Justice System Assessment & Training

Our online surveys help identify which leadership and communication strategies, agency sectors, and staff attitudes to target for change. Identifying which areas are in greatest need of intervention, help prioritize which areas change during the present and which areas can be addressed in the future as resources become available.

Assesses staffs’ personal motivation related to meeting with offenders to:

1. Explore their ambivalence to change,
2. Pull together a comprehensive picture of their criminogenic needs, and
3. Hold offenders accountable and identify compliance issues.

Measures the extent to which staff view themselves as law enforcers, resource brokers, or case workers. (Need to expand this sentence to answer the question so what?)

Tracks staff perceptions of organizational issues such as opportunities for promotion, information flow, and general job satisfaction.

Provides current and ideal ratings of six aspects of organizational climate: leadership, motivation, communication, decisions, goals and control.

Allows staff to rank in order of importance 35 job tasks that fall into four categories:

1. Changing offenders’ self-perceptions, feelings, and coping strategies,
2. Improving offenders’ existing relationships and life situations,
3. Providing new relational and personal development experiences,
4. Enforcing/encouraging change.

When you contact J-SAT to initiate the survey process, we will ask you for the email addresses of each person in the agency who you would like to survey. If there are particular levels or sectors that you would like to analyze separately, we will also ask you to provide these classifications.

Once you inform your staff about the purposes and time requirements for the process (30-45 minutes), we will send each person an email containing a link to the online surveys, J-SAT staff contact information for technical support, and a reassurance that only aggregate data will be used in survey analysis.

Their individual data will be kept confidential. Using the email link, staff will enter basic demographic information and choose a password that they can use, tocreate an account that will allow them to save the surveys before completion and return to complete them at a later date as needed.

The survey engine guides staff through completing each assessment, requiring a response to each item in order to prevent incompletes or random responding. Reminders will be sent to late responders and oversight staff, if requested, until all surveys are fully completed.

Once all data is collected, J-SAT analysts will review the combined results and create a report containing aggregate graphs, result summaries, and recommendations of key strength and growth areas by level and sector, and for the agency as a whole.

If desired, J-SAT analysts can work with oversight staff to plan for policy realignment, additional training, or other changes that can capitalize on agency strengths and strategically affect identified growth areas. Following these changes, agencies may opt for a second round of surveys and analysis to measure gains in targeted areas.