Join the CCCN for a live webinar highlighting:

Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement

(HOPE) Program

Date:   September 23, 2016

Time:   Please note webinar start time/your time zone

9:00-10:30am HST / 12-1:30pm PST / 1:00-2:30pm MST/ 2:00-3:30pm CST / 3:00-4:30pm EST

Target Audience:  Criminal justice professionals and organizations, community-based providers, and those interested in learning more about and / or replicating the HOPE model.

Register Here: https://nic.webex.com/nic/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee08a536b5f6d0bbcb4cd435089d5c38a

Description

The Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN) will be hosting a live webinar event with our federal partners and national and local experts to highlight Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), a collaborative strategy among the court, probation, prosecutors, defense, law enforcement and community treatment providers to effect positive behavioral changes in probationers. HOPE was first conceived of by Judge Steven S. Alm of the O’ahu First Circuit and began as a pilot program in 2004. The HOPE strategy targets higher risk/higher needs offenders, utilizing swift, certain, consistent, and proportionate consequences for non-compliance with probation conditions while maintaining a working alliance with the offender by both the probation officer and the judge.

Within the framework of the National Institute of Corrections’ eight evidence-based principles for recidivism reduction, HOPE assists offenders in the change process in a caring and supportive environment to help probationers succeed on probation and in life. While seemingly a simple theoretical model, HOPE is hard to do, and requires shared leadership within the criminal justice system. Research has shown that the HOPE strategy, when done with fidelity, can be highly successful and is inspiring like efforts in thirty-one states across the country. The CCCN believes that individual jurisdictions can adopt the swift and certain philosophy while modifying it to fit the needs and resources available in local communities. Our network is committed to identifying promising and innovative practices and promoting the use of evidence-based practices.

Objectives for the Webinar

• Showcase the innovative HOPE Program and how it can be replicated stateside;
• Discuss HOPE's innovative programmatic design, implementation and evaluation characteristics including:
• o HOPE's collaboration and systems approach - Court/Probation/Law Enforcement/Community Treatment Providers working together for a common goal;
• o Buy-in from staff/engagement/inclusion/supporting each other;
• o Matching probationers to the right services instead of one-size fits all;
• o Succession planning and sustainability build to success;
• o Research, randomized control trials, and high level scientific design proving the effectiveness of the program; and
• Engage the criminal justice system in a live discussion about the HOPE Program, resources for the field, how to access funding through federal resources, ideas for replication of similar approaches, and to motivate our leaders to want to do more.

Panelists

Judge Steven S. Alm, First Circuit Court, Honolulu, Hawaii (Innovator of Hawaii's HOPE Program)

Angela Hawken, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, New York University

Doug Marlowe, JD, Ph.D., Chief of Science, Law, and Policy, National Association of Drug Court Professionals

Penny Stinson, President of National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies, CCCN Member

Scott Taylor, Director of Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, CCCN At-Large Member

Moderator

Greg Crawford, NIC Correctional Program Specialist

gcrawford@bop.gov

Producer

Leslie LeMaster, NIC Correctional Program Specialist

llemaster@bop.gov

For additional information, see the following resources:

Replicating HOPE: Can others do it as well as Hawaii?

http://nij.gov/journals/273/pages/replicating-hope.aspx

HOPE II: A Follow-up Evaluation of Hawaii's HOPE Program

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249912.pdf

State of the Art of HOPE Probation

http://hopehawaii.net/assets/state-of-the-art-of-hope-probation-w-c.pdf 

Preparing for the Webinar

The webinar will be delivered using the WebEx Event Center virtual webinar platform. To participate successfully in a WebEx webinar effectively, you will need an internet enabled computer/ laptop and a telephone with a headset/earbuds.

• To ensure that you are able to access the platform, please ensure that your IT Administrator gives you access to the NIC WebEx platform at http://nic.webex.com
• Please access the following link to check and see if your browser will work with Webex http://www.webex.com/test-meeting.htmlThis test will only take a minute, we at NIC strongly recommend you to run this text prior to connecting to the WebEx platform.
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During this webinar we may share one or more video clips in the WebEx Event Center virtual webinar format. To ensure that you have the most effective learning experience, and can see and hear the video clips as they are shared:

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If you experience technical difficulties during the event, please contact WebEx Technical Support at 1-866-229-3239 for assistance.

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We hope that you will join NIC for more presentations like this one at the 2016 Virtual Conference: Leading with Innovation! scheduled for November 9, 2016!

If you would like to register for the 2016 Virtual Conference click here https://www.nicvirtualconference.com/ 

What is the Community Corrections Collaborative Network?

The Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN) is a network comprised of the leading associations representing 90,000-plus probation, parole, pretrial, and treatment professionals around the country, including the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), the Association of Paroling Authorities International (APAI), the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association (FPPOA), the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA), and the National Association of Probation Executives (NAPE).

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016. This solicitation is to develop a survey process for national distribution to corrections agencies and organizations across the corrections continuum. Results of the survey will identify and prioritize needs that will ultimately inform the development of products by NIC to address corrections stress (compassion fatigue, indirect and direct trauma) experienced by staff in institutions and community based settings.

Objectives

The overall objective of this solicitation is to take the results from the nationally distributed survey, the main deliverable of this solicitation, to ultimately guide NIC’s work in the development of initiatives regarding corrections stress over the next 3-5 years. The resulting initiatives ideally can then be adopted across the corrections continuum to assist jurisdictions in identifying and addressing the elements that contribute to corrections stress and create practices that maintain a healthy and productive work force and contribute to sustainable practices that can be adopted and supported by data driven solutions.

The survey format will be designed to identify needs, solicit suggestions, recommendations and ideas that will guide NIC in the development of resources that can assist agencies to identify and address corrections stress with staff and positively impact the organizational culture. In designing the survey process, the contractor should incorporate a number of methods to ‘survey’ which may include on-line and web-based options, paper and pencil surveys, interview processes, etc. A number of other organizations have made inroads in identifying and addressing the elements of corrections stress and may be valuable resources in identifying content to inform the survey. The contractor will document key data sources that contribute to content of the survey process.

DEADLINE: Applications must be received before midnight (ET) on September 7, 2016

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