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&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;cognitive&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;behavior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;t4c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;thinking&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is to join and post questions to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy Division Technical Assistance Manager will post quarterly any open NIC Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from outside of their organization take part in the program, as they are unable to fill the slots with participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay tuned for more information for what we will be offering in FY2012 which begins October 1, 2011 - stay tuned to this wiki and the T4C Forum for more details as they become available!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary method of NIC&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs) or NIC staff members who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request for this training and, before communicating with the requesting agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit. The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency. NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;3.0&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;3.1&lt;/span&gt; Is Here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;T4C &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;3.0&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;3.1&lt;/span&gt; is here! The update of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is complete. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans) were involved in the revision.&amp;nbsp;You can find the new package here &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/025057"&gt;http://nicic.gov/Library/025057&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade, thousands of individuals have been trained to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program, in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is now offering&amp;nbsp;a formalized Thinking for a Change Certified Facilitator credential.&amp;nbsp;CCE adminsters and&amp;nbsp;manages the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded, the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/9.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:08:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:37</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 9 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 8/22/2011 8:08:12 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is to join and post questions to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy Division Technical Assistance Manager will post quarterly any open NIC Technical&lt;a href="http://www.infernopromos.com"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;Jacksonville&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;Clubs&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from outside of their organization take part in the program, as they are unable to fill the slots with participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.world-digital-media.com"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;Jacksonville&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay tuned for more information for what we will be offering in FY2012 which begins October 1, 2011 - stay tuned to this wiki and the T4C Forum for more details as they become available!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary method of NIC&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs) or NIC staff members who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request for this training and, before communicating with the requesting agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit. The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency. NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change 3.0 Is Here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;T4C 3.0 is here! The update of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is complete. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans) were involved in the revision.&amp;nbsp;You can find the new package here &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/025057"&gt;http://nicic.gov/Library/025057&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade, thousands of individuals have been trained to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program, in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is now offering&amp;nbsp;a formalized Thinking for a Change Certified Facilitator credential.&amp;nbsp;CCE adminsters and&amp;nbsp;manages the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded, the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/8.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:22:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:8</guid><dc:creator>inferno</dc:creator><description>Revision 8 posted to Thinking for a Change by inferno on 8/20/2011 2:22:11 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is to join and post questions to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy Division Technical Assistance Manager will post quarterly any open NIC Technical &lt;a href="http://www.infernopromos.com"&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Jacksonville&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Clubs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from outside of their organization take part in the program, as they are unable to fill the slots with participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.world-digital-media.com"&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Jacksonville&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay tuned for more information for what we will be offering in FY2012 which begins October 1, 2011 - stay tuned to this wiki and the T4C Forum for more details as they become available!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary method of NIC&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs) or NIC staff members who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request for this training and, before communicating with the requesting agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit. The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency. NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change 3.0 Is Here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;T4C 3.0 is here! The update of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is complete. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans) were involved in the revision.&amp;nbsp;You can find the new package here &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/025057"&gt;http://nicic.gov/Library/025057&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade, thousands of individuals have been trained to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program, in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is now offering&amp;nbsp;a formalized Thinking for a Change Certified Facilitator credential.&amp;nbsp;CCE adminsters and&amp;nbsp;manages the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded, the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/7.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:01:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:7</guid><dc:creator>Leslie LeMaster</dc:creator><description>Revision 7 posted to Thinking for a Change by Leslie LeMaster on 7/15/2011 10:01:14 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is to join and post questions to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy Division Technical Assistance Manager will post &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;month&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;around&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;1st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;month&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;quarterly&lt;/span&gt; any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from outside of their organization take part in the program, as they are unable to fill the slots with participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Stay&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;tuned&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;information&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;what&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;we&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;be&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;offering&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;FY2012&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;which&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;begins&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;October&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;stay&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;tuned&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;wiki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Forum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;details&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;as&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;they&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;become&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;available&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary method of NIC&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs) or NIC staff members who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request for this training and, before communicating with the requesting agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit. The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency. NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;hen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Thinking&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Change&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;3.0&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;3.0&lt;/span&gt; is &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;revision&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;ki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;hange&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;expected&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt; The &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;updating&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;update&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;complete&lt;/span&gt;. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans) &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;were&lt;/span&gt; involved in &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;writing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;we&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;have&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;employed&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;assistance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;professional&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;curriculum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;designer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;We&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;anticipate&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;having&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;finished&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;product&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;available&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;community&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;1st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;quarter&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;revision&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;We&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;post&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;on-line&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;community&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;You&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;can&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;find&lt;/span&gt; the new &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;curriculum&lt;/span&gt; package &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;available&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/025057"&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;http://nicic.gov/Library/025057&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade, thousands of individuals have been trained to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program, in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;final&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;development&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;stages&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;offering&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;a formalized Thinking for a Change Certified Facilitator credential.&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;When&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;completed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp;CCE &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;manage&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;adminsters&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;manages&lt;/span&gt; the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded, the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/6.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:00:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:6</guid><dc:creator>Leslie LeMaster</dc:creator><description>Revision 6 posted to Thinking for a Change by Leslie LeMaster on 4/22/2011 11:00:47 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is to join and post questions to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from outside of their organization take part in the program, as they are unable to fill the slots with participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary method of NIC&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs) or NIC staff members who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request for this training and, before communicating with the requesting agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit. The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency. NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans) are involved in the writing, and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate having a finished product available to the corrections community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade, thousands of individuals have been trained to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program, in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded, the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/5.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:50:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:5</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 5 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 4/1/2011 10:50:50 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;A great way to become connected to others
interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is
to join and post questions
to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy
Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around
the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from
outside of their organization take part in the program,
as they are unable to fill the slots with
participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming
T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What if I don&amp;#39;t work for a government corrections organization? How can I access T4C training?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;There are two options if you work for a private provider of services to a government corrections&amp;nbsp;organization (a jail, a prison or a community corrections organization (probation or parole&amp;nbsp;agency).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:60px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol style="padding-left:60px;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The government corrections organization to which you provide service requests TA from&amp;nbsp;NIC for T4C facilitator training, and you and others from your private provider of service&amp;nbsp;organization are included in the training by the TA requesting agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your agency can request TA from NIC directly, with a letter included from the agency&amp;nbsp;CEO of the government corrections agency that your agency is statutorily required to&amp;nbsp;provide services to and/or contractually provides services to, &lt;strong&gt;endorsing your private&amp;nbsp;provider of service organization TA request to NIC. This letter must accompany&amp;nbsp;the TA request to NIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You attend an Open T4C TA event (see above) where a corrections agency receiving&amp;nbsp;T4C training from NIC is willing to have participants from outside of their agency&amp;nbsp;participate in the training. In the instances in which those occur, they will be posted to&amp;nbsp;the T4C forum. All expenses related to attendance at these trainings are the&amp;nbsp;responsibility of the participants or their private agencies&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C)
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our
Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource
package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides
&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections
agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change
facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change
Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections
agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about
logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary
method of NIC&amp;#39;s
&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site
training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs)
or NIC staff members
who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional
Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request
for this training
and, before communicating with the requesting
agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics
of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Direct TA requests
have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit.
The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials
provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any
facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed
for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs
for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency.
NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick,
and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the
supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders
under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is
the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans)
are involved in the writing,
and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate
having a finished product available to the corrections
community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to
the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is
available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;Over the past decade,
thousands of individuals have been trained
to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some
form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While
this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the
individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program,
in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing
and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is
in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change
Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;When awarded,
the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified
Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to  &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is
now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/4.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:48:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:4</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 4 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 4/1/2011 10:48:33 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great way to become connected to others
interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is
to join and post questions
to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy
Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around
the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from
outside of their organization take part in the program,
as they are unable to fill the slots with
participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming
T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;What&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;don&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;work&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;How&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;can&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;access&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;There&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;options&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;work&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provider&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;services&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;jail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;prison&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;community&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;probation&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;parole&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;The&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;which&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provide&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;service&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;requests&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;facilitator&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;others&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provider&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;service&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;included&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;requesting&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;OR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Your&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;can&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;request&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;directly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;letter&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;included&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;CEO&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;statutorily&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;required&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provide&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;services&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;and/or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;contractually&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provides&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;services&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;endorsing&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;provider&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;service&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;request&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;This&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;letter&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;must&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;accompany&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;request&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;You&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;attend&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;an&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Open&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;TA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;event&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;see&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;above&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;where&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;corrections&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;receiving&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;NIC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;willing&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;have&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;participants&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;outside&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agency&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;participate&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;In&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;instances&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;which&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;those&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;occur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;they&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;be&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;posted&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;T4C&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;forum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;All&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;expenses&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;related&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;these&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;trainings&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;responsibility&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;participants&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;agencies&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C)
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our
Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource
package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides
&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections
agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change
facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change
Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections
agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about
logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary
method of NIC&amp;#39;s
&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site
training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs)
or NIC staff members
who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional
Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request
for this training
and, before communicating with the requesting
agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics
of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct TA requests
have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit.
