2021 ACA Nashville Program Book_151st Congress of Correction

This presentation includes building the framework by confronting challenges unique to corrections, culture shift and where we are heading into this post-pandemic future. We will demonstrate how to develop and implement curriculum, policies, enhanced communication and training opportunities for employees at every level. Learning Objectives: • Understand the challenges and develop solutions to build a Staff Wellness program in a large correctional organization. • Understand the importance of Staff Wellness Sustainability: Caring for the Caretakers and implement strategies to enhance resiliency. • Develop a framework for Culture Shift: Wellness Top/Down or Bottom/Top. Moderator: Chuck Mattmiller , Illinois Department of Corrections, Centralia, Illinois Speakers: Marcus Hardy , Illinois Department of Corrections, Joliet, Illinois; Chuck Mattmiller , Illinois Department of Corrections, Centralia, Illinois; Stephanie Rawlings , Illinois Department of Corrections, Springfield, Illinois D-4E COVID-19 Immunization Program, Challenges and Solutions (CE-RN, CE, CME, CERP) Room 207A Track: Treatment The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis, and due to congregate setting in prisons, it can be harder to contain than in the community. Effective vaccines are the real solution to achieve herd immunity and effectively contain transmission. Even though it is important for inmate patients to get vaccinated, it has been a real challenge in procuring the vaccines, learning about the procurement process, the storage and handling process as well as being an effective advocate for our patients as social media is filled with information and misinformation. In Mississippi, VitalCore HS, MDOC and

Mississippi Department of Health worked together to implement an operational plan with emphasis on education without encroaching on an inmate’s rights to accept or refuse the vaccine. This was immensely successful as more than 80% of inmates received the vaccine and we became one of the first prison systems in the nation to achieve herd immunity. Learning Objectives: • Participants will be able to assess the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. • Participants will be able to determine the facts and myths about COVID-19 vaccines. • Participants will be able to apply the importance of collaboration with Dept. of Health, training of correctional health care staff and education of patients for a successful vaccination program. Moderator: Gayle McGee , Director of Health Services, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Jackson, Mississippi Speakers: Burl Cain , M.S., Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Jackson, Mississippi; Kathy Hogue , M.B.A., BSN, RN-BC, Director of Operations, VitalCore Health Strategies, Walnut Grove, Mississippi; Raman Singh , M.D., Medical Director, VitalCore Health Strategies, Baton Rouge, Louisiana D-4F Alternatives to Restrictive Housing: Step-Down Programs — Creation and Implementation Sponsored by the Adult Corrections Committee Room 208A Area: Security The 5 th Edition standards of Adult Correctional Institutions addressing Restrictive Housing show continued evidence of the impact of long-term restrictive housing coupled with the need to reintegrate offenders from high security back into the general population or back into society has created a demonstrated need for deliberate programming of offenders prior to the release from restrictive housing/ administrative segregation/maximum custody.

Workshops Saturday, Aug. 14 t 3:30–5 p.m.

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