2023 ACA Orlando Program Book_Winter Conference

Moderator: Jerome Greenfield , M.D, DLFAPA, Health Services Administrator, Iowa Department of Corrections, Coralville, Iowa Speakers: Jerome Greenfield , M.D, DLFAPA, Health Services Administrator, Iowa Department of Corrections, Coralville, Iowa; Ryan Price , MPA, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York, New York B-1I Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Sponsored “Improving Correctional Training Academies” Award Presented by The Moss Group, Inc. Grand Ballroom 11 Track: Other — Staff Training In 2019, TMG was awarded funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for a multi-year initiative to examine the state of correctional academy training. TMG’s comprehensive national scan, in collaboration with BJA, CLA, ACA, IACTP, and AWEC, has included administering a national survey of DOC academies, conducting curriculum review evaluating the design and delivery of curriculum and conducting on-site observations, to include review of academy organization and infrastructure, technology and training outcomes and facilitating staff interviews and focus groups. Learning Objectives: identified through professional curriculum review, on-site academy observations, surveys, interviews and focus group participation. 2. Examine findings that will direct this project team in its development of guiding principles for professional correctional training and academies and reflect on how learning and delivery styles can be influenced to maximize resources, reach differing generations of learners and improve recruiting and retention outcomes. 3. Understand what components of traditional training academies can be enhanced for correctional leaders to fully realize positive outcomes through effective training, academy structure and usage for all staff 1. Understand the complex challenges associated with correctional training

and examine ways to further align and reinforce training academy activities with the expectations on current corrections staff that support an agency’s mission, goals, values and objectives. Moderator: Bernie Warner , President, The Moss Group, Washington, D.C. Speakers: Andre Bethea , Policy Advisor Corrections and Reentry, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Washington, D.C.; Rollin Cook , Project Director, The Moss Group, Washington, D.C.; Tracy Reveal , Ph.D. Consultant, The Moss Group, Columbus, Ohio B-1J Canadian Correctional Workers Well Being: 10 Year Longitudinal Study Grand Ballroom 9/10 Track: MDST Treatment Knowledge about the factors that contribute to the correctional officer’s (CO) mental health and well-being have been hampered by the dearth of rigorous longitudinal studies. In this presentation, we share the approach used in the Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge study (CCWORK) and select findings, all intended to investigate key determinants of health and well-being related to best practices among COs working in Canada’s federal prison system. CCWORK is a multiyear longitudinal cohort design (2018–2023, with a 5-year renewal) to study 500 COs working in 43 Canadian federal prisons. Quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments (i.e., surveys, interviews and clinical assessments) are used to assess participants’ mental health, correctional work experiences, correctional training experiences, views and perceptions of prison and prisoners, and career aspirations. Baseline instruments comprise two surveys, one interview and a clinical assessment, which are administered when participants are still recruits in training. Follow-up instruments are a survey, an interview and a clinical assessment conducted yearly when participants have become Correctional Officers. Among CCWORK’s expected scientific contributions highlight a detailed view of the operational, organizational and environmental

WORKSHOPS Sunday, Jan. 29 ▼ 8–9:30 a.m.

84 — ACA 2023 Winter Conference | Orlando