2024 ACA National Harbor Program Book_Winter Conference

C-3I Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals (CE, Y CE) Track: Staff Training Room: National Harbor 12 Ongoing exposure to chronic stress, and primary and secondary trauma put corrections personnel at significant risk for anxiety, depression, substance abuse, obesity, suicidal ideation and early death from chronic stress related illnesses. Research indicates correctional officers experience PTSD at rates similar to combat veterans. This experiential Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency (MBWR) training provides simple self-regulation tools to enhance performance and effectively work in more regulated, healthier ways mitigating the health risks outlined above. MBWR will also provide evidence-based tools and practices for healing impacts of stress and trauma exposure while increasing overall physical, mental, emotional and spiritual resilience. Learning Objectives: • Identify the key health risks and their causes faced by correctional officers and other corrections personnel as a result of the cumulative effects of chronic stress and trauma exposure.

• Name key functions of the brain and autonomic nervous system that relate to stress, chronic stress, trauma exposure, self-regulation, rest and recovery and healing. • Practice basic mindfulness of body and mindfulness of breathing awareness training and use a number of breath-based self-regulation techniques for the purpose of effective stress management, emotion regulation and trauma healing. Moderator: John MacAdams , CMT-P, Senior Trainer, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety, Los Angeles, California Speakers: Michael Christie , DMin, MDiv, Chaplain Supervisor, Connecticut Department of Corrections, Stamford, Connecticut; Fleet Maull , Ph.D., CMT-P, Senior Consultant/Trainer, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety, Hatfield, Massachusetts C-3J Developing a Tool for Infection Prevention and Control in Correctional Settings (CE, CME, CERP) Track: Healthcare & Treatment Room: National Harbor 13 To address the challenges of correctional infection prevention and control (IPC), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with corrections and public health partners to build a corrections-focused IPC tool, called the “Correctional Infection Control and Response Tool” (C-ICAR). Participants will have the opportunity to review and inform the development of this tool. The C-ICAR is intended for use by corrections professionals, and/or their health department partners, to review and strengthen IPC practices to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks and will offer strategies that account for corrections-specific contextual factors. This workshop will review correctional IPC, introduce the C-ICAR, and solicit input that will inform C-ICAR development. Learning Objectives:

WORKSHOPS

Saturday, Jan. 6 ▼ 2–3:30 p.m.

• Explain how infectious diseases affect everyone in carceral settings and the

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