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Crisis in the Community: Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children.............SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 IN ATLANTA TO REGISTER: http://www.mentalhealthgeorgia.com/HTML/WORKSHOP/workshop2.html With vision and action, The Attachment and Bonding Center of Atlanta continues...

I have been asked by the director of Alaska Juvenile justice to draft a policy on how we will deal the many potential issues surrounding a major pandemic with swine flu. Some issues are general prevention, reducing risk of introduction, management and isolation of sick juveniles, workforce issues such...

Dear Corrections Professionals: I am conducting a research project in the course of completing my master’s thesis at UCLA in the Department of Information Studies. I wish to determine the state of library and literacy services and programs in juvenile correctional facilities in California. No nationwide...

Hello, I am an ex correction officer from Georgia and MIchigan. My pastor has put me in charge of forming our correctional outreach ministry. We are in the infant stages of forming the ministry and I am looking for training material to train our future volunteers on inmate manipulation and similiar topics...

I am an Interior Design Grad Student who is working on my fourth year thesis project -- a correctional ficility for young offenders. I am looking to get a broad over view of community based juvenile corrections facilities, the users (physical/emotional needs,how they think/act/feel/heal,etc), the design...

Like many departments, we are experiencing a pronounced increase in gang behavior in our juvenile facilites. Much of it reflects gang conflicts in the communities that the youth bring with them when committed to our department. We are responding with a number of strategies, but are considering augmenting...

Do any of you have mutual aid agreements in place between 2 (or more) facilities as part of emergency planning? Are you willing to share those agreements? We have three juvenile detention/correctional centers close by that are in the process of drawing up an agreement and we are not looking to reinventing...