Corrections Community

NIC produced a curriculum devoted to Offender Job Retention.  You can order it free of charge by contacting the NIC Information Center at 800-877-1461 or asknicic@nicic.org.  

“Building Futures": Offender Job Retention for Corrections Professionals. This 36- hour NIC Distance Learning satellite/internet broadcast program that aired October,2002 covered the skills, strategies, and resources to address job retention issues and increase employment success of people with criminal records. Curriculum materials are available online or on cd-rom; Request item 017699.

Hector, you also might check out this paper:

Results from a survey of offender employment and retention issues that utilizes close-ended questions regarding topics such as assessment, case management, follow-up, and relapse are analyzed. This report is comprised of the following sections: introduction; theory; assessment; case management; job retention relapse model; relapse prevention plans; and the future of offender job retention efforts by practitioners.

 You can download it from the NIC web site.  The link is http://nicic.org/Library/021352.

“Building Futures": Offender Job Retention for Corrections Professionals. This 36- hour NIC Distance Learning satellite/internet broadcast program that aired October,2002 covered the skills, strategies, and resources to address job retention issues and increase employment success of people with criminal records. Curriculum materials are available online or on cd-rom; Request item 017699.

Here is a link that will allow you to order the above mentioned program online if you wish.

http://info.nicic.org/RMS/myAccount/?myDocs=017699