2018

Texas Conference Presentations

• Bexar County Mental Health Systems Assessment (handout) – Mike Lozito & Gilbert Gonzales
• A Community’s Approach to Behavioral Health, Criminal Justice and the Path to Improve it All – Mike Lozito & Gilbert Gonzales
• Bexar County High Utilizer/Homeless Healthcare Analysis: Southwest Texas Crisis Collaborative
• How the USA Can Deliver 50% Fewer Homicides and Rapes by 2030: Science and Secrets– Irvin Waller
• Opportunity for Innovation Throughout the Sequential Intercept Model – Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Amanda Mathias & B. J. Wagner
• Restorative Justice Philosophy: Application with Reentry Processes – Dr. Michael J. Gilbert
• Restorative Justice: A Relational Approach to Reentry – Robert Rico
• Assessment and Case Formulation – Dr. Raymond Chip Tafrate
• Identifying and Restructuring Criminogenic Thinking – Dr. Raymond Chip Tafrate
• Equity & Inclusion: Adult Drug Court Best Practices Standard II – Carolyn Hardin
• Leading Adaptive Change in Community Corrections: Making Yourself and Your Agency More Nimble, Agile and Effective – Brad Bogue, MA
• Engaging Complex Correctional Clients Best Practices – Heather Kerr, MSW, RSW
• Wasting Lives and Money: Better Ways to Handle People with Serious Mental Illness in the Justice System – Dr. Joel A. Dvoskin
• Drug Court Airlines: Piloting Programs for Client Success – Melissa Monahan, LPC and Georgette McNally, LAC of the Maricopa County Drug Court Counseling Program

2017

Seattle Conference Presentations

• A Few Miles East: Counties Approaches to Opiate Epidemic – Pamela Lynch, Shaun Anchak

• The Neuro-Physiology of “Talk” Creating Transformative Interactions with Girls and Women Using Trauma and Resiliency Informed Communication – Alyssa Benedict, Marilyn Van Dieten

• Safe Reentry: Implementing an Opiate Overdose Prevention Program – Jac Charlier, Amanda Auerbach

• Research and Implementation of Evidence-based Practices in Community Corrections – Anne Connell-Freund, Donald Evans

• Evidence Based Employment Programming: Rockville’s Individual Placement and Support Model – Handout – Lisa Floyd, Melodie Pazolt

• Reducing Recidivism and Homelessness: Centering Prisoner Reentry within Safe, Secure and Affordable Housing — Faith Lutze

• Research and Implementation of Evidence-based Practices in Community Corrections in ASEAN Countries and North America — Fumiko Akashi

• Canada’s Opioid Crisis: Tackling A Major Health Issue Through a Correctional Lens-Emerging Policy and Best Practices — Heather Kerr

• Opioid use disorder and overdose in the criminal justice system – Ingrid Binswanger

• Overcoming Obstacles to Securing Employment and Housing Post-Incarceration — Donald Evans, Jaime Tilst

• Implementing effective opioid and addiction treatment in criminal justice populations – Joshua D Lee

• Realizing the Potential of Integrating Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Correctional Systems: Clinical Issues & System Barriers – Lara Strick

• Seattle and King County Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force Process & Recommendations – Caleb Banta Green

• Relapse Prevention Therapy in Correctional Practice: A State-of-the-Art Review — George Parks

• Stepping Up: Reducing the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jails – Richard Cho

• Graduated Reintegration Putting Policy into Practice – Sandy Mullins

• Shifting Your Lens to Career Pathway Employment – Handout– Jerry Butler, Harry Alston, Arthur Bishop, David Gianfrancesco

 

• 6 Pillars Slide – Jessica Nickel

• Policy and Practice Challenges in Canada – Donald G Evans

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) – Jennie Simpson

• Mental Health and Corrections – Heather Lumley

• Canada’s Opioid Crisis – Heather Kerr

• Reframing Criminal Justice – Jessica Nickel

• BJA Justice Systems Portfolio – Ruby Qazilbash

 

2016

Toronto Conference Presentations

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy:Strategies and Skills  – Lyndsey Davies

• Intimacy of Addiction: Understanding the Paths to Recovery – Randy Shively & Leo Petrilli

• The John Howard Society of Toronto’s Reintegration Centre: Providing Reintegration Support and Services for Toronto South Detention Centre Releasees in South Etobicoke – William O’Grady

• Preventing the Transition From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime – David Farrington

