Training
J-SAT trainers have conducted trainings in over 30 states and several countries
in a variety of correctional agency settings. Our experience ranges from small,
one-day trainings with a handful of managers, line staff, or administrators to year-long
trainings of 1,400 officers and supervisors. We have worked with systems plagued
by political hurdles, limited resources, staff burnout, and resistance to change.
Featured Programs
This new program is a blended approach to reducing offender recidivism. It combines
and focuses on developing key core competencies over a four-day period. The course
provides some theory but is primarily a "how to" process that reflects the reality
of the human services caseworker.
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This popular program focuses on a critical component for applying evidence-based
practice in corrections. This flexible program scales to meet the level of MI implementation
appropriate for your agency's needs. Specificially, this program:
- Helps identify trainees with the capacity to learn MI
- Combines theory with skill practice
- Provides on-the-job coaching
- Measures ongoing MI-based performance
- Provides organizational policy and system support for MI
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During this three-day training, participants receive alternating modules of instruction
and practice, ensuring that they can:
- Administer, score, and interpret the LSI-R instrument
- Use a systematic quality assurance protocol for continuous improvement in use of
the LSI-R
- Demonstrate core active listening skills (open questions, reflections,
affirmations, and summaries) that encourage clients to disclose interview
material necessary for accurate risk/needs assessment
- Understand the Evidence-Based Principles that support actuarial risk/needs
assessment—an integral part of effective case planning
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During this three-day training, participants receive alternating modules of instruction
and practice, ensuring that they can:
- Administer, score, and interpret the LS/CMI instrument
- Use a systematic quality assurance protocol for continuous improvement in use of
the LS/CMI
- Demonstrate core active listening skills (open questions, reflections,
affirmations, and summaries) that encourage youths to disclose interview
material necessary for accurate risk/needs assessment
- Understand the Evidence-Based Principles that support actuarial risk/needs
assessment—an integral part of effective case planning
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Evidenced-Based Practices (EBP) is the progressive organizational use of direct,
scientific, current evidence to guide efficient, cost-effective correctional services
that positively impact subsequent recidivism / victimization and/or public satisfaction.
During this 3-day workshop, expert J-SAT trainers and researchers guide participants
through the following modules:
- Understanding the Big Picture
- Evaluating Current Sanctioning Philosophies
- The Research: What Works and Doesn’t Work in Reducing Recidivism
- Experiential Walk-Through of EBP’s Eight Guiding Principles
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CBT is a skills-driven, action-oriented way of teaching offenders new patterns of
realistic consequential thinking, objective problem-solving, emotional regulation,
and development of personal relapse-prevention strategies. Attendees to these two-day
workshops will:
- Receive an introduction to CBT
- Develop teaching, coaching, and contingency management skills
- Learn how to perform and support CBT interventions
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Attendees learn how to utilize the Risk & Resiliency Check-Up (RRC) Juvenile Assessment.
During the three-day training, participants receive alternating modules of instruction
and practice, ensuring that they can:
- Administer, score, and interpret the RRC instrument
- Use a systematic quality assurance protocol for continuous improvement in use of
the RRC
- Demonstrate core active listening skills (open questions, reflections, affirmations,
and summaries) that encourage youths to disclose interview material necessary for
accurate risk/needs assessment
- Understand the Evidence-Based Principles that support actuarial risk/needs assessment—an
integral part of effective case planning.
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Customized Training Services
We are able to tailor existing workshops to individual customer
needs or develop new workshops and curricula as needed. We have developed and tailored
a wide variety of seminars and workshops to individual client needs during the last
10 years. For more information, please contact us.
3 Questions to Ask Your Training Provider
- Do your trainers practice what they teach? Our trainers regularily
volunteer their time and practice the methods and principles taught in our
training programs.
- What qualifications do your trainers have? In cases where the
assessment and skill training services that we offer have professional, external
certification available, we have made sure that our network of trainers are certified and
up to date. Currently, five of our trainers are members of the Motivational
Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), certified as trainers of trainers by MI
founders Drs. Miller and Rollnick. In cases where
external certification is not available, J-SAT has often designed and
research-tested the assessments and tools presented so that our trainers are the
best qualified to train tool implementation.
- How do you evaluate the effectiveness of your training? Our trainers
conduct pre- and post-tests that are scored and graphed to show how well
participants have learned the desired skills. These normative data, staff
evaluations of the trainers, and summaries are
combined into a post-training report submitted to relevant management or
administrative staff in your agency.
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