Corrections has long been known as a field that is slow to change. A common refrain is: “This is how we’ve always done it.” However, as the field navigates an ongoing staffing crisis, it’s more important than ever to embrace it. This interactive webinar will highlight the need for courageous and bold leadership, emphasizing the ways that formal and informal leaders can drive culture change to create prisons that are saf...

Better care of your mental and emotional health begins with a plan. In this webinar, instructor Kim Colegrove will help you assess where you are on your well-being journey, decide where you want to go, and design a path to get there. Kim will discuss common mental and emotional issues that impact Justice Professionals during and after their careers and offer resources to help offset the fallout from these issues. Attendees will learn simple da...

In this webinar, we will discuss the benefits for a police department or any other first responder agency to have a comfort/facility K-9. We will provide examples of how to use the K-9s with demonstrations properly and explain the process to apply to Puppies Behind Bars and the training they provide to receive one of the K-9s.

In the last decade, the level of complexity in the workplace has increased dramatically and this has created significant challenges for leaders in their day-to-day work. VUCA is a mental model that stands for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The workplace environment and context that VUCA creates is one of constant change, with unclear information and outcomes, unknown variables and drivers, and a lack of clarity about the meaning...

Sometimes it takes new technology to get a new lead on an old, unsolved case. Sometimes, it takes a team to divide and conquer and catch a killer. Learn how to build out a team of dedicated sworn and professional staff on how to reimagine how cold cases can be investigated – and solved – and how efforts to care for victims’ families can bring beneficial results years after a trail runs cold.

In 2016 and 2017, the Jackson County Detention Center was making national headlines for excessive use of force, federal indictments of officers for trafficking in contraband, assaults on staff, and facility conditions that had local media referring to the jail as an “eight-story human rights crisis”. The changes that turned around the facility began with one small focus on better community relations and ultimately resulted in a 74%...

If you are a 911 dispatcher, it’s a safe bet to say that you have been, currently are, or will be stressed out in this profession. If stress is starting to affect your life and job, it doesn’t have to be your downfall. This webinar is geared towards all 911 dispatchers (trainees to seasoned vets) who want to understand more about stress and learn how to help manage it in their daily lives. We will discuss the science of the stress...

In the second part of this webinar series, we provide practitioners with an understanding of how to use the ORBIT model to increase engagement from interviewees and obtain more information in a range of contexts. This includes the key rapport-building principles of Honesty, Empathy, Evocation, Adaptation, Autonomy, and Reflection as well as the interpersonal behavior wheel. The ORBIT model of interviewing has been used in a range of operationa...

With law enforcement under intensive scrutiny, community engagement is more important than ever before. That scrutiny, however, also bred distrust of police, so old engagement strategies may no longer be effective. This panel discussion will share fresh ideas from leaders in community policing that have proven successful around the country. Most of the ideas you can implement at little to no cost with existing resources. If you’re lookin...

In this webinar, we will discuss current cutting-edge issues involving many facets of law enforcement and criminal justice in general. We will examine styles of policing along with their pros and cons, the use of force along with use of force data, and legal issues including case law and liability-related matters such as immunity. We will look at police reform efforts through the ages and what some now propose. We will examine the role of ethi...