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Reimagine Your Role as a Community Supervision Professional
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Over the last 100 years, the role of the community supervision officer has vacillated between law enforcement-like duties and social worker-like practices. Most recently, there has been a reframing of the officer’s role—setting aside the law enforcement/social work dichotomy—to define the officer’s role as a coach. An officer as a coach provides people under community supervision with encouragement and support that directs them toward behavior change. To help prepare probation and parole officers move from the framing of their positions as referees to that of coaches, NIC, through a cooperative agreement with Justice System Partners, developed a series of short how-to microskill videos. The videos are designed to help enhance the existing core correctional practice skills that officers use. They are agnostic to the curriculum or assessment being used and can be used to guide the development of probation and parole officers’ skills in behavioral change interventions.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Gregory Ronald Crawford
Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute of Corrections
Greg Crawford is a Correctional Program Specialist at the National Institute of Corrections (NIC). In addition to having a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Chapman University, Greg has extensive leadership and criminal justice experience, which includes more than 20 years working in a misdemeanant probation department and a community-based mental health center prior to joining NIC. At NIC, Greg developed the Veterans Compendium Project. The Veterans Compendium Project is a series of publications that spans the continuum of justice and focuses on veteran-specific programming in the criminal justice system and the community. Greg’s other projects at NIC includes projects around dosage-based probation, pretrial, reentry, and developing a resource library of videos for community supervision officers to use as a guide throughout the community supervision process. He is a US Air Force veteran passionate about improving the lives of those who served our country.
Kevin R Kuehmeier
Senior Associate, Justice System Partners
Kevin Kuehmeier is a Senior Associate at JSP. He currently works assisting criminal and juvenile legal systems and community partners with transforming their systems. Mr. Kuehmeier provides technical assistance to several jurisdictions involved in the Safety and Justice Challenge through the MacArthur Foundation to safely reduce jail populations, eliminate ineffective and unfair practices, and reduce racial disparities. He provides pretrial assessment training and implementation assistance, strategic planning assistance, and is working with the National Institute of Corrections assisting with leadership development and training, Organizational Coaching Assessment assistance in several jurisdictions, and development of resource videos for community supervision professionals. Mr. Kuehmeier has 25 years of experience working for the U.S. Courts - Federal Probation and Pretrial Services. He has 12 years of experience working as an Administrator with the U.S. Courts providing national organizational assessment, technical assistance, and recommendations regarding policy and procedure improvements. He was at the forefront of policy development and national training and implementation regarding evidence-based practices, assessments for pretrial and probation, supervision of those on pretrial and post-conviction, treatment services, and core correctional practices. He received a BS and MS in Criminal Justice from Buffalo State University.
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