Is Your Organization Interested in Actively Joining with NIC and Its State and Local Partners to Create a Regional Training Needs-Based Agenda and Focus?
Then Consider Joining Forces with The Southern Region Team of the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Academy Division’s Regional Training Initiative (RTI)!
The Southern Region RFC (Regional Field Coordinator) Team is actively recruiting for new team members / partner organizations for FY2007. The application deadline for FY2007 is Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Do You Want to Be a Part of the Southern Region Team? Or Get Your Organization Involved? Then Apply and/or Support a Staff Member to in becoming an RFC Team Member!
Volunteer Regional Field Coordinators (RFCs) are essential to the success of NIC's Regional Training Initiative. Southern Region team membership is comprised of 10 volunteer RFC team members, who are training and development professionals representing state and local agencies and the disciplines of community corrections, jails, prisons, and juvenile justice. New RFCs are selected on an annual basis, depending on discipline group openings and the region's team member needs. The Southern Region Team accepts applications on a year-round basis.
Who Does the Southern Region Serve?
The Southern Region of the NIC Academy Division’s Regional Training Initiative (RTI) serves local, state and federal adult and juvenile correctional agencies in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the Virgin Islands. We do this by leveraging resources, as we seek to meet training and training related needs gaps, not currently being filled at the local, state and federal level.
Follow this link http://www.nicic.org/WebPage_181.htm for benefits to RFCs agencies, this link to support offered by / requested from our agency partners http://www.nicic.org/WebPage_180.htm , this link to information on what RFCs do http://www.nicic.org/WebPage_179.htm , as well as information on NIC’s support of the initiative http://www.nicic.org/WebGateway_174.htm .
Who is an Ideal Southern Region RFC Team Member?
Ideal candidates for Southern Region RFC work are training directors, administrators, coordinators, or senior trainers in adult or juvenile corrections agencies who have experience in developing, delivering, and/or coordinating training in their home agencies. Applicants must have the endorsement of their agencies' chief executive officer to ensure they will have agency support in carrying out RFC duties.
Specifically, the Southern Region Team is looking for prospective team members who:
- Have access to and are proficient with computer technology (synchrounous learning platforms such as WebEx, Illuminate, etc., e-mail, CDs and DVDs, word processing and spread sheet programs, etc.)
- Are self-motivated and self-initiators on project
- Are follow-through team members (they close the deal!)
- Are creative and innovative
- Enjoy being a team player in a high performing team atmosphere
- Enjoy working on one or more project teams simultaneously
- Have demonstrated training and development and/or training administration experience
- Have the authority to allocate resources and make decisions on the use of resources
- Writing, editing and excellent interpersonal and team communication skills
- Have a willingness to travel to far-away places and experience new things!
- Have the support of their organization for full participation in this endeavor
How Do I Get Our Organization Involved / Apply to be a Southern Region RFC / RTI Team Member?
If you are interested in becoming part of the Southern Region Team in 2007, please submit NIC Form E - Application for Regional Field Coordinator. Form E includes a statement of endorsement by your chief executive officer, which must be completed for you to be considered for the Southern Region Team.
Follow this link to Form E http://www.nicic.org/Downloads/PDF/TrainingForms/FormE.pdf
Who Can I Contact for More Information?
NIC's Southern Region Team is coordinated through the NIC Academy Division, located in Longmont, Colorado.
NIC Academy Division
Leslie LeMaster, Southern Region NIC Staff Coordinator
1960 Industrial Circle
Longmont, Colorado 80501
Phone: (303) 682-0382 Toll-free: (800) 995-6429, ext. 121; Fax: (303) 682-0469
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What is the Regional Training Initiative itself?
What is the RTI and How Does It Work?
NIC's Regional Training Initiative functions as a national network, coordinated through four regions, that enables NIC and their federal partners to support correctional training nationwide. Through its regional focus, NIC, and their partner, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), support the delivery of corrections-related training and the development of training resources at no or minimal cost to local and state governments. It is made possible by volunteer trainers in each region and the generous support of the volunteers' agencies and other participating groups. The Regional Training Initiative is coordinated by the NIC, Academy Division.
The network's volunteer trainers, or Regional Field Coordinators (RFCs), expand NIC's capacity to deliver quality correctional training and assist in the development of training-related products at the local, state, and federal levels. The Regional Training Initiative is non-traditional in that it brings together RFCs from state, local, and federal agencies and from the disciplines of community corrections, jails, prisons, and juvenile justice.
With NIC support, RFC teams in each region develop and implement a yearly strategic plan to address the region's specific, unique correctional training needs. The 40 RFCs - 10 from each region -- share training programs, resources, and ideas within their region and with their RFC counterparts around the country. RFCs typically serve in this capacity for up to 3 years.
See the end of this announcement for a current Southern Region RTI Team Members. Feel free to contact them!
Follow this link http://nicic.org/WebGateway_174.htm to information on the RTI, regional and NIC staff contacts, regionally developed tools and curriculum, training offerings, and other tools developed for the initiative that can be of help to any training and development/performance enhancement professional in the corrections and juvenile justice field.
FY2006 Southern Region RTI Team
Alumni Coordinator: Bill O’Connell
e-mail: billoconnell@comcast.net ; 303-989-0402
Ms. Wendy D. Williams, Director of Training
Alabama Department of Corrections
334-872-6228; e-mail: wwilliams@doc.state.al.us
Ms. Peggy Bailey, Coordinator, Staff Development & Training
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
901-545-2638; baileyp@shelby-sheriff.org
Ms. Barbara Weber, Corrections Training Coordinator Sgt
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office
904-630-7181; Barbara.Weber@jaxsheriff.org
Mr. Robert J. (Rob) Reardon, Director of Corrections
Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office
337-236-5488; rob.reardon@lafayettesheriff.com
Ms. Carey Welebob
Deputy Director - Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Community Justice Assistance Division
512-671-2467; e-mail: carey.welebob@tdcj.state.tx.us
Ms. Gayle Tallon Brazell, Training Director
South Carolina Department of Corrections
803-896-1448; brazell.gayle.@doc.state.sc.us