2024 ACA National Harbor Planning Guide_Winter Conference

Workshops (continued) Workshops will be held Jan. 4–7 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.

■ Navigating the Evolving Legal Decisions Impacting Prisons and Jails ■ Navigating the Road to Promotion ■ New to “Super-Vision”? Explore the Essential Skills for New Supervisors! ■ Paradigm Shift: The Massachusetts Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing ■ Pathway to Retention: Re-engineering Correctional Training Academies ■ Paying It Forward with Mentoring Programs ■ Peer Support for Correctional Staff ■ Performance-Based Training System: A Full-Spectrum Approach to Correctional Training ■ Performance Monitoring Visits ■ PREA at 20: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future ■ Promoting Pro-Social Development in the Correctional Setting: How Therapeutic Interventions Can Reduce Disciplinary Incidents Within the Correctional Setting ■ Quality Improvement Strategies: Using the Data to Create Changes ■ Reaching the Unreachable: Distance Learning in Georgia’s Correctional Facilities ■ Ready for Pell Evaluation: The Experiences of Departments of Corrections, Prisons, Colleges and Incarcerated Students Involved with Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison ■ Recovery Housing: Cultivating Positive Inmate Behavior by Offering Opportunity for Recovery, Personal Accountability, Wellness and Healing ■ Rediscover Your Purpose and Value in the Corrections Workplace ■ Reducing Inmate Idleness Through Talent and Skill Development ■ Reentry Gumbo: Employer Engagement: A Key Ingredient for Successful Supervision!

■ Reentry Starts at Reception: Building a More Humane and Equitable Reentry System by Including our Native American Communities ■ Rehearsing and Exercising Emergency Action Plans ■ Resident Concern from the Latest Research: Tackling Contraband Cellphones ■ Restrictive Housing Restructuring and Compliance ■ Revenue Generating and Waste Reducing Strategies through Sustainability Programs in Corrections ■ Richness of Reentry: Education and Correctional Industries Partnering to Prepare Tomorrow’s Workforce ■ Single Breath Return-to-Resting Point Technique: Mindfulness Meditation Approach for Operational Stress Control in a Correctional Settings ■ So You Want to Start a DBT Program: Foundational Needs and Resources for a DBT Program to Start, Grow, Survive and Thrive in Your Setting ■ Staffing Analysis Implementation Project ■ Start Now: The Efficacy and Effectiveness of a Skill-Based Program in Improving Behavioral Problems ■ Strategies to Reduce Recidivism with Peer Coaching for Behavioral Health and Substance Use ■ Structuring Process Around the Use of Prescription Drugs of Abuse in Corrections ■ Student Educational Planning: The Reentry Skills Tool for Students ■ Taking Drug Addiction to the MAT: Ohio’s Experience in Implementing Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) for Opiate Addiction ■ Team Building to Assess Performance ■ Techniques and Strategies for Obtaining Consent and Cooperation when Treating Inmates with Mental

Health Diagnoses and Cognitive Impairment ■ Technology Enhanced Educational Program Perspectives

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