Community Continuum of Care
For each parole region, ensures optimal working relationships and problem-solving strategies in the areas of healthy living, how to handle adverse events, offender criminogenic need and risk reduction, housing, work and employment, and family and psychological stabilization. Addresses effective community-based services for parolees and specific challenges facing service providers.
In-Prison Cross Training
Five-day training designed to create an environment where successful treatment can take place. This is accomplished by providing intense team-building and problem-solving for both treatment provider and custody staff groups to ensure the consistent application of evidence-based treatment principles in a safe and secure setting.
In-Service Training
A condensed training for DARS staff to ensure knowledge, skill, and application of substance abuse treatment protocols are consistent with nationally standardized counselor competencies tailored to fit a criminal justice environment.
Specialized Training and Technical Assistance
Learning needs are determined in conjunction with program managers and management, leading to specialized curriculum development and delivery.
This five-part series totaling twenty days of training is designed for counselors in the beginning of their careers. The entire series takes five months to finish, with one session offered each month. The location varies by series and rotates between the Sacramento Region, the Central San Joaquin Valley and the Southern California Inland Empire area. The WFD trainings emphasize working with criminal justice populations.
This two and a half day conference focuses on a wide range of issues including screening and assessment of offenders, cognitive behavior strategies, reentry strategies, co-occurring disorders, Drug Court and Prop 36 experiences as well as the San Diego Reentry Program.
The institute goal is to provide new knowledge, skills, theories, practices, and research findings applicable to cooperative and collaborative efforts (such as community care and transition, comprehensive services, assessment, cultural competence).
The annual Raising the Bar Symposium is designed to explore gender-responsive substance abuse treatment issues for women offenders.
Research to Practice Symposium
A two-day leadership symposium designed to bring together national experts and a groups of policymakers from the legislature, Governor’s Office, CDCR, and DARS to review research data, application examples, promising modalities and program designs, identify barriers and challenges, and then focus on practical application to daily operations.
The Summer Clinical Institute offers lectures, workshops, and discussion sessions featuring University of California faculty and other experts that focus on science-based strategies and practices for those providing health and social services for patients and clients who may be troubled by alcohol and other drug use.
