Safety Matters: Managing Relationship in Women’s Facilities

Call for Training Participants Safety Matters: Relationships in Women’s Facilities

Application Deadline:  January 13, 2023 5pm Eastern Time. 

Contact Person: Glenn Watson, NIC Correctional Program Specialist at g2watson@bop.gov

Description
Safety Matters: Managing Relationships in Women’s Facilities is a training designed to build capacity among correctional practitioners to implement policies and practices that support safe and healthy relationships with and among incarcerated women. The training is based on research and correctional best practice. At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to use communication skills as a component to effectively manage relationships with incarcerated women respectfully and intervene in unsafe situations. This is an advanced curriculum designed to build upon pre-existing gender-responsive knowledge, motivational interviewing skills, and understanding of Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards and strategies to support sexual safety.

This program includes the full participant training for up to 30 participants and a training of trainers for up to 15 participants.

This program will be delivered virtually, including video microlearnings and a series of interactive online sessions.

Virtual Safety Matters Curriculum

Program

Title

Class Time

Session 1: Women in Facilities
What do we know and what do we see?

Module 1

Women in Facilities: What Do We Know?

  • Microlearning 1 (30 minutes): Units 1.1 – 1.4
  • Virtual Training 1 Morning (2 hours): Units 1.5 – 1.6 and Application Activities

2.5 hours

Module 2

The Dynamics of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse in Women’s Facilities: What Do We See?

  • Microlearning 2 (30 minutes): Units 2.1 – 2.2
  • Virtual Training 1 Afternoon (2 Hours): Units 2.1 – 2.2 Application Activities

2.5 hours

Intersession Activity Presentation Development

1.75 hours

Session 2: Managing Relationships in Women’s Facilities
What do we do and how do we do it?

Module 3

Operational Implications: What Do We Do?

  • Microlearning 3 (30 minutes): Unit 3.5
  • Microlearning 4 (30 minutes): Units 3.6 – 3.7
  • Virtual Training 2 Morning (2 hours): Unit 3.1 and Intersession Activity Presentations
  • Virtual Training 2 Afternoon (2 hours): Units 3.2 – 3.4 Application Activities

5 hours

Module 4

Operational Implications: How do we do it?

  • Virtual Training 3 Morning (2 hours) and Afternoon (2 hours): Communication Skill Application Activities
  • Microlearning 5 (15 minutes): Lab Character Introduction

4.25 hours
  • Virtual Training 4 Morning (2 hours): Lab 1
  • Virtual Training 4 Afternoon (2 hours): Lab 2

4 hours
  • Virtual Training 5 Morning (2 hours): Lab 3
  • Virtual Training 5 Afternoon (2 hours): Memorable Messages and Resource Identification Application Activities

4 hours
   

Total Class Time:

24 hours

This program will be delivered virtually and will include teams of 5-7 representatives from a variety of agencies around the country.

  • Program Dates
    • Initial Virtual Instructor-Led Training
      • February 7 and February 21-24, 2023
    • Training of Trainers
      • April 4-7, 2023

Who Should Attend

Safety Matters is designed for correctional staff who routinely interact with incarcerated women in adult prisons and jails. This solicitation is seeking applications from jails and prisons. This is not a basic gender-responsive training program. Participants who have completed and incorporated into daily practice, at a minimum, gender-responsive training, motivational interviewing or other cognitive behavioral training, and training in the application of PREA standards will be given more favorable consideration.

This is a team training. Participation in this event requires each agency to apply with a team of 4 to 6 staff members. Preference will be given to teams with cross-discipline and cross-hierarchy representation. Each team member must receive approval from their agency’s leadership and meet individual requirements noted in the previous paragraph. One member of the agency’s proposed team must serve as the team lead for submitting the application and as the contact person between the agency and NIC.

Agency Requirements

  • Agency state and name (ex: Colorado Dept. of Corrections)
  • List names of four proposed team members (ex: L. Smith, F. Jones, T. Green, P. Brown) and up to two additional names for consideration if training slots allow.
  • Affirmation Letter printed on agency letterhead signed by an agency’s executive leader (Secretary, Director, Commissioner). [Template download on application page]
  • Each team member must participate fully in all scheduled events.

Individual Requirements

  • Individual team member names (4 required, up to 2 additional participants is optional) and the following items [Link to Individual Form provided at completion of Leader application submittal]:
    • Position
    • Email address
    • A summary statement highlighting each member’s experience in corrections and relevant training skills.
    • Name/contact information for each member’s supervisor
  • The training that staff working at the women’s facilities in your agency have received, including:
    • PREA employee training
    • Gender-responsive training
    • Motivational interviewing and/or other cognitive behavioral training
    • Other relevant training

* If you’re interested in applying…..this is what we will need from you:

-A designated person from your agency as the Team Leader to fill out the "Safety Matters Team Lead Commitment & Application" Here https://info.nicic.gov/form/node/13
  This form includes a downloadable “Affirmation Letter” the Team Leader & the Chief Executive Officer will print out on agency letterhead, fill out, sign, and upload to the form.
-Each potential Safety Matters team member trainee from your agency will complete the “Individual Response Form”  Link will be shared at the end of Commitment Application.