Justice Strategy 5.1 - Increasing Provider Capacity to Serve Cognitively Impaired Offenders (Offender Evaluation)
Project Description:
The Increase Provider Capacity to Better Serve Cognitively Impaired
Offenders project builds community behavioral health provider skills and capacity to assume additional risk & time serving offenders with cognitive impairments. The project will provide train-the-trainer workshops for identified community providers on an Alaska-specific Friendship and Dating/Social Skills curriculum for individuals who experience cognitive impairments who are, or at-risk of becoming, offenders. Trained facilitators will conduct a 10 week consumer training for at least six Trust Beneficiaries in their respective communities. In addition to receiving the train-the-trainer workshop, the facilitators will also receive clinical consultation, ongoing technical assistance, and have access to a web-based
clearinghouse of supplemental training resources and materials.
In addition, the project will coordinate eight topic specific
audio-conferences for community providers who want to increase their
knowledge, skills, and abilities working with consumers who are, or at-risk of offending. The topics for the audio-conferences will be identified by a small subcommittee of past participants in the project's trainings and conferences.
Core Function(s):
Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote, Urban, Specific Groups, Other
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
