Description
Therapeutic Engagement and Intervention Across the Criminal-Legal Sequential Intercept Model
A four-part webinar series
Dates: March 13, April 10, May 8, & June 12 | 9am-12pm
Live via Zoom
Description:
The goal of this four-part webinar series is to provide participants with a detailed examination of key opportunity points for therapeutic engagement with this adult population in institutional and community settings to enhance treatment practices and coordination with corrections.
Learning objectives:
• Understand the sequential intercept model and how it applies to the criminal-legal continuum
• Understand the role of community services and crisis intervention teams in diverting justice involved individuals away from incarceration and into treatment
• Understand diversion, pretrial release, and the treatment and recovery courts
• Learn how behavioral health screening and assessment can inform criminal-legal decision making, including how court processes occur and where treatment fits in
• Learn about the various assessment tools available
• Examine how screening, assessment, and treatment can assist in an individuals’ trajectory across the criminal legal continuum
• Examine the continuum against key decision points, from pre-booking diversion, pretrial release, treatment and recovery courts, probation, incarceration, supervised community confinement, to community integration and reentry.
Agenda:
- Session 1 (March 13): Overview of The Sequential Intercept Model
- How behavioral health screening and assessment informs pre-booking, post-booking, and other community corrections and carceral decision points.
- Session 2 (April 10): Intercept 0 (Community Services) & Intercept 1 (Law Enforcement)
- Best treatment practices with criminal-legal-involved adults
- Role of community services in diversion to treatment
- Police-mental health collaboration
- The role of a crisis intervention team, including peer professionals
- Session 3 (May 8): Intercept 2 (Initial Detention) & Intercept 3 (Initial Court Hearings)
- Understanding the court’s key decision points
- Pretrial services and other diversion options
- Deferred disposition/bail
- Screening/assessment instruments
- Culture comparison: correctional vs treatment vs court
- How to engage a justice-involved individual
- Treatment and recovery courts
- Peer professionals and restorative practices
- Risk/need/responsivity model
- Session 4 (June 12): Intercept 4 (Re-Entry) & Intercept 5 (Community Corrections)
- Probation and parole
- Supervised community confinement program
- The role of peer professionals
- Outpatient treatment with pretrial and probation clients
- Community reintegration and reentry
- Restorative practices
Facilitator:
Elizabeth Simoni, JD
Executive Director, Maine Pretrial Services
Contact Hours (total for all 4 sessions)
12 Category I contact hours for Psychologists are provided. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
12 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
Certificate of attendance for 12 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and other professionals.
12 contact hours for alcohol & drug counselors. This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Partial credit is available with certificates issued per session. 3 contact hours per session.
