2024 ACA National Harbor Program Book_Winter Conference

SESSION 8

3:30–4:15 P.M.

School Superintendent, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Brooke Wheeler , School Superintendent, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina

Massachusetts DOC Provides All Its Incarcerated w/Day-One Access to Career Readiness Courses Corrections are undergoing a fundamental transformation — from warehousing to educational and rehabilitation institutions. States like MA are showing how to transform prison education with its long wait lists and one-room schoolhouse model to leveraging technology and staff to change the model and provide true pathways to sustainable careers. Education is the crux of that turning point. 57% of individuals nationally in state prisons have never participated in educational programming. Learn how the MA DOC utilizing APDS, an education technology firm, have partnered to address this disparity. But education isn’t just using technology — teachers, content, and data are all needed to improve outcomes of the justice-impacted. Leveraging each individual’s lived expertise, expert educators use technology and data to transform learners for renewed career-readiness and reskilled education and training on a customized pathway. The pathway to sustainable employment is tangible and those who reenter society have a means to rebuild their lives. With an already declining recidivism rate, learn how Massachusetts is poised to become a best practice for the Nation with this partnership added to its already robust offering of educational opportunities. Speakers: Arti Finn , Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, APDS, New York, New York; Mitzi Peterson , Deputy Commissioner of Clinical Services & Reentry, Massachusetts Department of Correction, Milford, Massachusetts

SESSION 7

2:45–3:30 P.M.

EDUCATION IN CORRECTIONS SYMPOSIUM Thursday, Jan. 4 ▼ Session Information

Implementing Successful Higher Education Partnerships that Provide Quality Education while Reducing Infractions, Recidivism, and Post-Release Barriers Services (DPSCS) have been proud to sustain a strong partnership for over a decade. This partnership, the Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), has allowed over 300 men and women incarcerated in Maryland to engage in a high-quality college education while incarcerated. This presentation will share the ways in which a successful higher education partnership can be implemented in prisons, and the wide-reaching positive benefits of such a program, which include reduced infractions, recidivism and post-release barriers. The key to the success of an educational program in any setting is the quality and the rigor of the instruction and academic support. Students are held to the rigorous academic standards for which Goucher is known. GPEP provides full scholarships to all students in the prisons, which cover their courses, twice-weekly tutoring, individual academic advising, all needed books and materials and college preparatory courses in math and writing for those who need them. Speakers: Eliza Cornejo , Executive Director, Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), Towson, Maryland; Danielle Cox , Director of Education, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Office of Programs, Treatment, and Reentry Services, Baltimore, Maryland Goucher College and the Maryland Department of Safety and Correctional

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