• Attachment Trauma and Human Development – Jacqui Linder

• The Psychology of Human Trafficking – Jacqui Linder

• Recent Research Findings on Probation and Parole Agent Strategies to Support Women’s Desistance – Merry Morash

• Georgia’s Max-Out Reentry Program – Scott Maurer & Barbara Neville

• Marginalized & Underserviced: Bolstering Continuity of Care for Criminalized Populations – Sunny Dhillion & Graham Brown

• The Code of the Streets as a Pathway to Dissociative Homicide: Exploring the Criminal Case of R. v. Husbands (The Eaton Centre Shooting) – Julian Gojer & Adam Ellis

• Transforming Justice: Healing Survivors, Perpetrators, and Their Communities with New Responses to Sexual Violence – Alisa Klein

• Risk, Needs and Strengths of Aboriginal Offenders in Alberta – Part 1 – Tanya Myers & David Robinson

• Risk, Needs and Strengths of Aboriginal Offenders in Alberta – Part 2 – Tanya Myers & David Robinson

• The Implications of Social History Variables, Ethnic Ancestry, and Social Determinants in the Health and Case Management of Canadian Offenders – Dena Derkzen, Leslie Anne Keown & Lynn Stewart

• ReThinking UnEmployment – Focusing on Effective Employment Strategies – Elizabeth Fabiano & Korri McCourt

• Volunteer Probation Officers in Japan and ASEAN countries – Fumiko Akashi & Hiroyuki Watanabe

• Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Framework – Ida Dickie, Mariya Tarshish & Lauren Kaplan

• Evidence-Based Practice and Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Corrections: Definitions, Debates and Potential Pathways – Jeffrey Pfeifer

• Safer Foundation Transforming Lives for People with Arrest or Conviction Records – Victor Dickson, Sodiqa Williams & Harry Alston

• Training and Developing the Millennial Corrections Workforce – Jacob Sadon

• China Beilun Mode of Community Correction – Junhao Chen

• How Global Exchanges Work – Kevin Downey

• Look Up and Hope – Shannon Schumacher & Rachel Halleck

• Electronic Monitoring: Making The Most Of A Promising Supervision Tool – Stephanie Fahy & Karla Sainju

 

2015

Boston Conference Presentations

• Closing the Revolving Door – Martha Lyman

• Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Offenders Seeking Employment – Jodi Sleyo

• Diversity and Behavior Change – Examining and Overcoming Diversity as a Responsivity Factor – Jacob Sadon

• Enhancing the Cognitive Skills of Young Adult Offenders Through Gamification Theory and Practice – Jeffrey Pfeifer

• Evidence Based Practices Implementation – Ty Croker Handout

• Evolving and Strengthening Agency Cultures for Sustainable Program Implementation – Ty Croker Part 1

• Introduction to Safer Foundation’s Demand Skills Collaborative – Jerry Butler and David Gianfrancesco

• It’s His Life, Her Life,not My Life -The Good Lives Model in Community Corrections – Gwenda Willis – Plenary

• Predicting Release Outcome Using the Road – Release Outcome Appraisal Device – George Stones

• The FUSE Model of Supportive Housing Evidence from the Field Demonstrates Cross System Approach Works to Reduce Recidivism and Improve Lives – Kim Keaton & Stacy M. Lowry

• The Good Lives Model Part 1 – From Theory to Practice in Community Corrections – Gwenda Willis & David S. Prescott

• The Good Lives Model Part 2 – Treatment applications – Gwenda Willis & David S. Prescott

• Transformative Strategies to Enhance Our Work with Justice – Involved Females – Alyssa Benedict, Erica King & Marilyn Van Dieten

• Turning Bold Ideas Into Concrete Results – Developing the Support Structures Necessary to Successfully Implement New Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policies – Melissa Threadgill & Tessa Upin

• Veterans in the Justice System – Amanda List & Jennifer Wolfe

• Women in Re-entry Treatment Issues – Randy Shively

• Working with Complex Clients Reflecting trauma, mental health issues and substance use through your correctional lens. – Heather Kerr

 

 

2014

Cleveland Conference Presentations

• The Role of Corrections in Development: Lessons from Here, There and Elsewhere – Uju Agomoh PhD

• Trauma-Informed Practices in Community Corrections: Essential Skills that Promote Safety and Success with Justice-Involved Men and Women – Alyssa Benedict

• Motivational Interviewing in Community Corrections – William R. Miller, Ph.D.

