2022 ACA New Orleans Program Book_152nd Congress of Correction

3.Understand the programming components for the Security Threat Group Population, focusing on changes in Self-Identity. Moderator: Randy Sauls , Assistant Commissioner of Health Services, M.B.A., FACHE, Georgia Department of Corrections, Forsyth, Georgia Speakers: Derick McKinney , Statewide Security Threat Group Coordinator, Georgia Department of Corrections, Forsyth, Georgia; Randy Sauls , Assistant Commissioner of Health Services, M.B.A., FACHE, Georgia Department of Corrections, Forsyth, Georgia; Joshua Thomas , Evidence-Based B-2B Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal In Jails: A Tool for Jail Administrators, Corrections Officers and Jail-Based Clinicians Room 242 Tracks: Jails The alarming number of preventable deaths from substance withdrawal while in jail custody calls for the implementation of comprehensive withdrawal policies and protocols. Accordingly, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Coordinator, Georgia Department of Corrections Georgia Department of Corrections, Forsyth, Georgia

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10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

B-2A Georgia’s Hybrid Approach to Treatment and Security: How Combining Evidence-Based Programs and STG Intervention Promotes Offender Change Room 239 Track: Prisons/Jails The Concept of the Evidence-Based Program is to lower recidivism and help foster safer and more effective treatment inside facilities. This presentation will demonstrate how using a combined approach to treatment creates positive behavior and ultimately reforms the offender’s way of thinking. The Evidence-Based Program along with the State STG unit work in concert to promote the idea of Identity Reformation which can ultimately lead to gang renunciation and promotes the idea of self-efficacy. The STG unit works with care and treatment staff using evidence-based principles to accomplish these goals. Learning Objectives: 1.Understand what the Evidence-Based Program is. 2.Learn how a combined approach to offender treatment is more effective to short- and long-term behavior change.

Friday, Aug. 5 t 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

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