2026 ACA 156th Congress of Correction Pittsburgh_Planning Guide

Workshops Tentative List

■ The Fast and the Forecasted: Structure for Intelligence* ■ Fostering Civility in the Correctional Workplace ■ From Control to Connection: Transforming Correctional Culture Through Real-Time Interaction ■ From Crisis to Capacity: Occupational Therapy’s Role in Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health ■ From Incarceration to Inspiration: Bridging Voices, Challenges and Pathways to Reintegration ■ From Incarceration to Integration: Building Community Collaborations That Create Real Second Chances ■ From Jail to Community: Building a Boundary-Spanning Reentry System That Saves Lives and Reduces Recidivism ■ From Struggle to Success: Creating a 4-Day GED Math Bootcamp That Works* ■ Go Further Discovery: Lessons Learned from Building a Secure Digital Learning Platform for Incarcerated Learners ■ Grief-Related Crisis in Custody: Managing the 72-Hour Destabilization Window ■ Help Us Help You: How Corrections Communicators Can Amplify Your Message ■ Hope, Healing and Reentry: The Power of Peer Recovery in Corrections ■ How Off-Site Construction Can Shape Your Corrections Environment ■ How to Know What You Don’t Know: The Necessity of an Effective Risk-Based Internal Audit Process to Agency and Facility Leadership ■ Hurricane Helene and NCDAC Challenges, Response and Recovery ■ Innovations in Programming for Incarcerated Females – A Look at SCI Cambridge Springs ■ Inside-Out Impact: Implementing Peer-Led Education in Corrections* ■ Interstate Compact ■ Justice Involved Veterans: A Joint Approach ■ Justice Reinvestment Initiative 2: Understanding Pennsylvania’s Modern Corrections Reforms

■ Juvenile Justice-Technology & Innovation / Staff Wellness / Facility Safety ■ Keeping the Energy ■ Leading for Change: How Corrections Supervisors Build and Sustain a Healthy Culture of Safety and Wellness ■ Maine Model of Corrections: Human-Centered Incarceration and Reentry, Earned Living Units ■ Mitigating Critical Incidents in Corrections ■ Modernizing Parole Officer Training in Ohio ■ More Than Monitoring: The New AI Playbook for Correctional Communications ■ The New Operating Model for Modern Corrections ■ The New O ʻ ahu Jail Project: A Continuation of Collaborative Development in Hawai ʻ i ■ Ohio’s Strategy to Supervise the Most Violent Offenders ■ Outcomes Over Output: Redefining ‘Success’ in Modern Juvenile Justice Systems ■ The Portrait of a Professional: Braiding Education and Reentry for Sustainable Youth Success ■ Power, Policy and Partnership: Strategic Legislative Engagement for Today’s Leaders ■ Prison Blues as a Brand Blueprint: Helping Incarcerated Individuals Build Financial Stability by Creating Work Programs for the Mainstream Market ■ Programs and Partnerships: Leading Reentry from the Inside Out and Welcoming the Outside In ■ The Quantifiable Path to Change: Building In-House Data Literacy in Juvenile Justice ■ Reducing Recidivism Through Commercial Driver (CDL) Training: The Roads2Work Model ■ Reenvisioning Jail Reentry: Allegheny County’s Roadmap to Successful Reentry ■ Regulation Reset: Transforming Correctional Culture through OT-Led Comfort Rooms ■ Religious Accommodation in Prisons: Can RLUIPA Be Your Friend? ■ Safety is Everyone’s Job: If You See Something, Say Something, and Do Something.

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