The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials
provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any
facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed
for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs
for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency.
NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick,
and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the
supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders
under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is
the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans)
are involved in the writing,
and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate
having a finished product available to the corrections
community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to
the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is
available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the past decade,
thousands of individuals have been trained
to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some
form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While
this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the
individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program,
in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing
and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is
in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change
Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When awarded,
the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified
Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to  &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is
now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/3.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:01:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:3</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 3 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 3/30/2011 10:01:46 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great way to become connected to others
interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is
to join and post questions
to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy
Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around
the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from
outside of their organization take part in the program,
as they are unable to fill the slots with
participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming
T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C)
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our
Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource
package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides
&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections
agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change
facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change
Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections
agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about
logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary
method of NIC&amp;#39;s
&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site
training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs)
or NIC staff members
who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional
Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request
for this training
and, before communicating with the requesting
agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics
of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct TA requests
have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit.
The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials
provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any
facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed
for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs
for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency.
NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick,
and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the
supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders
under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is
the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans)
are involved in the writing,
and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate
having a finished product available to the corrections
community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to
the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is
available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the past decade,
thousands of individuals have been trained
to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some
form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While
this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the
individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program,
in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing
and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is
in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change
Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When awarded,
the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified
Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to  &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is
now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/2.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:23:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:2</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 2 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 3/7/2011 11:23:51 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Thinking for a Change (T4C) &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;Training&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"&gt;FAQ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Frequently&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Asked&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background: SpringGreen;"&gt;Questions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Filed under: cognitive behavior, t4c, thinking for a change&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great way to become connected to others
interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is
to join and post questions
to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy
Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around
the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from
outside of their organization take part in the program,
as they are unable to fill the slots with
participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming
T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C)
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our
Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource
package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides
&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections
agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change
facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change
Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections
agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about
logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary
method of NIC&amp;#39;s
&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site
training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs)
or NIC staff members
who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional
Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request
for this training
and, before communicating with the requesting
agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics
of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct TA requests
have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit.
The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials
provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any
facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed
for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs
for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency.
NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick,
and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the
supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders
under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is
the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans)
are involved in the writing,
and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate
having a finished product available to the corrections
community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to
the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is
available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the past decade,
thousands of individuals have been trained
to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some
form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While
this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the
individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program,
in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing
and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is
in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change
Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When awarded,
the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified
Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to  &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is
now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thinking for a Change (T4C) Training FAQ</title><link>http://community.nicic.gov/wikis/t4c/thinking-for-a-change-t4c-frequently-asked-questions/revision/1.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:21:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:1</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Stengel</dc:creator><description>Revision 1 posted to Thinking for a Change by Joshua Stengel on 3/7/2011 11:21:43 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where and when is the next training session?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great way to become connected to others
interested in &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C)&lt;/strong&gt;, and to see when open facilitator trainings are advertised, is
