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Improving Your Local Juvenile Justice System through
Cross System Collaboration (Webinar)
6/17/2019 - 6/17/2019
Online
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET, Satellite/Web Based
This webinar will provide practical examples of how state and local jurisdictions can collaborate across systems, including the juvenile justice, education, and welfare systems, to facilitate successful improvements to their juvenile justice systems.
Attendees will hear from experienced OJJDP grantees and TTA providers on best strategies, challenges, and lessons learned in planning and implementing multi-system juvenile justice systems improvements.
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Community Empowerment Through Black Men Healing Conference
We want to invite you to the upcoming 11th Annual Community Empowerment Through Black Men Healing Conference. This year the conference will focus on the health of the African American family and community by examining the link between inter-generational trauma and current challenges. Also, we will explore the link between resiliency and protective factors that lead to community healing and health. We realize that a stronger, thriving African American community improves the health of society as a whole.
“A role model is one who is aware that the babies are watching and acts accordingly.”
June 20 & 21, 2019
Metropolitan State University, Founders Hall-700 East Seventh Street, St. Paul MN 55106
More information Here
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Measuring and Improving MI Skills using the MITI Coding Tool
This dynamic workshop will introduce participants to the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Coding System (MITI), version 4.2.1. Using extensive practice following introduction and discussion of the tool, along with extensive practice with audiotaped work samples, learners will become skilled in recognizing and assessing common elements of practitioner competence in Motivational Interviewing.
Further, learners will have the option of attending two live, interactive online sessions to continue their rating skill practice and ask follow-up questions regarding coding and implementation. This service is included in the cost of the training.
When: Monday, June 24, 2019 at 8:30 AM CDT -to- Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 4:00 PM CDT
Where: Northwest Area Foundation, 60 Plato Blvd E, St Paul, MN 55107
More information Here
Understanding Contracting with the
State of Minnesota
Have you considered diversifying your customer base and selling to the State of MN?
Join us for a full morning session to get a better understanding of how to sell your products/services to the state, learn what the state buys, how to find opportunities, and tips for responding to solicitations. You may also be qualified for State Targeted Group/Economically Disadvantaged/Veteran Owned (TG/ED/VO) Certification if your small business is owned, operated and controlled by women, ethnic minorities, veterans, or persons with disabilities, or if your business is located in an economically disadvantaged Minnesota County. If you qualify, this session will help you learn the benefits of certification, including receiving preferences when responding to state opportunities. Whether you’re a certified business or not, in order to sell to the State of Minnesota, you’ll need to be registered in the accounting and procurement system known as SWIFT (StateWide Integrated Financial Tool). You’ll be able to conduct advanced searches for opportunities, as well as track payments through the supplier portal. We look forward to sharing this information with you. Registration is Free!
Date: 6/26/2019
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CDT)
Registration Deadline: 6/26/2019 8:00 AM (CDT)
Location: Mankato State University (MSU) Strategic Partnership Center Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship 424 N Riverfront Dr, Suite 210, Mankato MN 56001
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SOTP Quarter Break Job Interviewing Class
When: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Time: 11:45 am – 4:00 pm
Where: MCF – Lino Lakes, Sex Offender Treatment Program
Why: To assist SOTP participants in preparing for release to improve/develop job interviewing skills
Who: Anyone with experience in hiring / conducting job interviews and/or helping offenders prepare for a successful release
MCF-Lino Lakes Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) is preparing for quarter break and the quarterly Job Interviewing Class. We are looking for volunteers to conduct practice mock interviews for the offenders to work on their interviewing skills in preparation of their release. This is a great way to take a break from your normal routine and provide offenders with the practice they need to seek employment.
We are scheduled to have our class for the practice/mock job interviews on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 3rd. This starts with a Thank You luncheon & orientation for the volunteers at 11:45 am. At 1:00 we will gather with the SOTP men for an overview and then the rest of the afternoon (until 3:45) will be spent doing mock interviews with the men and providing them with valuable feedback on their interview strengths and ways in which they can improve their interviewing skills.
For those of you that have never done this before**, we have a few SOTP men that have participated in this opportunity prior to their release report back to us after their release that they did go into interviews with greater confidence and were hired pretty quickly upon release so we would like to continue the class but cannot do so without the generosity of volunteers. Volunteers have also reported feeling a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the offenders’ willingness to learn and watching them improve their skills.
