2008 Objectives:
During this four-day event nationally
known addiction and criminal justice expects will provide attendees
with solid, up-to-date strategies for working with addicted
criminal offenders. Areas addressed will include; addiction,
cognitive behavior, juveniles, criminal behavior, gender specific
issues, effective treatment exercises, anger management, relapse,
family issues and re-integrating back into the community, to
name a few.
Conference
Objectives:
1. Take attendees
through the addiction process.
2. Strategies
for developing effective programs for reintegrating the offender
back into the community.
3. Understanding
the parallels between addiction and criminal behavior.
4. Understand
the mindset and thinking patterns of today’s incarcerated
drug offender.
5. Explore some
of the special needs of drug offenders, such as mental illness,
sexual abuse, domestic violence, cultural diversity and the
importance of understanding cultural differences in treating
addiction, parenting skills, self-esteem, managing anger violence,
relationships, dual diagnosis and generations of incarceration.
6. Understand
the importance of getting the family involved in the offender’s
recovery.
7. Address the
reasons why many criminal drug offenders build social systems
that promote unhealthy relationships and why they tend to choose
associates who either contribute to their desolation or ignore
it.
8. Understand
how addiction changes the way you think and the way you make
decisions.
9. Become aware
of the possible stumbling blocks to a successful lifestyle change.
10. Better understand
confidentiality within correctional settings and understand
the dynamics of client self-disclosure within a closed system.
11. Better understand
the general treatment of dual diagnosis patients.
12. Identify and
understand the needs of incarcerated children.
13. Learn various
approaches to working with the angry client.
14. Learn strategies
to working with resistant juveniles.
15. Learn behavioral
management strategies designed to reduce intensity of behavioral
acting-out.
16. Be more aware
of the effects of cultural, racial and ethnic similarities and
differences that may impair their work as human service professionals.
17. Provide attendees
the necessary tools to assist the offender in developing a strong
support system when returning to the community.
18. Recognize
that the needs of today’s incarcerated drug offender are
different from the offender of fifteen or twenty years ago,
and to develop strategies for effectively reaching that population.
