What You Believe Matters: Creating Hope and Resilience in Arizona Community Corrections

SESSION INFO

Monday, July 30, 2018
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Session Type: Workshop

Criminal justice practitioners and clients must learn to collaborate in a partnership, to cultivate positive change, hope, resilience, and safer communities. This means we, as the professionals, must agree that how we interact must change, that we must make a commitment to treat clients with dignity and respect while still having clear boundaries and rules. This approach liberates the officer and the client both. We must also believe a genuine partnership is possible--that we can work together to hold clients accountable for their behavior while continuing to view and treat each of these individuals as a fellow human being in whom we have a vested interest. The reentry programs being facilitated by Arizona Probation, Parole and Parole have been changing how community correction professionals do business in our state. Come see how probation and parole staff can work together to facilitate humanity and positive behavior change in Arizona justice-involved individuals.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Patricia Barnhart
Professor-Arizona State University, AZ Department of Corrections

Justin Benjamin
PPSII, Maricopa County Adult Probation

Summer Glenn
Probation/Pretrial Supervisor, Coconino County Adult Probation

Katherine Nisbet
Program Manager, AZ Department of Corrections