Engaging Communities in Criminal Justice Solutions:

The Role of Volunteers

April 24-26, 2008

Holiday Inn Select City Centre

515 South St., Lafayette, IN

(765)423-1000

50 rooms are being held at the Holiday Inn Select under Engaging Communities in Criminal Justice Solutions: The Role of the Volunteer at a special discounted rate.  The rooms are going quick so please reserve your room as soon as possible!

Sponsored by: Tippecanoe County Volunteers in Probation

Please join us for this international conference exploring the role of community volunteers in the criminal justice system.

April 24

Pre-Session

10:30 am- 1:00 pm Dr. Pedro Noguera - School to Prison Pipeline & Closing the Achievement                                  Gap in Schools.  Click here for more information. Note: Q&A for Dr. Noguera                               over lunch from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. 

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm     Welcome

April 24

Conference

2:00 pm -- 3:15 pm    Mark Carey - Evidence Based Practices in corrections and the role of the                                 community in offender rehabilitation. 

3:30 pm -- 5:00 pm   Anne Seymour - How Volunteers Can assist with Domestic Violence                                          Courts and Victims.   Click here to See Anne's bio info.

6:00 pm -- Discussion Dinners (local restaurants on your own or in groups). 

  Click here to see a few of Downtown Lafayette's finest restaurants.

April 25

8:00 am -- 9:00 am   Breakfast

9:00 am --10:30 am          Breakout Sessions

I. Art Femister, California Volunteer Programs for Law Enforcement. 

II. Jerry Dash, “Show Me the Money”  Detroit, MI.  Jerry Dash will talk candidly about     

           writing grants for volunteer programs. 

III. Harry Brown,  Boiler Network (Purdue University) Harry Brown will present on 

            volunteer recruitment, training and sustainability.

IV. Michael Denton, Head of Offender Management and Public Protection,

            HM Young Offender Institution, Thorn Cross, Warrington, UK and  Bill Spiby,   

            Coordinating Manager, HM Prison Service, Head of Business Management, 

            IMPACT Project. Mike and Bill will deliver complementary and linked presentations,

                     

10:45 am – 12:00 pm    Breakout Sessions

I. Jerry Mallory, Mentor with Volunteers in Probation, Tippecanoe County Probation, 

          Lafayette, IN-  Jerry Mallory will discuss mentoring from the mentor and

          probationers perspective. She will discuss mentoring lessons learned about

       II. Michael Denton -- Head of Offender Management and Public Protection,

           HM Young Offender Institution, Thorn Cross, Warrington, UK. Mike proposes

       III. Bill Spiby -- Coordinating Manager, HM Prison Service Head of Business   

           Management, IMPACT Project, UK.

IV.  Dr. Bill Elliott -- Dr. Elliott is currently the Director of Mental Health & Behavioral

             Management  for the Indiana Department of Correction.  He retired from the

     Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2004 following a 20-year career during which he

     served as Staff Psychologist and Chief Psychologist at the U.S. Penitentiary in

     Terre Haute, Indiana.  Dr. Elliott was employed as a counselor and administrator

     at Rockville Training Center from 1974 to 1984, and served as Lead Psychologist

     at Rockville Correctional Facility from 2004 to 2006.  He has served as Adjunct

     Assistant Professor of Criminology at Indiana State University for over 25 years. In

     addition, Dr. Elliott is the author of Game Over! Strategies for Managing Inmate

     Deception, published in 2002 by the American Correctional Association- Dr. Elliot

     will discuss criminal/ anti-social thinking and strategies for volunteers working

     with offenders.

12:00 pm -- 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm -- 2:45 pm  Program Panel- Representatives from judicial, law enforcement

  corrections, and various volunteer programs- program representatives

  will briefly present on their programs and open for questions.

3:00 pm -- 4:30 pm         Breakout Sessions

I.    Dr. Hall, David J. Liebel -- Assistant Director, Religious Services, Indiana

     Department of Correction and Christina Williams, Program Manager, Community

            Corrections Division, Indiana Department of Correction- David Liebel and

     Christina Williams will present on how  volunteers work within the prison system.

