence in Correctional Facilities
- Effects of Natural Disasters on Local Jails
- Games Inmates Play: Inmate Manipulation
- Improving Jail Safety Through Root Cause Analysis
- Recipes for Controlling the Emotional Hijack When Roasted, Shaken, and Stirred Amid Crisis
- Transport Challenges and Courtroom Management
- Utilizing Force Option Training Platforms
Programs
- Coloring Outside the Lines: Transforming Jail Culture
- Doing the "Cupid Shuffle" with Community Stakeholders to Build a Mental Health Reentry Program
- Four Steps to Comprehensive Reentry for People Addicted to Opioids
- Increasing Public Safety by Breaking the Cycles
- Pretrial Justice Program (PJP): Take Your Community Corrections to the Next Level
- Progressive and Creative Approaches to Reentry
- Targeted Reentry Success: Action, Plans, Tools, and Tips for Success
- They Served Us, Now We Can Serve Them: Veterans in Custody and Return to the Community
Special Topics
- Harris County's New Joint Processing Center: Modern Technology and Design Innovation
- How Important is Your Jail Data
- Inmates with Disabilities: Correctional Compliance with ADA
- Intake Screening: Digging for the Hidden Dangers
- Legislative Roundtable
- Oops, It Happened Again! PREA Incident Review
- Tell Your Own Story: Utilizing and Managing Social Media
- "We've Never Done It Like That Before!" Creating a High-Reliability Organization
Training and Professional Development
- Are We Reaching Them?
- Creating a Remarkable Effective Training Plan
- Ethics in Leadership: One Foundational Stone at a Time
- Implicit Bias: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
- Jump Start Your Jail's Leadership Development
- Leading for Influence: It Matters What You Choose Each Day
- New Generations: Why We Need Them and Why We Should Be Glad We Hired Them
- Protecting Our Officer: Trauma-Informed Training for a Resilient Workforce
