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C-1J Targeted Interventions Gaining Enhanced Reentry (TIGER): Gender Responsivity and Other Revisions Grand Ballroom 9/10 Track: Jails The Department of Louisiana Public Safety and Corrections was awarded the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) — Maximizing State Reforms grant from the Department of Justice in 2014 to create and implement an automated risk, need and responsivity tool to inform structured decision making and identify criminogenic needs for all criminal justice stake holders. Since 2020, the Department partnered with Louisiana State University Social Research and Evaluation Center to refine the existing Risk-Needs-Responsivity assessment. This two-year collaboration between Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has successfully reconfigured the TIGER Needs Assessment based upon the entire LA DPS&C population and refined the TIGER Institutional Risk algorithm to be gender responsive. Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify major factors required to obtain and maintain

units VADOC has to successfully manage the continuum of care, including gender responsive care in female facilities. Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify the

Virginia Department of Corrections Continuum of Care for vulnerable populations.

2. Participants will be able to summarize relevant data and performance measures related to the success of each unit. 3.Participants will be able to identify the steps VADOC took to develop diversionary programs and units targeting the treatment and security needs of vulnerable inmates. Moderator: Julie Fink , Ph.D., LCP, CSOTP, Mental Health Clinical Supervisor, Virginia Department of Corrections, Capron, Virginia Speakers: Morgan Geisert-Klein , M.A., RDT, QMHP-A, Mental Health Clinician I, Virginia Department of Corrections, Troy, Virginia; Allie Lovell , M.S., Special Program Manager for Diversionary Housing, Virginia Department of Corrections, Galax, Virginia; Hayley Shepard , M.A., Western Region Mental Health and Wellness Initiatives Administrator, Virginia Department of Corrections, Abingdon, Virginia

WORKSHOPS Monday, Jan. 30 ▼ 1:30–3 p.m.

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