2024 ACA Nashville Program Book_154th Congress of Correction

Building a Registered Apprenticeship Program: It’s Not as Hard as You Think Room 202-C This presentation is to inform the audience what a registered apprenticeship (RA) is and how they could start or expand a RA in their facility. It will give an overview of the terminology and forms used by the Department of Labor as used in RA’s. It will go over who in their area to contact if they are interested in starting one as well as step by step instructions on how to do this. We will provide some boilerplate documents that can be used as well as plenty of on-line resources to find sponsors and their local apprenticeship office. We will include the benefits of having a registered apprenticeship and some of the pitfalls to avoid. Moderator: Heather Crummel , Education Services Specialist, Military Corrections Complex, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Speakers: Rebecca Everley , Supervisory Education Services Specialist, Military Corrections Complex, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Kimberly Resare , Arts Specialist, Military Corrections Complex, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Overcoming Barriers to Reentry: An Inter-agency Partnership to Provide State Identification Cards to North Carolina’s Returning Citizens Room 202-B This presentation will discuss and review the partnership between the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction and the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles that serves to provide returning citizens the opportunity to request and receive state identification cards prior to release. This presentation will discuss and review how this partnership was established and its importance in supporting successful reentry, the development and early improvement of operations and oversight procedures and overall benefits derived in its first full year of existence. Presenters will highlight this partnership as an example of multi-agency, wholeof-government collaboration in North Carolina to support successful reentry and reintegration.

How to Combine Two Aging Facilities Into One New, State-of-the-Art Facility Focusing on the Facility, Staff and Culture Room 201-A Once an agency identifies the need the need for a new or replacement facility there is a long complex process to accomplish before you can occupy your facility. The steps to complete your new facility include obtaining executive and legislative or governing board approval, developing a facility program, designing, constructing and occupying your new facility. Indiana also faced the complexity of being directed to combine two existing facilities into one new facility. There is the physical (brick and mortar) aspect of the new facility; additionally, there are the human, cultural and operational differences between the two facilities that have developed over decades that must be addressed in a new modern facility. This reality creates many sensitive human situations for both staff and offenders who have worked or lived in one culture and are now going to be faced with a new facility and a new culture that they will both help develop and live with for decades. Planning and communication for this new reality is crucial for the long-term success of the new facility. This workshop will provide an inside look as to how this process was conceived, funding obtained, programmed (operationally, staffing, design and construction) and ultimately how this plan became reality. We will share our successes, lessons learned, some comic relief and other intriguing steps it takes to understand the full scope of closing two institutions, one that stood for over one hundred years, into one, new institution. Moderator: Daniel Mills , Principal, The MH Group, Indianapolis, Indiana Speakers: Marcus Hardy , Former Deputy Director of Corrections Illinois, Hardy and Associates, Joliet, Illinois; Kevin Orme , Executive Director, Division of Construction Services, Indiana Department of Correction, Indianapolis, Indiana; Tony Vie , Principal, Elevatus Architecture, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Saturday, Aug. 17 ▼ 4–5:30 p.m.

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