Please let me know (Mary.Cardinal@state.mn.us) that you are interested and available by Tuesday, 6/25/19 (this allows time for getting the security paperwork done). If you are not a DOC employee, I need you to send a copy of your driver’s license with your RSVP (if you came in over the past year, you don’t need to send it again). Then just show up on 7/3/19 at approx. 11:30 am in the MCF-LL main lobby and check in.
Also, if any of you are interested in helping with the prep class that meets on Friday, June 29th from 8:00 – 11:10 am & 1:00 – 4:10 pm for the full or a half a day, please let us know as it’s not possible for our volunteers to get here each time, it would be nice to have a few people able to bring their experiences to this part of the class as well.
Adapting to the Cultural Needs of Clients
Join your colleagues for Hazelden Betty Ford's Hot Topics lunch-and-learn professional development series. Hear from leading experts and explore timely issues in addiction prevention, treatment and recovery.
Hazelden Betty Ford's Hot Topic #2: Evidence-Based Approaches for Co-Occurring Disorders: Adapting to the Cultural Needs of Clients.
Wednesday, July 17
11:30 a.m.-noon – Registration and lunch (provided)
Noon-1:30 p.m. – Presentation
1:30 p.m. – Optional 20-minute tour of Hazelden Betty Ford
This Special Event Series Is Free.
Hazelden Betty Ford, 680 Stewart Ave., St. Paul, MN 55102
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149th Congress of Correction in Boston
August 1-6, 2019
John B Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Halls C&D
Boston, MA
educational sessions, committee meetings, our keynote address by Chris Christie and the multitude of networking opportunities there are many experiences to be had! Attend a Sox game (link on conference page for tickets in the ACA group section), play a new interactive scavenger hunt with ACA’s app that will take you around the conference to win great prizes, visit the exhibit hall on Monday afternoon for lunch with the exhibitors (free with registration), win the grand prize car on Tuesday, thanks to our sponsors Falcon, Acorn Engineering, the Bob Barker Company, Attenti and VitalCore Health Strategies .
More information Here
American Probation and Parole Association’s 44th Annual Training Institute
The theme for this summer’s training institute is Passion, Courage, and Endurance: Transforming Community Corrections. The adult and juvenile justice systems are experiencing significant and powerful change driven by justice reform and innovative practices focused on promoting public safety in a more fair, just, and effective manner. America’s ever-changing landscape poses challenges and opportunities to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion in justice system program development, culturally competent and trauma-informed service delivery, and organizational change. As jurisdictions tackle policy reform, organizational development, and strengthening community partnerships, the overarching goal is to address critical social justice issues with a strong sense of passion, courage, and endurance.
Date(s): August 18 — 21, 2019
Venue: Marriott Marquis San Francisco, 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Website: https://www.appa-net.org/institutes/2019-San-Francisco/attend/
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2019 Forum on Criminal Justice
The 2019 Forum on Criminal Justice will be held September 15-18 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA. Hosted by the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) and the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), the Forum on Criminal Justice showcase programs, research and policies that will help justice practitioners, researchers and decision makers move the criminal justice system forward, getting to where we need to be through policy, practice and research.
Workshop tracks will focus on: systems integration and managing special populations; information sharing and technology; behavioral health and community-based services; policing violent crime and serving victims; and administration and management.
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Hamline University Center for Justice and Law
Poverty Series
During the 2019-2020 academic year, the Center for Justice and Law will focus on the theme of the criminalization of poverty. The mission of the center is to work with community partners to generate creative, concrete, and equitable policy solutions. Visit our website at http://hamline.edu/cjl
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wrongful Convictions: Race & Poverty Friday, Oct 4, 2019
We Are All Criminals with Emily Baxter Friday, Nov 22, 2019
Blueprint to Ending Poverty Conference Friday, Dec 6, 2019
Criminalization of Poverty Legislative Update Friday, Feb 7, 2020
Poverty and Barriers to Reentry Friday, Mar 6, 2020
Little Earth Project, Peacemaking and Youth Friday Apr 3, 2020
Women, Trauma, Mental Health & Poverty Friday, May 1, 2020
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