Hosted by North Carolina DOC: Raleigh Women's Prison
March 12-16, 2012
 
Applications are currently being accepted for agency/facility teams of three. The agency should select the three participants and notify CSP Evelyn Bush at e1bush@bop.gov prior to submitting an application at www.nic.learn.com
 
Course Description: The needs of women in a correctional setting pose unique challenges to implementing operational practices that may have been designed without their gender differences in mind. While some operations may apply broadly to the handling of all types of inmates, other operations need to be tailored to the unique medical, social, and legal needs of women inmates. Communication techniques for working with women also change.
 
In addition to receiving traditional classroom instruction, participants in Operational Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons will explore the operation of a women’s facility and analyze operations from a gender-informed perspective. The curriculum is focused on contemporary research, which supports a management/operational style that recognizes gender differences. Module topics may include legal issues, communication, women’s pathways to prison, gender-responsive principles, and staff sexual misconduct.
 
Eligibility Requirements: Managers and leaders who influence policy or work in direct supervision of women offenders are encouraged to apply. Trainers in preparation for agency training on the same topic and multidisciplinary management staff may also apply. States may apply to host this program on or near their women's facility, where visiting participants will be able to view various operations.

Learn the tools, strategies, and techniques that will allow corrections staff, mental health service providers, and advocates to work together to develop and implement a crisis intervention team (CIT). CITs help reduce crisis situations, improve safety, and promote better outcomes for persons with mental illness. 

About the Training
Participant teams attending this training will learn the core elements of a locally developed and owned CIT for managing mental illness in prisons, jails, and community corrections. Teams will learn how to develop collaborative partnerships and implement a CIT model that takes a team approach engaging community stakeholders, including corrections agencies, local mental health agencies, family advocacy groups, and others.

Participants will also learn how to defend a CIT’s effectiveness in enhancing correctional staff’s knowledge and skills, aiding administrators in improved management and care for a special population, reducing liability and cost, improving community partnerships for increased access to resources and supports, and increasing safety for all. Overall, this training program focuses on building an agency’s capacity to implement a locally owned and administered CIT program and the training for that program.  Click here for a flyer with more training and registration information.

March 12 - 15, 2012 - Apply by December 19, 2011.
July 16 - 19, 2011 - Apply by April 16, 2012.

The International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) is a membership organization for all those involved or interested in effective, humane, efficient and appropriate corrections - whether in institutions or the community.  ICPA Staff Training Platform at http://www.icpa-training.com/ is a platform on the training of prison officers with the purpose to gather and structure information on training courses around the world in order to share good practices and experiences and to make sure that training centres are not reinventing the wheel when starting up a training course or enhancing their existing training course for prison officers. On this platform you can also find reference material, including planning guides, pictures, international standards, publications, good practices and links to relevant organizations.

In the International Criminal Justice Event Calendar http://crimeday.net/month.php are links to criminal justice agencies and facts from the nations of our world as well as treaties relevant to international criminal justice.