Building the Necessary Skills to Effectively Engage Clients and Change Behavior

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4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

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Over the last several years NIC has supported efforts to advance the concept of “dosage probation.” The Dosage Probation Model builds on evidence-based and promising practices to restructure sentencing and probation management practices with the goal of improving offender outcomes (i.e., recidivism reduction) and decreasing the costs associated with lengthy supervision terms. The key elements of the Dosage Probation Model include incentivizing offender's engagement in risk reducing activities, ensuring offenders receive interventions and services that have been demonstrated effective in reducing recidivism, and providing the opportunity for early termination from supervision when risk reduction goals have been met. The workshop will focus on the skills and tools utilized by probation officers in one of NIC’s dosage pilot sites—Washington County, Minnesota. NIC staff will also share preliminary plans to provide supports to other agencies as they seek to advance evidence-based supervision practices in their own departments.