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ARCHS IN ST. LOUIS TO LAUNCH NEW MENTORING PROGRAM VIA SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING

ARCHS AWARDED $265,944 IN FEDERAL SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING FOR MENTORING PROGRAM ST. LOUIS, MO: Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) has been awarded $265,944 in funding by the U.S. Department of Justice to create a pre and post prison release mentoring program to serve non-violent...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by ARCHS on 10-01-2009
Re: Bank Caseloads

The only ones we're aware of are the call-in systems which create too much work for the PO (thus defeating the whole purpose). POCHECK makes the most sense for us. We really like how easy it is to use and they have features that are so forward thinking, that you can tell it was designed by practitioners...

Posted to Community-Based Corrections (Forum) by PnPMO on 09-16-2009
Validation of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Risk Assessment Instrument

The use of risk assessment instruments to measure the probability of individuals under community supervision re-offending is standard operational procedure (SOP) for probation and parole agencies across the country. Across the different generations of instruments that have been employed, the basic question...

Posted to Community Corrections for Professionals (Weblog) by CC Pro on 09-04-2009
New Radio Shows on What Works in Parole and Probation and Promoting P&P Officers--177,000 Requests for July

Welcome to DC Public Safety–radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system. See http://media.csosa.gov for our television and radio shows, blog and transcripts. We now average 177,000 requests per month. We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Leonard Sipes on 08-06-2009
MO-DOC Motivational Interviewing Skill Builder

Motivational interviewing techniques have proven themselves beneficial in criminal justice applications. Used with success by substance abuse practitioners to open the lines of effective communications with their clients, motivational therapy techniques have a proven track record of success. This instruction...

Posted to Share a File (FileGallery) by Ed Yahnig on 07-28-2009
MO-DOC Motivational Interviewing

The practice of motivational interviewing (MI) has gained ground in recent years as an effective best practice for the criminal justice field. It has long been utilized with success in the field of substance abuse. In 2008 the Missouri DOC Reentry Leadership Team researched the benefits of MI, and prescribed...

Posted to Share a File (FileGallery) by Ed Yahnig on 07-28-2009
Re: Missouri Probation & Parole Officers

I had a question for anyone who could answer. I have recenlty, after sitting on the register for 6 months, been sent several letters asking me to interview. After sending in all my information I have interviewed several times for the position of corrections casework trainee(cc/pp). However, the true...

Posted to Community-Based Corrections (Forum) by michelle1980 on 07-20-2009
Video clip of student displaying concealed weapons

I previously submitted a PPT on Concealed Weapons, then found that this clip was not playing properly.

Posted to Share a File (FileGallery) by Vicki Bailey on 02-10-2009
New Radio Show— The Pew Public Safety Performance Project

The program ( http://media.csosa.gov ) features an interview with Adam Gelb. Adam directs the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, which works with more than a dozen states to advance fiscally sound, data driven policies in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Leonard Sipes on 12-18-2008
Correctional Ministry Outreach

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...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by kenneth.varney on 10-10-2008

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