ASCA Committee Chairs and Members
While each jurisdiction represented in our Association has its own unique characteristics and issues, all of our member agencies share more in common about their work than that which is different. In ASCA, united members can do more to advance the corrections progress than each one alone.
Click here for Current ASCA Committee Chairs and Members updated January 25, 2012.
ASCA Committees
The Racial Disparity Committee examines correctional current policies and practices that generate racial disparities; promotes promising practices for eliminating racial disparity within our systems; and actively advocates to influence policies that produce racial disparities within the correctional system and to suggest solutions that my eliminate these disparities.
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Click to link to the Racial Disparity Committee's Mission Statement.
The Executive Committee, composed of four ASCA officers and four regional representatives, directs the Association’s functions and activities, including management of committees, contracts, fiscal affairs, grants, special projects, and external relationships with the federal government, special commissions, national associations and foundations.
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The Program and Training Committee designs and develops trainings/programs that are 1) relevant to the membership’s current needs for specific information, 2) enriched by the research and study of experts and the experiential wisdom of fellow members who are dealing successfully with challenging issues, and 3) tailored for new and experienced members.
Click here to link to the Program and Training Committee member list updated January 3, 2012.
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The Past Presidents' Committee provides the opportunity for former presidents of ASCA to contribute their experience and knowledge for the betterment of the Association, to formally acknowledge the contributions of former members, and to encourage higher education to the children of correctional employees through the awarding of the Susan M. Hunter Scholarships.
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On January 17, 1989, Mike Francke, then Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, was murdered as he left his office in Salem. In the summer of 1991, a former Oregon inmate was convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1992, ASCA established the Michael Francke Award, an annual award to recognize an outstanding ASCA member and that member's dedication to corrections. The award serves to celebrate Michael Francke's contribution to the field and his support of ASCA.
The Substance Abuse Committee was established to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and current initiatives regarding substance abuse treatment and services. Substance abuse is the leading cause of increasing prison populations and specifically female prison populations. The Committee will focus on prevention, alternatives and best practices with limited resources.
Specific goals include:
- Identification of good, evidence-based best practices;
- Collaboration with Federal partners such as NIC, SAMHSA, NASMHPD and BJA;
- Advocacy for both preventative and community-based alternatives; and
- Collaboration with state and local partners such as state mental health directors and state substance abuse directors.
Click to link to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Committee member list.
Click to link to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Committee's Mission Statement.
Click to link to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Committee web page
The Performance Measures Committee uses Performance Based Measures System (PBMS) to define correctional standards in keeping with contemporary practice; to delineate measures of performance for each standard; to establish key indicators for each measure; to institute counting rules for each indicator; to store the measures on a web database; to produce reports of correctional performance; and to conduct appropriate comparisons of performance across jurisdictions.
Click here to link to the Performance Measures Committee member list updated January 3, 2012.
Click to link to the Performance Measures Committee's Mission Statement.
Click to link to the Performance Measures Committee web page
The ASCA Reentry and Community Corrections Committee works to identify and communicate best practices in reentry and community corrections. The work includes exchange of ideas that prepare inmates for release and building relationships with community resources to increase the successful integration of released inmates into the community and reduce the number of inmates who return to prison.
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ASCA is thirsty for research that will support or recommend modifications to out agencies' correctional practices. Since there is not an abundance of empirical research related to our practices, it is important that we not only search out any existing organizational and correctional research regarding effective ideas and practices that can be shared among our members, but that we also approach innovative ideas, programs, practices, and cutting edge correctional technologies with commitment to scientific study and evaluation.
Click here to link to the Research and Best Practices Committee member list updated January 3, 2012.
Click to link to the Research and Best Practices' Mission Statement.
The critical issues with which administrators struggle are matters of public policy, legislation, litigation, and special interest investigative groups and commissions. The Committee not only gathers and shares information concerning those issues, but also brings the concerns to ASCA members, often with recommendations, resolutions and or plans for addressing them.
Click here to link to the Policy, Resolution, Legislation and Legal Issues Committee member list updated January 3, 2012.
Click to link to the Policy, Resolution, Legislation and Legal Issues Committee's Mission Statement.
Click to link to the Policy, Resolutions, Legislation and Legal Issues Committee web page
The appoints the Nominating Committee to serve at her pleasure. The Committee normally meets every two years to establish a slate of officers for the following two years. Otherwise, the Committee meets when directed to do so by the President and in accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association.
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Under two grants from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, ASCA was afforded the wherewithal to increase online networking.
During the first grant, monies were provided to develop a Grants Network whereby ASCA agencies and ASCA federal partners who fund correctional projects could build relationships and share information about funding needs, funding opportunities, and project final reports. ASCA formed a Clearinghouse Committee made up of all chairs of ASCA committees to oversee how these goals could be met. Although there were a number of setbacks, the work has proceeded rapidly over the past two years. The project to develop a Grants Network online is nearing completion and ASCA is now looking for money to maintain the web pages.
The second grant, BJA's Byrne Grant, provided monies for developing functionality online on asca.net for the purposes of providing ready information about the work and projects of all ASCA committees, as well as functionality for interactively conducting business and developing work product that is valuable to ASCA and the corrections community as a whole.
Click here for a link to the Clearinghouse Committee member list updated January 3, 2012.
Committee Requests
Occasionally Members request to be removed from Committees for various reasons. If you would like to request to be removed from an ASCA Committee please send an email by clicking on this link. RemoveFromCommittee@asca.net