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Discussion and sharing of resources in working with clients involved in the criminal justice system and how screening for and treating ACEs will lead to successful re-entry of prisoners into the community and reduced recidivism for former offenders.

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of synthesizing resources and best practices for trauma-informed services for formerly incarcerated populations.  I am specifically interested in community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment services, housing related assistance, job-training assistance, and case management and civil legal services.  Do any of you have good examples or models of trauma-informed care for these types of services, specifically for formerly incarcerated youth or adults?  I know it is a broad topic.  Would love any resources that you know of and want to share.

Thank you!

Stephanie

 

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Stephanie Guinosso posted:

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of synthesizing resources and best practices for trauma-informed services for formerly incarcerated populations.  I am specifically interested in community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment services, housing related assistance, job-training assistance, and case management and civil legal services.  Do any of you have good examples or models of trauma-informed care for these types of services, specifically for formerly incarcerated youth or adults?  I know it is a broad topic.  Would love any resources that you know of and want to share.

Thank you!

Stephanie

 

Hi Stephanie - in Lancaster County, PA, we have been working over the past several years to "build the foundation for a trauma-informed criminal justice system". We started by providing the following trainings for criminal justice professionals, using nationally developed curricula:

1) trained entire staff of our county prison and entire staff of our county adult probation & parole department using SAMHSA's "How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses" (400 CO's and PO's trained to date) - https://www.samhsa.gov/gains-c...ustice-professionals

2) trained law enforcement with a 2-hour module on trauma, ACEs research, neuroscience of trauma & resilience that we have added to the week-long Crisis Intervention Trainings (CIT) that we do here for law enforcement. (over 100 officers trained to date with our added trauma module as part of CIT)    http://www.citinternational.org/Learn-About-CIT

3) trained law enforcement with a 2-hour course from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) titled "Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents"  (over 200 officers trained to date)

https://www.theiacp.org/resour...sted-parents-toolkit 

We are now looking at SAMHSA's curriculum for trauma-informed courts - titled "How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Judicial Decision-Making" - https://www.samhsa.gov/gains-c...ustice-professionals 

I know this is a somewhat different angle on what you may have been looking for, but wanted to provide the links to these training curricula in case it's helpful.  Best regards,

Melanie

Take a look at Concordance Academy's website, www.concordanceacademy.org. We are a reentry non-profit in St Louis working with justice-involved adults. While we're still working on being trauma informed, we are trauma aware and TIC is a never ending work in progress!  

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