2026 ACA 156th Congress of Correction Pittsburgh_Planning Guide

Workshops Tentative List

■ Strategic Collaboration in Correctional Health Care: The Winfield Correctional Facility Long Term Care Model ■ Substance Use Assessment and Treatment for Justice‑Involved Youth ■ The Benefits and Challenges of Court‑Ordered Mental Health Treatment ■ The Complexity of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders and Reentry: Why Current Approaches Fail and Strategies to Improve Outcomes ■ The Switch to a Digital Addiction Treatment Protocol: Challenges, Successes and Real‑Life Tales from North Dakota DOC ■ The Opioid Simulation ■ The Silver Tide in Corrections: How Aging Demographics Will Change Operations, Structure and Policy ■ Transforming Correctional Healthcare with Telehealth & Tele‑Dentistry ■ Treating and Managing Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Corrections: A Unified Behavioral Health and Security Model ■ Understanding the Drivers of Self‑Injury: Effective Interventions for Complex Self‑Injurious Behavior ■ Utilizing the 1115 Waiver to Build an MOUD Continuum from Incarceration to Community ■ When Behavior Speaks: Personality Disorders and Self Harm in Correctional Settings ■ Above & Beyond Compliance Monitoring: Ohio’s Progressive Efforts at Transforming Conventional Juvenile Parole Supervision & Reentry Initiatives. ■ Accreditation Innovation: Introducing the ACA Digital Audit Instrument and the AI Future of Compliance ■ Accreditation Readiness for Correctional Industries Programs* ■ Advancing Correctional Case Management: From Intake to Community Reentry ■ Advancing Transformational Leadership Within Correctional Environments* Professional Development Workshops

■ Anatomy of a Constitutional Challenge to Restrictive Housing: Legal and Clinical Issues ■ And Now for the Rest of the Story… ■ Aramark’s Propel360 Smarter Systems for Stronger Food Service Operations ■ Biometric Capabilities that the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division Offers to the Corrections Community (FBI) ■ Breaking the Cycle: Engineering Smarter Off-Ramps in Juvenile Justice ■ Building a Culture of Wellness in Corrections: The Pennsylvania DOC Model ■ Built, Not Bought: Utah’s Microservices Approach to OMS Modernization ■ Changes in Food Safety Knowledge and Application of the Model Food Safety Practices for Correctional Facilities ■ Changing Thinking, Changing Lives: A Deep Dive into Virginia DOC’s Cognitive Community Model ■ Coming Home – Fostering Inclusive Reentry for Safer Communities ■ Commemoration With Purpose: How VADOC Builds Accountability Through Victim Awareness Initiatives ■ The Complexity of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders and Reentry: Why Current Approaches Fail and Strategies to Improve Outcomes ■ Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations ■ Corrections Connections: The Engine Behind Strategic Communications ■ DC Jail: Before the Badge Gets Heavy ■ Drawing from 500 Prisons Around the World: Practical Solutions for Burnout, Animosity and Tension in Corrections: Introducing the ‘Deep Heart’ Approach ■ Empowering Change from Within: How Virginia DOC’s Peer-Led Models Strengthen Facility Culture and Community Reentry ■ The Evolution of Faith-Based Programs in Texas Prisons ■ Expanded Programming Reach, Improved Staff Experiences: Peer–Staff Co-Facilitation in Corrections

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