2021 ACA Nashville Program Book_151st Congress of Correction

Thursday

3:45–5:15 p.m.

B-4B What’s in Your Toolbox? Developing the Leader in You

Room 209B Track: Jails

B-4A Intelligent Risk-Taking — The Great Wardens Project Room 209A Track: Prisons The Great Wardens Project, an initiative by Just Detention International, aims to help wardens and superintendents create safer facilities, where every person in custody can serve time without fear of violence and abuse. The session will review data collected from a national survey of NAAWS members and highlight resources that will be developed through the project to address the needs respondents identified to help them grow as leaders and to change facility cultures. The session presenters are members of the project’s Task Force who will share the ways they stimulated culture change in their facilities and how they will support their peers across the nation through this project. Learning Objectives: • Understand the goals of the Great Wardens Project and achievements to date. • Understand the challenges wardens and superintendents identified in a national survey, as well as the resources and support they believe will help them flourish as leaders. • Be inspired to think creatively about how to grow as champions for culture change in their own facilities. Moderator: Jessica Seipel , Program Director, Just Detention International, Los Angeles, California Speakers: Eric Aldridge , Warden, Virginia Department of Corrections, Troy, Virginia; Dawn Davison (retired), Rancho Cordova, California; Lisa Engram , Warden, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Columbia, South Carolina

This workshop will assist the participant with leadership development skills to work more effectively with organizational teams. This session will generate ideas for developing and improving individual personal/professional progression. In addition, it will introduce a variety of activities that will enhance team building. Learning Objectives: • Participant will be able to plan for professional growth. • Participant will be able to assess leadership goals. • Participant will be able to examine the power of teamwork. Moderator: Erica McKeithan , Captain, Hampton Sheriff’s Office, Hampton, Virginia Speakers: Karen Bowden , Undersheriff, Hampton Sheriff’s Office, Hampton, Virginia; Erica McKeithan , Captain, Hampton Sheriff’s Office, Hampton, Virginia B-4C Thinking Outside the Box: Ways to Safely Reduce Youth Room Confinement Room 207D Track: Juveniles A growing body of research and experience supports alternatives to punitive approaches of managing youth behavior. Facilities across the country have made significant reforms in youth detention and corrections practices, including reducing reliance on room confinement. The Center for Children’s Law and Policy, the Justice Policy Institute, the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University and the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators have partnered to create a new resource that documents promising approaches used by several agencies to reduce room confinement while maintaining staff and youth safety. The report will be released in January and will feature specific examples based on extensive interviews with staff and administrators.

Workshops

Thursday, Aug. 12 t 3:45–5:15 p.m.

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