2024 ACA National Harbor Program Book_Winter Conference

Learning Objectives: • The benefits of building agency capacity to conduct a staffing analysis. • The benefits of NIC’s virtual training and coaching model. • Become familiar with NIC’s staffing analysis implementation process. Moderator: TBD Speakers: Karen Albert , Project Director, Practical Solutions for Public Safety, Inc., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Scott Richards , Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute of Corrections, Washington, D.C. B-2L Security Threat Groups In Mexican Prisons Track: Prisons Room: National Harbor 9 Show the technical-operative strategies and clinical techniques used to design the reception system, clinical-criminological classification and location system for inmates, as well as the historical referendum on the transition from a subjective classification system to an objective one, through the use of knowledge focused on methodological aspects and processes in target criminal groups, based on experience in the care and classification of inmates who are members of Mexican Cartels. Learning Objectives: • Identify the specific characteristics of inmates that allow an adequate classification (direct, covert, circumstantial, indirect, forced). • Apply evaluation instruments that allow the monitoring of the evolution of the criminal dynamics of inmates according to their criminogenic characteristics and their position within the cartel reclassification process. • Ensure an objective location system for persons deprived of liberty, which allows effective control of their binding conduct.

B-2K Staffing Analysis Implementation Project Stakeholder Agency: Practical Solutions for Public Safety, Inc. — NIC Track: ACA Resources Room: National Harbor 8 In an unprecedented era of staffing shortages, good staffing plans and practices go a long way toward achieving an agency’s most important mandate: providing safety for staff, the public and those in custody. Derived from the processes and methodology depicted in NIC staffing analysis resources, the Staffing Analysis Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) curriculum was developed with distinct advantages over the in-class delivery method, which includes instruction and only a brief practical exercise involving an overview of staffing analysis processes. By conducting a staffing analysis following an industry-recognized process, agencies compile and analyze the data necessary to recognize where they can make efficiencies, establish, or modify policies that affect staffing and provide justification for current or future staffing needs. Agencies participating in virtual delivery benefit from extensive hands-on experience in all the staffing analysis steps and processes. Participants are assisted throughout the learning process with live virtual training sessions, inter-session practical application and coaching as they conduct a staffing analysis of the custodial line officers and first-line supervisors from one of their agency’s facilities. The knowledge and skills gained equip participants with everything they need to complete an analysis of remaining agency staff. Agency participants receive training, coaching and technical assistance for approximately four months, covering pre-session data collection, planning, training and report writing activities. With the benefit of training, coaching, practical application and technical assistance, participating agencies will be prepared to implement a staffing plan that can be reviewed, updated and revised annually.

WORKSHOPS Friday, Jan. 5 ▼ 10–11:30 a.m.

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