A National Study on the Impact of Supervision Fees on Adult Probation Agency Budgets and Operations

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Megan Foster is a doctoral student at the University of Utah’s College of Social Work. Her research focuses on gender responsive programs, criminal justice, violence and victimization, resiliency, and trauma-responsivity. Previously, she was a program analyst with the American Probation and Parole Association. In this role, she managed and supported a variety of grant-funded projects. These projects ranged from training and technical assistance to research and evaluation of community supervision programs. Her projects have included workforce and workload issues, tribal program, victims’ issues in community supervision, justice reform and implementation of evidence-based practices. Prior to APPA, she worked as a direct practitioner and program manager in victims’ services and reentry programs. She has specialized experience working in reentry with women and families as well as training and implementation of trauma-informed practices and programs. Megan received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from the George Washington University and her Master’s in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.

Katie Green is a Correctional Program Specialist with the National Institute of Corrections overseeing and actively participating in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of resources to enhance the competencies of criminal justice practitioners. Prior to joining NIC 11 years ago, Katie was the Director of community corrections agencies in Williamsburg and Portsmouth, Virginia. She also served as an implementation team member in the Commonwealth of Virginia leading organizational change efforts, improving pretrial and community corrections services and programming with the implementation of evidence- based practices. Included in her portfolio with NIC, Katie manages resource development for community supervision organizations to include leadership training and professional development for staff that provide direct supervision to persons under community supervision. Katie also over sees training and technical assistance projects to advance the work of community supervision organizations. Currently she is managing the development and implementation of the Community Supervision Leadership Learning Lab and Facilitating Behavior Change trainings. Katie is also developing resources and training for local criminal justice systems, with a focus on maximizing the role of Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils (CJCCs) to improve criminal justice system operations.

Dr. Sarver received her PhD in Social Work from the University of Utah in 2019 and has conducted research in the fields of criminal and juvenile justice, homelessness, family well-being, and mental health since 2008. Dr. Sarver is the Associate Director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center. She is an expert in qualitative methods and has considerable experience leading criminal justice research projects for more than ten years. She has served as project manager on multiple federal and state-funded research projects examining offender reentry, probation and parole practice, and criminal justice policy. She is experienced in a range of qualitative analytic methods, including content analysis, narrative analysis, framework analysis, and grounded theory. She is certified to conduct the Correctional Program Checklist (CPC), a program assessment that measures fidelity to evidence-based correctional treatment practices, and has been conducting CPC assessments in juvenile and criminal justice settings since 2012.

Ray Wahl is a partner with JustUs Consulting Consortium. After working 45 years in the Community Corrections field, he retired in 2019. He began his career in community corrections as a probation and parole officer for Utah Adult Probation and Parole. He held several management positions in that organization and in 1989 was appointed Director; one of the few career service employees to serve in that position. In 1998, he began working for the Utah Courts as the Juvenile Court Administrator where he oversaw both court and probation activities. He was appointed Deputy Court Administrator in 2012 and served in that position until his retirement. He served as President of the American Probation and Parole Association from 1999 to 2001 and has been a member of APPA since 1983.He has received a number of awards including the Walter Dunbar Award, the Probation Executive of the Year and the Russell VanVleet Award from the Utah Criminal Justice Center. He has done international consulting in Trinidad and Tobago, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Colombia. He serves as a volunteer in 2nd District Court as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and is a member of the Guardian Ad Litem Oversight panel.