2020 ACA San Diego Program Book_Winter Conference

two new pre-booking intercept points to reduce the number of persons with mental illness who are arrested for low-level, non-violent offenses. Discussion of key program components will allow the model to be replicated in other jurisdictions. Presenters will discuss 1) Developing partnerships and buy-in from law enforcement; 2) Identifying target population; 3) Service array and aftercare; 4) Funding; 5) Outcomes. Learning Objectives: • Identify potential mental health jail diversion eligibility (law enforcement perspective). • Develop potential service array for persons with mental illness who are diverted. • Learn strategies to form collaborative partnerships with stakeholders. Moderator: April Zamora , M.Ed., LCDC, Division Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Reentry and Integration Division/Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and Mental Illness, Austin, Texas Speakers: Denise Oncken , JD, Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Houston, Texas; Wayne Young , MBA, LPC, FACHE, The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, Houston, Texas Room 9 Studies show correctional staff have as much PTSD as Veterans of War, and it has a huge detrimental impact on staff health. Effective tools for managing stress, as well as programing to reduce violence in correctional settings is needed at every level of corrections. The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) - Prison Program/Prison SMART is a BOP evidence-based stress and anger management program that is unlike any other. Some have called it the “missing piece” in corrections programming. The IAHV Staff & Inmate Programs teach innovative and powerful breathing meditation techniques that reduces C-2C Preventions for Corrections: Frontlining Stress & Illness Prevention (CE)

stress and anger and allows the participants to manage their emotions effectively. Benefits include reductions in stress and trauma, increased self-esteem, and normalized sleep patterns. The purpose of this workshop is to bring awareness of the unique emotional and practice conflicts faced by nurses caring for patients facing life sentences. Learning Objectives: • Identify the negative effects of stress on their lives and the lives of others. • Identify three areas of their life where they can implement stress management tools. • Experience simple beginning breathing & meditation exercises. Moderator: Kristen Dauss , MD, Chief Medical Officer, Indiana Department of Correction, Indianapolis, Indiana Speaker: Gabriella Savelli , International Director, International Association for Human Values, Washington, D.C. Paradigm Room 1B What can be done to make prisons places of positive personal development instead of seedbeds for further crime? Too many prisons are negative, violent places, creating an environment for unhealthy activity, antisocial attitudes, and a more a damaged person upon release. This workshop will address four points: 1) Profile of the modern American inmate; 2) Constitutional and legal requirements of chaplaincy; 3) The need for positive character development in inmates; and 4) Best practices in the Prison Seminary Model: What works for safer prisons, moral rehabilitation, prison culture transformation, and reduced recidivism. Learning Objectives: • Identifying generalized characteristics of modern prison inmates, especially in the U.S. C-2D Effective Correctional Chaplaincy for the 21 st Century: The New Prison Seminary

Workshops

Monday, Jan. 13 t 4–5:30 p.m.

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