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Virtual Training Opportunities
Join APPA for the latest virtual training opportunities available to community corrections professionals! Within this portal, you will discover valuable and relevant training experiences sourced from evidence-based practices, front-line staff, subject matter experts, and leaders in the field.
Tailor your learning journey to your schedule through a variety of live and on-demand webinars as well as self-paced E-learning courses.
EARN continued education units (CEUs) | NETWORK with decision-makers | GROW your professional skills.
WEBINAR OFFERINGS
E-LEARNING COURSES
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ABOUT OUR WEBINAR PROGRAM
As a member of this community, we value your time and budgetary needs. This program is designed for you to access affordable and exclusive APPA webinars that cover a range of topics from best practices and current trends to emerging research and policies in the field. Expect to receive resource handouts, live audience interaction, updates from APPA committees, new grant initiatives, and so much more.
SUBMIT A WEBINAR PROPOSAL
Do you have a topic or training you would like to present using the APPA platform? We invite community corrections professionals to contribute to this program by submitting webinar proposals using our new submission process, where all pertinent information will be gathered, including potential dates.
For detailed instructions, please refer to the Webinar Proposal Guide.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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If you would like to purchase multiple seats for your team to a webinar, please contact Joshua Nelsen.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Check out our latest scheduled webinars below.
When
Thursday, July 10th | 1:00PM - 2:00 PM ET | 1 Hour
Cost
FREE
Presenter
James Czarniak
CEO - Brightpath Strategies, LLC
Hasan Stephens
CEO, Founder - Good Life Foundation
Description
In today’s community corrections environment, professionals often face situations where progress depends on working with individuals or groups holding opposing viewpoints—whether within agencies, across systems, or with community stakeholders. Traditional approaches to conflict can stall reform, hinder innovation, and impact outcomes for justice-involved individuals.
This webinar, "Collaborating with Opponents: Transforming Conflict into Progress," introduces a practical framework designed to help probation, parole, and community corrections professionals navigate opposition and leverage it for system improvement. Participants will explore real-world strategies to engage productively with dissenting voices—whether they are colleagues resistant to change, external partners with competing priorities, or community members skeptical of system intentions.
FEATURED TRAINING
Featured Training Opportunity – Save 50% off today and earn CEUs
Available Now!
Cost
$15, until the next featured training is live then the cost will increase to $30.
Duration
59 Minutes
CEUs
1 APPA Contact Hour. The registrant will be able to download their certificate of completion after they have completed the recording.
Presenter:
Christopher Poulos -
Executive Director - Washington State Reentry Council
Description:Attorney Christopher Poulos shares his personal and professional path from trauma, addiction, homelessness, and prison to college, law school, serving in the White House, and becoming a senior state government corrections and reentry executive. Poulos’s talk weaves between personal experiences and the larger policy and practice issues involving pretrial, incarceration, and community supervision. He will share about the importance of support and accountability versus only surveillance and punishment and the vital role probation officers and other justice stakeholders can have in helping people positively redirect their lives.
Watch this pre-recorded, on-demand training to earn 1 APPA Contact Hour!
RECENT WEBINARS
Directly and through various federally and privately funded initiatives, APPA provides webinars on a range of topics.
Purchase $30 ON-DEMAND
Presenter:
Sonya Brown -
Social Work Program Administrator - North Carolina Department of Public Safety
Karen Buck -
Evidence Based Practice Administrator, North Carolina Department of Public Safety
Gary S. Cuddeback -
Professor - Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrea Murray-Lichtman -
Clinical Associate Professor - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Description:Individuals with serious mental illnesses on probation and parole have complex needs, elevated criminogenic risks, and present challenges to the probation/parole officers who supervise them. In collaboration with the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety has innovated special programs and initiatives to equip probation and parole officers with the skills and tools needed to optimize criminal justice and mental health outcomes for mentally ill people under supervision. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about these programs and initiatives and gain hands-on experience with: our mental health training modules for officers; our brief assessments of mental health and social determinants of health; our decision tools and worksheets; our strategies used to facilitate consultation between mental health professionals and officers; and our lessons learned regarding the implementation and evaluation of specialty mental health probation.
Watch this pre-recorded, on-demand training to earn 1.5 APPA Contact Hours! This training is also eligible for Changing Offender Behavior (COB) credit.
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Presenter
Phil Galli -
Director - Justice Support Services, St. Croix County (WI)
Shawn Trusten -
Co-creator - Core 4 Social Supports Toolkit
Description:
Social support can help insulate individuals from negative life events such as crime involvement and other poor outcomes. While support is unlikely to eliminate negative outcomes, such as crime, it can help to buffer against these events. The Core Four is a model which considers the four types of social support (instrumental, expressive, received, perceived) and how discussions surrounding their implementation can be built into case management and planning. Topics discussed will include a history of social support in working with justice-impacted persons, the use of surveying to identify areas of need, and case planning. Policy implications include recommendations for programming in each of these four areas.
Purchase $30 ON-DEMAND
Presenter:
Chef Jeff Henderson -
Chef - The Henderson Group
Description:
Known around the country for his dynamic and life-changing best practices, he illuminates probation and parole officers with proven, high-impact strategies that empower change, inspire fulfillment, and help them better inspire those on the caseloads they manage.
A southern California native, Jeff started his groundbreaking culinary career in the unlikeliest of places – federal prison. While serving nearly 10 years, he would discover a previously untapped passion for the art of cooking after fortuitously landing a job as a cook while behind bars. Using prison as a catalyst for self-transformation, he was released in 1996 and worked his way up from a dishwasher to a cook, and then executive chef of the former Café Bellagio in Las Vegas.
When Jeff is not traveling the country teaching his life-changing lessons, he resides in Las Vegas with his wife Stacy and their five children.
Purchase $30 ON-DEMAND
Presenter:
Antonio Smith -
Lead Facilitator - Clean Enterprises
Calvin Burnett -
Lead Facilitator - Burnett Consultant Enterprise
Sean Ross -
Lead Facilitator - Professional Consulting Associates
Description:
Leaders, and aspiring leaders, in corrections will be motivated, inspired and strongly encouraged to enhance their professional mindset, and foster an atmosphere of increased leadership and accountability to their staff, organization and the men and women they serve. This session will identify and examine the 5 "must have" competencies that every leader in corrections should develop and demonstrate to increase effectiveness and efficiency in their people, processes and systems!
Disclaimer: The American Probation and Parole Association hosts webinars for educational purposes only and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained. Furthermore, the information is subject to change without notice. APPA encourages all users to confirm any information obtained from this webinar.
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ABOUT OUR E-LEARNING COURSES
Looking for additional professional development growth opportunities? Explore our self-guided E-learning courses! APPA partners with Relias to provide training, at special discounted rates, to both individual and agency members. Relias has helped more than 11,000 organizations across the continuum of care to improve compliance standards, staff development, and promote consistent, high-quality care to their clientele. Its platform employs performance metrics and assessments to reveal specific skill gaps and address them with targeted, personalized, and engaged learning. Learn more at Relias website.
TAILORED LEARNING FOR AGENCIES
Use Relias’s LMS (Learning Management System) as a solution to help automate, manage, and track your agency’s training and career development needs. LMS services include: assigning curriculum, completing regulatory training, providing continued education opportunities, adhering to compliance standards, and producing reports for auditors.
Learn How Relias Can Help Your Agency
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If you have any additional questions for the APPA Professional Development Team,
please contact Joshua Nelsen.
Joshua Nelsen, M.A.
Professional Development Manager
(859) 244-8236
email
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