With funding and support from various federal and
private agencies, APPA periodically offers complimentary webinars designed to enhance
its constituents’ knowledge and skills for providing more
effective community-based corrections services. See below for
information on current topics and how to register for upcoming
webinar events. |
Free Webinar:
Culture and Community Supervision Webinar
Series: Investing in Tribal Culture: Why it is important for
probation officers
October 15, 2015 | 3:00-4:30pm ET
Webinar Description:
For probation officers
to be effective working with tribal members on supervision, they
should have basic knowledge, understanding, and appreciation for the
culture within which they are working and the culture of the
individuals on supervision. This may include tribal history,
language, beliefs, practices, and socioeconomic and other cultural
nuances of the tribal agency they are serving. Particularly for
probation officers that are non-tribal or are not members of the
tribe they are working for, making an effort to self-educate on
tribal factors can facilitate better communication with colleagues
as well as enhance working with individuals on supervision.
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss how being aware and educated about the culture of
individuals on supervision can improve the job performance of
probation officers.
- Discuss the challenges and barriers that may exist,
particularly for non-tribal probation officers, in learning
about tribal culture.
- Identify strategies probation officers working in American
Indian/Alaska Native communities can use to learn about the
culture of the tribe(s) they frequently work with.
Faculty:
Larry Scroggins, Court Administrator/Chief
Clerk, Quileute Tribal Court
Andrew R. Cannon,
Chair of Tribal Issues - APPA, Probation/Family Relations Officer,
Pre-Trial Intervention Specialist, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Kimberly Cobb,
Project Director, American Probation & Parole Association
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Free Webinar:
Culture and Community Supervision Webinar Series: Addressing Responsivity Issues for American Indian/Alaska Native Individuals on Community Supervision
November 19, 2015 | 3:00-4:30pm ET
Webinar Description:
The responsivity
principle suggests that an individuals’ characteristics affect how
they respond to treatment and interventions. Characteristics such as
learning style, personality, culture, gender, education level, etc.
should play an important part in choosing which services and
interventions a justice-involved individual is assigned to. In this
era where practitioners are encouraged to incorporate strategies and
practices that are “evidence-based,” we should be cautious not to
discount indigenous, tribal or culture-based interventions that
could work more effectively with AI/AN populations, even though they
have not been evaluated and labeled as “evidence-based.”
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Summarize what the research literature says we should be
doing with American Indian/Alaska Native individuals on
community supervision caseloads;
- Describe a new standard of measuring the effectiveness of
programs (deemed “Practice-Based Evidence”);
- Explain the results of a survey regarding general and
specific responsivity factors identified by PPOs as unique to
American Indian/Alaska Native individuals on community
supervision;
- Provide recommendations for administrators, policy makers,
and practitioners to ensure responsivity factors unique to
American Indian/Alaska Natives are incorporated into supervision
plans to improve their outcomes.
Faculty:
ADA Pecos Melton, President, American Indian
Development Associates, LLC
Brian Colgan,
Supervisory USPO, Phoenix Field Division
Adrienne Lindsey,
Research Specialist Senior, Center for Applied Behavioral Health
Policy, Arizona State University
Kimberly Cobb,
Project Director, American Probation & Parole Association
Federal Disclaimer:
These webinars are being presented with funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance under Cooperative Agreement
2012-IP-BX-K001. |
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