2025 ACA Winter Conference Orlando_Program Book

Presenter 3: DeWayne Hendrix , Warden (retired), BJA CorWellness SME, IIR/BJA CorWellness, Tallahassee, Florida How to Turn a Consent Decree into a Golden Opportunity? [CE/CERP] Room W240 C Overview: The session will provide an overview of specific medical and mental health areas that usually cause challenges to jails and prisons. It will be an overview of ways to avoid pitfalls, improve outcomes and how accreditation may prevent legal action. It will examine correctional facilities that are reforming medical, mental health and restrictive housing. The session will also examine jails and their involvement with DOJ consent decrees, its purpose and the impact on improving the quality of care in incarcerated environments. A jail’s progress through the legally binding agreement and the positive changes that can be affected in the treatment of medical and mentally ill incarcerated persons as well as changes made to environment of jails will be detailed. The presenters will highlight the challenges and changes personally experienced throughout the process. The session will address how the medical and mental health departments and security/custody work together to accomplish goals and can make strides towards reforming treatment outcomes. Learning Objectives: • Understand the process of a Consent Decree or Agreement. • Learn how to implement suggestions from the Monitor’s report. • Identify the process and guidelines for accreditation to improve your medical and mental health outcomes. Moderator: Terri Catlett , Director of Correctional Health, American Correctional Association, Alexandria, Virginia Speaker 1: E. Carolina Montoya , Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Miami, Florida Speaker 2: James C. Welch , RN, BLS, HNB-BC, SGAHN, Georgetown, Delaware

Saturday, Jan. 11 ▼ 10–11:30 a.m.

Opioid Overdose Relief in Corrections [CE/CERP] Room W230 B Overview: This purpose of this workshop is showing the steps we are taking by providing vital resources in vending machines at the Davidson County Sheriff Office. This fairly new program is available for arrestee, incarcerated inmates and the community that have a history of battling substance use. This program provides two doses of Narcan nasal spray, valuable information on local treatment facilities, ways of coping with substance abuse/ use and emergency numbers to contact if they or someone they know/love are dealing with substance use issues. With this advancement, our goal for this program is to continue to decrease the number of deaths due to drug overdoses, make the purchase of medication affordable and let people know their lives are valued. The expected outcome is to have treatment services options available, have other locations for the Narcan vending machines available and continue to care for the citizens in the Davidson County Community. Learning Objectives: • Battling drug addiction and mental illnesses while incarcerated in Davidson County. • Behavioral Care Center. • Saving Lives: Narcan Vending Machine. Moderator: Patrick D. Mckinney ,

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