Schedule of Workshops
Congress workshops will include the following with more being added weekly! Please be sure to check our
website, www.aca.org, and your program book on-site, for the latest additions, including dates and times.
• A Funny Look at Inmate Behavior Management
• A Superintendent’s Perspective on Effective Strategies Towards Seclusion Reduction
• ACA Certification
• Accreditation: A Discussion
• Accreditation: Everything You Always Wanted to
Know (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• Aging Population in Corrections
• Alternative Sentencing for Juveniles
• An Overview of the Revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Corrections
• Asking the Tough Questions: How to Keep LGBTI
Populations Safe from Sexual Victimization Starting
With the Intake Screening
• Assessing Your Way through a Successful Individualize Reentry Path
• Background on the Changes to the NIJ Stab Resistant Armor Standard
• Behavioral and Clinical Competencies: Evaluating
“The Fit” in Correctional Nursing
• Bridges to Life: A Restorative Justice Victim
Awareness Program
• Buying Staff by the Hour – Balancing Overtime,
Comp Time and Part-Timers
• Clinical Updates
• Collaboration Provides for Safe and Efficient Tuberculosis Contact Investigation
• College Behind Bars: Too Soft or Very Sensible?
• Combing Spiritual and Faith Based Approaches to
Managing and Resolving Stress and Trauma for
Correctional Staff
• Completing Electronic ACA and PREA Audits
• Contraband Cell Phones Interdiction
• Correctional Industries: Striving for Performance
Excellence through Promising Practices
• Correctional Motivational Interviewing (Better Than
Charades)
• Defining Serious Mental Illness (SMI) in Corrections
• Developing and Opening an Evidence-Based Treatment Unit for Severely Behaviorally Disordered Youth: Lessons Learned
• Diagnosing Mental Illness Using DSM-V
• Distributive Leadership: Identifying and Maximizing
Employee Leadership Potential in the Workplace
• Effectively Managing an On-Site Chemotherapy
Program (OChIP)
• Effectively Managing Pharmacy Costs
• Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Systematic
Approach to Achieving Safer Communities
• Evidence-Based Research from the Perspective of a
Community Correction Private Provider
• Facility Planning and Budgeting Resources for Correctional Practitioners
• Five Essential Keys to a Successful DOJ Prison
Rape Elimination Act Audit
• Gender Dysphoria and Corrections
• Gender Responsive Practices: Redesigning Youth Agency
• Greening Prisons: Outcomes and Impacts
• Hepatitis C
• HER Implementation: Lessons Learned During
Rollout of HER Within a Large Prison System
• How to Build a Successful Field Training Program
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Workshops will be held Saturday, August 15, through Tuesday, August 18.
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Schedule of Workshops
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Congress workshops will include the following with more being added weekly! Please be sure to check our
website, www.aca.org, and your program book on-site, for the latest additions, including dates and times.
• Human Trafficking: A Captive Audience
• Hunger Strikes – Legal, Medical, and Mental Health
Implications
• Implementing Sustainable Practices in Jails, Developing a Plan
• Incarcerated Females and the Cradle to Grave Challenges
• Indianapolis Consolidated Justice Center – The 30 Year Solution
• Intergrating Health Care CQI Initiative into Prison
Operations
• Integration of Evidence-Based Practices into the
Therapeutic Community Model
• Law, Order and Treatment: What Works for Offenders Involved in the Criminal Justice System
• Litigation Management for Correctional Health Care
in an Environment of Constant Change
• Making Sure We Do Not Lose The C In Care
• Managing Crisis Situations in a Residential Reentry
Center
• Managing Security Threat Group Populations in
Corrections Today
• Managing Waste Manages Dollars
• Mental Illness in Restrictive Housing – Overcome
Challenges in Your Jurisdiction (Part I and II)
• Mentoring and Equipping Treatment Staff to Lead
and Manage in Correctional Healthcare
• Mission Accomplishment: Does your Basic Academy Support it?
• Nursing Care of the Female Inmate
• Ohio’s Path to Safer Facilities – A Systems Approach to Reducing Seclusion & Violence
• On Boarding: The Newlywed Game
• Opening Avenues to Reentry Success (OARS)
• Opioid Substitution Therapy in Corrections: Medications, Models, and Results
• Performance Contracting – Best Practice
• Preparing Yourself for a Bad Day – Crisis Rehearsal
• Prison Terminal: Life and Death in a Prison Hospice
• Promoting Human Rights in Corrections: Strategies
and Outcomes
• Promising Practices in the Housing of Immigration
Detainees in a Jail
• Providing Care for the Female Inmate: What Makes
it Work?
• Providing Inmate Access to the Courts: U.S. Prison
Strategies for Complying with Constitutional Rights
• Purposeful Incarceration
• Reentry: The Price is Right
• Religious Rights of Inmates: An Update from RLUIPA to the Holt case
• Running Effective Chronic Disease Clinic in Correctional Setting
• SAVRY – Structured Assessment of Violence Risk
in Youth
• Secure Connected Tablet Solution to Enhance Educational Opportunities Behind Bars
• Sex Offender Treatment in Louisiana’s Secure Care
Facilities: Course, Efficacy and Outcome
• Should Juveniles Be Placed in Restrictive Housing?
• Staff Sexually Involved with Youth: An Interview
from Behind Bars
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Workshops will be held Saturday, August 15, through Tuesday, August 18.
Schedule of Workshops
Continued from page 18
Congress workshops will include the following with more being added weekly! Please be sure to check our
website, www.aca.org, and your program book on-site, for the latest additions, including dates and times.
• Starting a Healthy Worksite Program in a Correctional Environment
• Substance Use Treatment in Corrections
• Surprising Developments in the History of Women’s
Prisons
• Telling Our Story (Training)
• The 20 Essential Principles of Victim Offender
Dialogue
• The Case for Secure Connectivity – Mobile Device
and Internet Use in Corrections Classroom
• The Changing Volunteer Culture in Corrections
• The Emanuel Project: Art Intervention for At Risk
Youths
• The Impact Corrections Work Has on Our Body,
Mind and Spirit and How to Keep Our Balance
• The Importance of Therapeutic Relationships in
Correctional Programs
• The Indiana Department of Correction’s INSOMM
Program: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Treating and Supervising Sexual Offenders
• The Latest Updates on Implementation Resources
and Audits
• The Louisiana Model (LaMOD): Ten Years of Juvenile Justice Reform
• The Multi-Generational Workforce
• The Use of Force: Recommendations for Administrators
• Trauma and Substance Abuse: Co-Occurrence and
Implications for Treatment in a Juvenile Correctional Setting
• Treatment Mall: Program Services for the Mentally Ill
• Trends in Accreditation
• Tricks of the Trade: Practical Tips for Trauma-
Informed Correctional Case Management
• Understanding the Impact of Trauma in the Lives of
the Individuals in the Criminal Justice System
• Updates on PPACA
• U.S. Department of Labor Apprenticeship in Corrections: The Indiana Approach
• Utilizing Inmate Health Companions to Maximize
Safety in a Correctional Setting
• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Corrections’ Responsibilities
• What’s Your Problem?
• Wheel LIFE (Liberation, Freedom and Empowerment)
• Working with Sexual Offenders: Cultural Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Treatment
• Your Data Knows: Using Electronic Monitoring
Data to Predict What’s Next
Workshops will be held Saturday, August 15, through Tuesday, August 18.
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