• Is Low Therapist Empathy Toxic? – Theresa B. Moyers and William R. Miller

• Motivational Interviewing – Bill Wilson

• Moving Community Supervision Forward: Implementation of Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) – Cara Thompson & Sara Shields

• Forensic CBT:An Innovative Training Program for Community Corrections Practitioners – Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D 

• LGBTI Populations – Their Safety, Your Responsibility – Erica King

• Recidivism Risk Assessment: How Are We Doing and Where Are We Going? – Jay P. Singh, PhD

• How to Ensure Fidelity in Group Interventions – Continuous Quality Improvement – Jodi Sleyo

• Brain-Based Rehab – John B. Arden, PhD

• JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA)

• The Role of Practitioner – Driven Science – Kimberly Gentry Sperber, PH.D.

• The Missing Peace – Self Care in the Context of our Work – Lorraine Robinson

• RESEARCH SAYS….Best Practices in assessment, management and treatment of impaired Drivers – Mark Stodola

• Probation/Parole Officer Relationship Style and Communication Patterns as Influences on Outcomes for Women Offenders – Merry Morash, Ph.D, Jennifer Cobbina, Ph.D, Sandi Smith, Ph.D & Deborah Kashy, Ph.D

• Motivational Interviewing: Application, Implementation & Sustainability in Community Corrections – Michael Clark

• The Vision of an Integrated and Seamless Gender – Responsive Assessment and Case Management Process – Patricia Van Voorhis

• Using Dynamic Risk Assessment to Understand Case Planning & Risk Management in Community Supervision – Ralph C. Serin, Caleb D. Lloyd, Laura J. Hanby, Nick Chadwick, and Lettie Prell

• The Importance of Relationships in Working with Clients: From Residential to Day Reporting – Randy Shively & Don Evans

• International Cooperation in Youth Criminal Justice Reform: The Experience of the Ukraine Juvenile Justice Reform Project – Sandra Prokopiw

• MAPIT – A Web-­Based Tool Addressing Treatment Motivation and Related Behaviors – Scott Walters & Faye Taxman

• Creating a Service Culture – Aligning Evidence Based and Innovative Practices – Shawn Smith

• Implementing Functional Family Therapy (FFT) the “real world”: Keys to Supporting Successful FFT Community Implmentation – Thomas Sexton, Ph.D., Karen Lippmann & Tom Rhodes

 

2013

• Evidence of the importance of probation officers being agents of change The STICS Project by Guy Bourgon

• 2013 National Institute of Corrections Evidence Based Decision Making Panel

• ICCA-Dynamic Risk and Desistance 2013

• ICCA Presentation on RHO Sept 2013 9 6 13 Final without Notes 

• Soaring 2 ICCA FINAL 2013

• Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities 2013

• Release Decision-Making ICCA 2013 Guevara Gobeil 

• Importance of Therapeutic Alliance: Responsivity Issues in a Clinical Culture 

• Evidence-Based Policy Options that Reduce Crime and Save Money by Steve Aos

• Building A Lasting Collaboration by Couzens and Aungst

• The Affordable Care Act and Implications for the Criminal Justice Populations by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office

• Behavioral Health is Essential to Health, Prevention Works and Treatment is Effective by SAMHSA

 

2012

• A Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Substance Abuse Treatment (Shively)

• What Matters in Offender Supervision (Trotter)

• Reducing Barriers to Effectiveness (Osterman, Thomas)

• FL Ready-to-Work as Approach to Workplace Readiness (Sneed, Astern, Brown)

• Using Recidivism Data to Improve Correction Practice (Sperber, Hauck, Bower)

• Empowerment and Increased Resilience as an Antidote to Trauma (Robinson)

• Research on Risky Decision-Making in Community Corrections (Nagy)

• The Evolving Field of Restorative Justice (Stauffer)

• Decision Support Tools to Enhance RNR (Brennan)

• Female Offenders: What Are They In Search Of? (Mims)

• Moving from Principle to Execution (Sperber)

• Circles of Accountability and Re-entry (Brown, Wilson, McWhinnie)

• Implementing the Correctional Communication Model (Vogelvang, Bogue)

• Evidence-Based Correctional Drug and Alcohol Evaluations (Fretz)

• Canadian Women Offenders Sectors (Wells)

• Gathering Evidence for Your Evidence-Based Practice (Cone)

• Criminal Justice Veterans Initiative (Zawacki)

• Tight Budget, No Problem! Program Evaluation is Possible (Webber)