Workshop Overview
2021 Workshop Overview
Subject to Change
Below is a current list of workshops offered for 2021, organized by Track.
The workshop descriptions are available here.
Below is a current list of workshops offered for 2021, organized by Track.
The workshop descriptions are available here.
Classification/Housing
- Behavioral Management Unit: Policies, Procedures, and Pitfalls
- Jails Use Data Too! Becoming a More Evidence-Based Jail
- Learn More from Talking to Inmates: Classification Interview Techniques that Work
- Vulnerable in Custody: Finding and Protecting Those Who Need Us Most
Direct Supervision/Strategic Inmate Management
- Making Direct Supervision Work: Operationalizing Through Successes and Challenges Co-Sponsored by NIC
- NIC’s Evolution of Direct Supervision and Inmate Behavior Management Co-Sponsored by NIC
- Planning for a New or Renovated Jail? What Are the Steps? Co-Sponsored by NIC
- Strategic Inmate Management: A Supervisor’s Guide to Success Co-Sponsored by NIC
- What’s Going On with Restrictive Housing in Jails? Mapping Prevalence and Conditions in U.S. Jails
Emerging Issues
- Franklin County, Ohio Corrections Center: A Model Detention Facility
- Gender-Responsive Strategies: Development of Gender Equity in Jails
- Got Resources? Unlocking Solutions to Four Challenging PREA Standards
- Hiring New Staff: Get Quick Results Now
- Improving Accountability and Transparency in Jail Operations
- PREA Audit Prep Bootcamp
- Shades of Grey: The Question of the Effect of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Corrections
- Using Public Relations and Social Media to Tell Your Department’s Story
Leadership
- Assessing Future Leaders: Implementing a Character-Based Promotional Process
- Black Swans vs. Grey Rhinos: Identifying and Utilizing the 10 Families of Risk
- Gender Equity: Stories of Women Trailblazers Who Have Lead “Unapologetically” in Corrections
- Leaders: Are You Listening to Your Employees?
- Multidimensional Crisis Management: A Predictive Framework for Mitigating Adverse Stakeholder Impacts
- Servant Among Us: Servant Leadership in Corrections
- Staff Conflict Resolution
- The Leap to Management: How to Ensure Your Team Has the Skills to Succeed
- The New Generations: How to Recruit, Retain, and Motivate
- Unlocking Your Organization‘s Winning Culture with The Barcelona Way
Legal Issues
- How Investigations Help Reduce Litigation Payouts for Your Jail
- Internal Investigations: Avoiding Costly Pitfalls
- Legal Issues Update Co-Sponsored by NIC
- The ADA and Our Jails: Delivering Service to All with Dignity and Respect
- Understanding and Protecting the Safety of LGBTQI and GNC People in Confinement
Medical & Mental Health
- COVID-19: Lessons We’ve Learned in our Detention Facilities
- Do’s and Don’ts of Medicated-Assisted Treatment: Learning from Our Mistakes
- Heads and Tails of Jail Healthcare: ATI and Reentry
- Keep the Wheels On: Jail Behavioral Health Services as “Hub and Spoke” in the Care Continuum
- Naloxone: How to Implement a Program and Train Deputies
- Recognizing and Managing the Mentally Ill
- Suicide Prevention: The Life You Save May Also Be Your Own
- Using Activity-Tracking Devices to Better Monitor Inmates with Chronic Needs
Programs
- Beyond the Gates: Women Supporting Women in a Correctional Setting
- Changing County Jail Systems Utilizing a Throughcare Rehabilitation Model
- College & Career Readiness in a Jail? Oh Yeah!
- Discharge Planning: Saves Money, Resources, and Vulnerable People
- Programs on Parade: Programs that Work!
- Reentry: Readying Justice-Involved Individuals for Reintegration
Security & Technology
- Building Accountability: Develop Your Use-of-Force Review Unit
- Court Security and Inmate Transport
- Hands-Off Approach to Contraband Screening
- How Integrated Justice Technology Transformed Operations for the Biggest Jail in the Southeast
- Intelligence-Led Policing in Jails
Staff Wellness
- Building Resiliency: The Dawn of the Mentally Strong Employee
- Comprehensive Officer Resilience: A Toolkit for First Responders
- Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Improving Staff Wellness
- Master Your Resilience: EQ for Correctional Workers
- Not Your Average Officer Wellness Course
- Unspoken Killers: Corrections Officer Mental Self-Aid for Stress, PTSD, and Burnout
Training Personnel
- Beyond the Classroom: Translating Training into Evidence-Based Practice
- Developing, Improving, and Evaluating Jail CTO/FTO Programs
- Heroes Training Heroes
Tribal
- Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC): Twenty Years of Data