Corrections Community

NE Region under NIC's Regional Training Initiative will present Thinking for a Change Facilitator Training April 21-24, 2008. This is a 32-hour advanced level training program that will prepare participants to facilitate offender groups utilizing the Thinking for a Change cognitive skills development...

The Thinking for a Change curriculum uses as its core, a problem solving component, embellished by both cognitive restructuring and social skills interventions. The curriculum is comprised of 22 lessons with a capacity to extend the program indefinitely, depending upon how many cognitive skills are taught...

In December 1997, the National Institute of Corrections introduced a new integrated cognitive behavior change program for offenders and sought a limited number of state, local or federal correctional agencies to serve as field test sites for the Thinking for a Change (T4C) program. An overwhelming response...

Address the diverse and multiple cognitive, social, and emotional needs of the correctional population using the popular program, Thinking for a Change (T4C) . The National Institute of Corrections provides this program, free of charge, to correctional agencies working to develop their continuum of programmatic...