 

II.   IYI – Central Indiana Field Staff, Indiana Youth Institute- will present information on              forming collaborations with other agencies.

III. Dr. Thomas Sexton --  Center for Adolescent and Family Studies in the School of

     Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN- Administrative staff will offer information

     and strategies for connecting with the academic community.

IV. Joann Vorst, Director of Lafayette Adult Resource Academy, Lafayette, IN- 

    Ms. Vorst will discuss how educational programs in the community can address needs of

    those incarcerated. 

April 26

8:00 am --  9:00  am   Continental Breakfast

9:30 am -- 10:45 am   Breakout Sessions

I.    Dr. Cindy Koh-Knox, Purdue School of Pharmacy, Purdue University- Dr. Koh-

     Knox, through University Partnerships,  will present on how Pharm-D candidates help in

     local problem-solving courts and also how community pharmacists can help.

II.   Leta Kelly & Ellen Phelps, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)- Ms. Kelly

     and Ms. Phelps, CASA volunteers will tell of their experiences and how to get involved in

     CASA.

III.   Dennis Tooley- Central Indiana Field Staff, Indiana Youth Institute- Mr. Tooley will

present “40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents”, Search Institute, and discuss the

              community’s role as an external asset for helping adolescents become caring

responsible adults.

IV.  Al Kaczkowski (Volunteers in Probation Mentoring)- Al has worked for Oakland

County, MI Probate /Circuit Court for 32 years. He will present on the programs that VIP

Mentoring has developed in an effort to identify young people before they become active

in the justice system. Click here to learn more about Al Kaczkowski and program

information.

10:45 am -- 11:15 am Break

11:15 am -- 12:00 pm       Closing Speaker -- Judge Keith Leenhouts, Co-Director, Court                                Volunteer Services, National Judicial College. 

                                      

12:00 pm -- Close Conference

VOLUNTEERS    IN    PROBATION

Since 12-28-07

Dr. Pedro Noguera - School to Prison Pipeline & Closing the Achievement Gap in Schools.  Click here for more information.

Mark Carey - Evidence based practices and the and value of community involvement in the reduction of offender recidivism.  Click here for more information.

Keynote Speaker

Pre-Session Speaker

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Closing Speaker

Judge Keith Leenhouts, Co-Director, Court                                 Volunteer Services, National Judicial College.  Click here for more information.

whose theme is the Evaluation of the effectiveness of Mentoring. Mike’s perspective

will be the setting of evaluation criteria based on project targets and objectivs, and the evaluation and measurement of soft and hard project outcomes. He will base this on work he is currently undertaking on developing a useable mentoring evaluation model. Bill will look at the long and successful experience of the IMPACT Project, and will be detailing   findings from his thesis recently submitted to the Cambridge Institute of Criminology regarding  motivation levels of offenders to engage with resettlement provision, in particular the 4 mentoring options (peer, community one-to-one, business mentor and circles of support) available on the project. Data from 459 participants has been used to identify trends in motivation by gender, age, ethnicity, and education level. These have then been analysed  further to identify correlations between mentoring and increases in motivation. 

risk and reoffending.  This will include the distinction between risk of reoffending and risk of causing serious harm; understanding risk in terms of likelihood and impact; how mentors can recognise and react to changes in levels of risk; and how mentors might be supported when risk issues cause concern.

presenting on the issue of Risk in the Mentoring illustration of how  the Circles of Support model can be applied to work with sex offenders in both reducing reoffending and in assisting these offenders to set up opportunities for them to become self-employed. He will give feedback on a number of case studies; not just from successful participants but also those that failed to engage or relapsed.

For bio and historical information click here. Additional Info:

http://www.rj-systems.com/serv05.htm

http//www.olemiss.edu/depts/mjc/Resources.pdf

Art Femister;  “Law Enforcement Volunteer Uses”.  Mr. Femister is the President and Founder of the National Association Citizens On Patrol, www.nacop.org,  in addition to founding and being the principal instructor  of the Public Safety Volunteer Institute, www.psvi.org   Mr. Femister has taught workshops on the subject of “How to Recruit, Manage, Reward and Retain Volunteers” to over 600 law enforcement agencies during the last five years.