2019 ACA Boston Program Book_149th Congress of Correction

with examples of how individuals join gangs in Virginia and on the east coast; participants will be able to identify ways and methods gang members influence society from prison; and to provide a basic overview of common gang slang/code terms used by gang and security threat group (STG) members. Moderator: Michael Duke, Statewide Gang/ STG Coordinator, Virginia Department of Corrections, Richmond, Virginia Speaker: Michael Duke, Statewide Gang/ STG Coordinator, Virginia Department of Corrections, Richmond, Virginia This workshop will describe an organized system of reentry services that have been developed to enhance the returning citizen’s successful reintegration back to society. The model will be presented from the enhanced programming offered in the institution to the use of post-release services. The workshop is designed to enhance the participant’s knowledge of the importance of providing integrated services to individuals with a seamless flow of information and treatment from the prison to the community. Participants will learn the importance of instructing all staff, including security staff, on the Core Correctional Practices Model and Motivational Interviewing so that the prison as a system uses a best-practices model. Objectives: Define a seamless continuum of care model that works from incarceration to the community; discuss how evidence-based methods can be incorporated into a prison through enhancements of staff training, quality assurance and aftercare; and learn how to integrate in-prison services with an effective aftercare model. Moderator: David Burch, Divisional Vice President, GEO Care, Boca Raton, Florida Speakers: Matthew Abraham, Psy.D., Director of Programs/GEO Group Reentry Services Division, GEO Care, Boca Raton, Florida; A-2G Providing a Seamless Reentry System: From Prison to the Community Using the GEO Continuum of Care Model Room 203

A-2E At the Intersection of Mental Health Treatment and Spirituality: A Productive

Partnership? (CE/CME) Room 308

Numerous articles in Corrections Today and other literature have focused on the challenge of mental illness in correctional settings. Other articles have highlighted the role that religion and spirituality may play in healthy recovery. This workshop will focus on the intersection of these two disciplines — mental health and spirituality — in the lives of inmates. To what extent is collaboration possible in bringing about wholeness, peace and health in inmates’ lives? The speakers will provide some real-time exercises to help participants understand mental illness and recovery. They will also offer case studies which illustrate how religion and spirituality appear to have been helpful to inmates. Objectives: Participants will be able to briefly review the literature on the challenge of mental illness in correctional settings; review the intrapersonal dynamic of religion and spirituality programs on inmates; and demonstrate, by case studies, how these two have come together to promote the mental health of incarcerated persons. Moderator: John D. Tomandl, President of the American Correctional Chaplains Association, Auburn, New York Speakers: Vance L. Drum, D. Min., Peer Ministry Coordinator, Global Prison Seminaries Foundation, Crockett, Texas; Nancy C. Kehoe, RSCJ, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Saturday, Aug. 3 t 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

Workshops

A-2F Gangs in Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC)

Room 201 This workshop will show the most prominent gangs in Virginia. The presentation will cover the mentality, dress, language, gang colors, gang signs and other identifying characteristics of gang membership. Objectives: Participants will be provided

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