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The 2nd Annual Texas Juvenile Justice Summit will take place in Austin, Texas, June 25 to June 29, 2012. There will be national speakers such as Shay Bilchik former Director of the OJJDP to talk about collaboration and Dr. Linda Dahlberg from the CDC to talk about Violence Prevention. There are also...
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We are working on a PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act)contractors training. These would be medical doctors, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, interns, Nurses, Licensed treatment providers, unlicensed contractors with direct youth contact, community reintegration...
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One of our PREA REsource workgroup members sent us the following questions. I wanted to put it out to all of you who might have a program that you are finding successful. We are looking for a educational program that assists in stopping offenders who frequently show up in incident reports as sexually...
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Hi Angela, I am the PREA Coordinator for Oregon Youth Authority, for the state of Oregon. We have formed a national PREA workgroup that is addressing just the kinds of issue you brought up. Consisting of states working together to share resources, questions and information, we make up NPR-WORK National...
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In the State of Alaska our juvenile justice division is moving toward a strength based philosphy. I would love to hear how other states are doing this and training programs to accomplish a system wide initiative.
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Welcome to t he National PREA Resource Workgroup (NPR-WORK) discussion link - TWELVE STATES AND GROWING Cooperation, collaboration and combination of ideas, materials, policies, training, and all things PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) comprise this workgroup. The idea started when Oregon received...
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I would like to form a national work group for Juvenile Correction agencies in regards to PREA. Sharing information, concerns, implimentation questions and answers, funding, resource developmentdevelop a national conference specific to Juvenile Corrections, and work together so we are not all re-inventing...
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Crisis in the Community: Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children.............SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 IN ATLANTA TO REGISTER: http://www.mentalhealthgeorgia.com/HTML/WORKSHOP/workshop2.html With vision and action, The Attachment and Bonding Center of Atlanta continues...
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NORTHEAST REGION National Institute of Corrections Presents: THINKING for a CHANGE This is a 32 hour advanced level training program that will prepare participants to facilitate offender groups utilizing the Thinking for a Change program. Thinking for a Change (T4C) is an integrated, cognitive behavior...
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October 14 - 17, 2007 Follow this link for more on the exciting conference! http://www.npjs.org/Events/joint.html