2021 ACA Nashville Program Book_151st Congress of Correction

the system of care, challenges posed to facility personnel and strategies designed to ensure a safe environment in secure facilities. This workshop will also focus on risk reduction programming, prevention efforts and prosocial connections that have the broadest impact in reducing factors that encourage youth to • Understand the challenges gang-affiliated youth pose to security management and staffing. • Identify techniques and tools Georgia DJJ used to identify, monitor and classify gang affiliated youth. • Understand best practices juvenile justice facilities can implement to include the use of evidence-based programming to address gang-affiliated and at-risk youth. Moderator: Susan L. Miller , Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Decatur, Georgia Speakers: Margaret Cawood , Deputy Commissioner, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Decatur, Georgia; Ray Ham , Security Risk Group Coordinator, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Decatur, Georgia; Keith Wynn , Director, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Decatur, Georgia B-3D From Life Sentences to Life on the Outside: How Peer Mentorship Advances Successful Reentry of Long-Termers Room 207B Track: Reentry/Community Corrections In recent years, Louisiana has enacted justice reforms that included allowing some individuals serving life or extreme sentences to be considered for early release. Part of these reforms also included reinvesting savings through community grants to nonprofit organizations. Louisiana Parole Project, a nonprofit that employs formerly incarcerated leaders, became a grantee tasked with providing case management and reentry support services to men and women who had served long prison sentences. Parole Project’s work is providing evidence that its clients, most of whom were convicted of violent offenses and become gang involved. Learning Objectives:

served twenty years or more in prison, can be successfully reintegrated into the community while having positive effects on public safety. Learning Objectives: • Understand how formerly incarcerated leaders are serving as models of success for men and women released from prison. • Understand how corrections professionals can partner with formerly incarcerated persons to achieve successful reentry outcomes. • Identify effective programming and services that support the unique needs of individuals who have served long prison sentences. Moderator: Mary Livers , Consultant Retired, Louisiana Department of Juvenile Justice, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Speakers: Andrew Hundley , Louisiana Parole Project, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Natalie Laborde , Louisiana Department of Corrections, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; James M. LeBlanc , Louisiana Department of Corrections, Baton Rouge, Louisiana B-3E Mass Testing and Treatment for HCV Across an Entire Statewide Correction Population (CE-RN, CME) Room 207C Track: Treatment Connecticut Department of Correction (CT DOC) planned, designed, costed and executed a testing and treatment regimen for HCV across the entire statewide correctional population. This included an opt-out mass screening offered to all inmates, development of a clinical confirmation and staging algorithm based off serology and subsequent treatment of all infected inmates with direct acting anti-virals. To the best of our knowledge, CT DOC has been the only state to conduct such testing and treatment on a large scale. Learning Objectives: • Participants will be able to plan mass screening events for HCV. • Participants will be able to implement a screening, testing and treatment across an entire state Correctional Agency. • Participants will be able to utilize serology

Workshops Thursday, Aug. 12 t 2–3:30 p.m.

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