to join and post questions
to our &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C&amp;nbsp;on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(sort of like a Face Book for corrections professionals).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC&amp;#39;s Academy
Division Technical Assistance Manager will post each month (on or around
the&amp;nbsp;1st of the month) any open NIC Technical Assistance (TA) related deliveries of basic &lt;strong&gt;Thinking for A Change Facilitator&amp;#39;s Training &lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practicum (train &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he trainer in Thinking for A Change)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; in this case means that the requesting TA agency is willing to have participants from
outside of their organization take part in the program,
as they are unable to fill the slots with
participants from their agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the best way to find out about open upcoming
T4C training opportunities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/join"&gt;Join the online community today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(T4C)
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esources &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;re
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;vailable From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIC? What Do They Cost&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/Library/024658"&gt;Thinking for A Change (T4C) Resource Pack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;available for order from our
Information Center.&amp;nbsp;There is no cost for this resource
package, which is a combo pack of existing T4C resources that NIC has created through the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eard NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;l&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;onger &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T4C t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Contrary to what you may have heard, NIC still provides
&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;Basic Facilitator and Advanced Practicum (Train the Trainer in T4C) training. The difference is in how NIC provides T4C training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past, NIC traveled around the country and offered T4C training on set dates at various sites.&amp;nbsp;Now, we offer T4C training upon specific request from corrections
agencies via our &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical&amp;nbsp;Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ow &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oes NIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ffer T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raining&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? H&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;w&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ccess &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC offers Thinking for A Change
facilitator training via its &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/ta"&gt;Technical Assistance (TA) initiative&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;directly to requesting corrections agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we apply for technical assistance? Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.nicic.gov/TAApplication"&gt;request Technical Assistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to receive &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or A Change
Facilitator&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;or &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Practicum&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;training for your government corrections
agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat are the costs related to receiving the training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about
logistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opyright issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NIC provides &lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;training to state and local correctional agencies, through&amp;nbsp;the primary
method of NIC&amp;#39;s
&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/TA"&gt;Technical Assistance initiative&lt;/a&gt;. This technical assistance, or on-site
training, is provided by Technical Resource Providers (TRPs)
or NIC staff members
who are trained to deliver the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum. The assigned NIC Correctional
Program Specialist (CPS) will review the written request
for this training
and, before communicating with the requesting
agency, review the request letter to ensure it is appropriate in its content and that it is on agency letterhead and contains the signature of the agency head. It will be the role of the CPS to work out all the logistics
of the event with the agency contact person whose name should also be contained in the request letter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct TA requests
have a funding limit per request. The collective cost to NIC including TRP expenses for preparation, on-site work, travel and the resulting TA report should not exceed the limit.
The requesting agency is expected to fund the cost of reproduction of all materials
provided by NIC to be used for the instruction and facilitation of the training, the cost for any
facilities within which the training will be conducted, audio-visual equipment needed
for the training, and any additional costs related to internal agency participant attendance at the training.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hat about participants from other agencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;? F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rivate p&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;roviders &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ervice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the requesting agency agrees to the attendance of participants from outside agencies, all the costs
for those participants attending this &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; TA event will be the responsibility of the visiting participant or agency.
NIC is unable to contribute to those expenses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;program is copyrighted by its authors, Jack Bush, Barry Glick,
and Juliana Taymans. However, the program was prepared under funding from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and NIC reserves the right to authorize others to reproduce and use all or any part of the curriculum documents for use with individuals who currently are under the
supervision of the court. With a letter, NIC will authorize individuals to photocopy&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or a Change &lt;/strong&gt;for use with offenders
under the supervision of your agency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hen is
the revision of T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;g &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hange
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updating of the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for a Change &lt;/strong&gt;curriculum is in process. All three original authors&amp;nbsp;(Jack Bush, Barry Glick, and Juliana Taymans)
are involved in the writing,
and we have employed the assistance of a professional curriculum designer. We anticipate
having a finished product available to the corrections
community by 1st quarter 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;We will post to
the &lt;a href="http://community.nicic.org/forums/63.aspx"&gt;T4C on-line community&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the &lt;a href="http://nicic.gov"&gt;NIC website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;when the new curriculum package is
available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a Thinking for a Change (T4C) Credentialed Facilitator? How do I get the credential?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the past decade,
thousands of individuals have been trained
to facilitate the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Change (T4C) &lt;/strong&gt;program with offender groups. Typically, they have participated in some
form of formalized training. At the conclusion of that training they may have received a participation/completion certificate. While
this certificate is routinely used as an indicator that the
individual is &amp;quot;qualified&amp;quot; to facilitate the T4C program,
in almost all cases, no formal assessment of program performance measures are conducted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The National Institute of Corrections in partnership with the Center of Credentialing
and&amp;nbsp;Education (CCE), an internationally known credentialing organization, is
in the final&amp;nbsp;development stages of a formalized Thinking for a Change
Certified Facilitator credential. When completed, the CCE will manage the credentialing process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When awarded,
the &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hinking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for A Change Certified
Facilitator (T4C - CF) &lt;/strong&gt;credential will attest to the training, knowledge, skills and competencies of those who have successfully completed the credentialing process and maintain certification. For more information on the&amp;nbsp;credentialing process, please go to  &lt;a href="http://www.cce-global.org/"&gt;www.cce-global.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The T4C-CF credential is
now available! Follow this link for more information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicic.gov/t4ccf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;http://nicic.gov/t4ccf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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