The Sower Parable & Best Practices for EBP Implementation

There was once a community corrections agency that took great pride in the way its staff, particularly managers, were able...
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Competencies for High-Quality Risk Assessment Interviews

I have been training on a wide variety (e.g., CMC; YLS-CMI; PACT; COMPAS; LSI-R; PCL; SDRRC; ROPE; LS-CMI, ASUS, ASUDS)...
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Identifying the Adaptive Change Target

Have you ever struggled with the dilemma of encouraging high-risk clients to determine what is best for them, versus using...
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Repurposing the EBP Coordinator Role

Prior to ‘What Works’ and soon afterwards EBPs there were few definitive signals about what direction a community corrections organization...
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Simplified Targets for Reducing Recidivism

Thanks to the ground-breaking work of researchers like Ted Palmer, Paul Gendreau, Don Andrews and Jim Bonta, the field of...
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Role Clarification: Why Fuss Over It?

Since Dowden & Andrews’ 2004 meta-analysis on effective staff practices, the corrections field has been on notice that staff approaches...
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Try “Implegration”: Tool #6

As staff develop their individual expertise with new skills, and also expertise on what works and doesn’t work for skill...
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Communities of Practice: Tool #5

In this edition, we take the next step into Communities of Practice – the first “tool for implementation” that engages...
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Decision Support Databases: Tool #4

In this edition, we take the next step into decision support databases, which use the accumulated performance assessment data to...
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Performance Assessment: Tool #3

Performance Assessment, aka “How are we doing with these skills, anyway?”
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