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Reentry Simulation: Breaking Barriers
SESSION INFO
Saturday, June 29, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Type: Special Session
Join us for a mind changing simulation that will allow you to think outside the norm concerning the barriers faced by justice-involved individuals upon returning to their communities from prison. The Reentry Simulation illustrates the justice-involved person’s exhaustive journey to self-sufficiency while experiencing the barriers that may contribute to feelings of helplessness and decreased self-efficacy. Assuming the role of an ex-offender, participants will perform tasks related to realistic reentry.
By the end of this 90-minute, eye-opening experience, participants will have simulated a month in the life of someone who has recently been released from prison. Participants will encounter the same challenges faced by many ex-offenders as they try to complete their court-ordered obligations as well as maintain their day-to-day lives. The simulation suggests that, ultimately, the ability to navigate "the system" may be influenced or altered by “us,” the helpers within the system, and this may be a primary factor in the relationship between resiliency and recidivism.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Shanda Breed
Program Manager, AZ Supreme Court/AZ Administrative Office of the Courts
SHANDA BREED is the Director of Adult Probation Services of the AOC under the Arizona Supreme Court. Her team strives for continual quality improvements and providing relevant and evidenced based trainings to Adult County Probation Departments, community partners, and local courts on topics such as sex offender supervision, reentry services and responses, mental health intervention, access to treatment, effective specialty courts, GPS monitoring, transferred youth, EBP assessment and case plans, EPICS-II rollout, state funds, domestic violence, tribal and rural supervision, AmeriCorps memberships and more.
Shanda Breed has worked in the field of probation for the past 24 years. She began as an intern at the Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department in San Antonio, Texas, and has served over 16 years in Northern Arizona for the Navajo County Adult and Juvenile Probation Department with positions of Juvenile Predisposition/Adult Presentence Investigator, Juvenile Standard and Intensive Probation Officer, Adult Standard and Intensive Probation Officer, Field Supervisor, Deputy Chief Probation Officer, and Chief Probation Officer. Her work included implementing Arizona’s first Defensive Tactics training curriculum and its first Firearms Training curriculum as a statewide trainer and implementing Verbal De-escalation and Evidence Based Practices training and policies throughout the state. She was awarded the Arizona Judicial Staff Training of the Year for delivering the popular “Reentry Simulation” training.
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