2023 ACA Philadelphia Program Book_153rd Congress of Correction

Moderator: Linda McFarlane , Executive Director, Just Detention International, Los Angeles, California Speakers: Jessica Blizzard , LISW-CP, Incarcerated Survivor Group Coordinator, South Carolina DOC, Columbia, South Carolina; Lisa R. Engram , Associate Deputy Director of Programs, South Carolina DOC, Columbia, South Carolina; Kenneth James , PREA Coordinator, South Carolina DOC, Columbia, South Carolina B-1E Targeted Interventions Gaining Enhanced Reentry (TIGER): Gender Responsivity and Other Revisions Track: Jails Room 202-B The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections was awarded the JRI — Maximizing State Reforms grant from the Department of Justice in 2014 to create and implement an automated risk, need, responsivity tool to inform structured decision-making and identify criminogenic needs for all criminal justice stakeholders. Since 2020, the Department has partnered with Louisiana State University Social Research and Evaluation Center to refine the existing Risk-Needs-Re sponsivity assessment. This two-year collaboration between Louisiana State University and the Louisiana

WORKSHOPS

Friday, Aug. 11 ▼ 8–9:30 a.m.

Department of Public Safety and Corrections has successfully reconfigured the TIGER Needs Assessment based on the entire LA DPS&C population and refined the TIGER Institutional Risk algorithm to be gender responsive. Learning Objectives: • Participants will be able to identify major factors required to obtain and maintain critical long-term collaborative efforts between academic institutions and state Departments of Corrections. • Technical considerations necessary to

refine validated needs assessment and risk prediction tools specific to state prison populations including data protocols, estimation methods and challenges to automation. • Participants will also be able to identify tangible “next steps” to establish and maintain proof of concept. Moderator: Karissa Page , Program

Manager, Louisiana Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing, Public Affairs, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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