Informational Workshops
Informational Workshop: Comprehensive Estate Planning Workshop for Probation Professionals
April 12, 2024
This workshop topic includes Estate Planning, which will cover each vital component of a comprehensive plan: Revocable Living Trusts, Wills, Power of Attorney, Advanced Medical Directives, and HIPAA Authorizations. Tailored for law enforcement professionals, this session delves into their unique circumstances. Whether you’re already on the path of estate planning or just starting, all are welcome to attend and gain valuable insights.
Speakers:
Informational Workshop: Beyond Normative Environments to Normative Living: Best Practices from around the Country
April 5, 2024
Reshaping the approach to service for justice-involved youth requires experience that is supported by both creative and proven design solutions for the environment. During this informational workshop, subject matter experts will share evidence-based best practices for trauma-responsive facilities that reflect a model for the future. A variety of examples of rehabilitative programming facilities and contemporary secure housing in normative, campus-style settings will be featured, as well as a discussion on reimagining existing facilities.
Informational Workshop: Utilizing Tutoring for Re-Entry, College Access, & Accelerated Learning Opportunities
February 23, 2024
This 1.5-hour webinar will feature a presentation by our Probation Partner, Air Tutor. Air Tutor is also a proud partner of Lake and San Joaquin County Offices of Education and their goal is to bring a white-gloved educational experience to facilities and ensure that students are brought up to grade level, reenter their community with success, and flourish in their post-graduate aspirations.
Informational Workshop: Utilizing Child-Specific Funds to Maximize the Opportunity for Success for Youth in Foster Care with Complex Needs
September 29, 2023
This 1.5-hour webinar covers complex care child-specific funds to support youth who are in foster care with complex needs. The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) provides a high-level overview of this funding resource. Additionally, San Bernardino County Probation Department shares their experience submitting for and utilizing complex care child-specific funds. This workshop will also include how to easily complete the child-specific request form.
Informational Workshop: CalAIM: Justice-Involved Initiative Overview and Policy Implementation
June 16, 2023
A focused discussion on the CalAIM Justice-Involved Initiative’s policy and implementation mandates that impact both adult probation and juvenile correctional facilities. The workshop includes a brief overview and information to assist with preparation, planning and implementation to meet the CalAIM mandate at the local level. A Q&A follows the presentation.
Speaker:
Brenda Grealish, Executive Director
Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health
Informational Workshop: Partnering with the California Conservation Corps – Opportunities Available for Young Adults on Probation
May 19, 2023
The California Conservation Corps (CCC) is a program serving young adults age 18 to 25 years by providing them paid service. The CCC has both residential and non-residential programs in 24 locations across the state. During this informational workshop, the CCC Director, will share opportunities for partnership and programs available to eligible justice-involved young people for whom probation supervises and supports on either juvenile or adult probation.
Speaker:
Bruce Saito, Director, California Conservation Corps
Informational Workshop: County Spotlight: Fresno Probation’s SB 823 Less Restrictive Program Design
March 3, 2023
This presentation from Fresno County Probation where they will provide an overview of the early stages of their program design for their less restrictive programming, part of their efforts to implement the Welfare and Institutions Code 875 Juvenile Justice Service Continuum. This session is intended to highlight their work to date which is still in progress, how they got to where they are, and where they are aiming to go once complete.
Speaker:
Chief Kirk Haynes – Chief Probation Officer, Fresno County Probation
Informational Workshop: CASOMB’s Guidelines for Treating and Supervising Youth Who Have Committed a Sexual Offense
February 17, 2023
This presentation will provide an overview of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) guidelines, their development and how they can be utilized.
Speaker:
Heather Bowlds, Psy D., Director, Division of Juvenile Justice
Watch here: https://youtu.be/WXQuT7jLfmY
Informational Workshop: Lessons from the AB 372 Pilot
February 10, 2023
Kevin O’Connell will review findings from the AB 372 Domestic Violence Pilot, which gave 6 counties the flexibility to offer varied DV program lengths using a combination of risk assessment and a written evidencebased DV curriculum to offer probationers with 1203.097 terms. Kevin will review components of structured decision-making used by counties to incorporate the risk of recidivism and risk of intimate partner violence, as well as review curriculum options used by pilot counties as their evidence of efficacy and meeting needs beyond court mandated programming.
Informational Workshop: Partnering with the Department of Rehabilitation to Support Employment Goals for Justice-Involved Individuals
January 27, 2023
The Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) provides career and employment services to eligible individuals with disabilities to support their long-term success and independence. During this informational workshop DOR will provide information on how to access services including describing eligibility requirements, the vocational rehabilitation process, and on the many services and supports available to individuals with disabilities.
Informational Workshop: California Prison Industry Authority Labor Programs within Division of Juvenile Justice Institutions
November 4, 2022
Topic 1: Developing Labor Programs within California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities:
The implementation of California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) adult Career Technical Education (CTE) labor programs within Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) institutions. What steps did PIA take to establish, develop, and maintain a partnership with local labor unions to implement a labor pre-apprentice program with DJJ and adult facilities.
Informational Workshop: Youth in Foster Care: Building Out Your Continuum of Care From Family Finding to Complex Needs
October 28, 2022
This virtual workshop will include information on the complex care funding, how to access it, and how it can apply to support youth in your care. Additionally, there will be an overview of the new Center of Excellence which will support Family Finding and Engagement, the Flexible Family Support Funding, and the Family Finding and Engagement Funding signed into the state budget in July 2022.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/MnC_SqESuLM
Informational Workshop: Probation and Community College Partnerships for Justice Impacted Youth
October 21, 2022
Strong partnerships between Juvenile Probation Departments and Community Colleges change lives. When robust college programs are offered to juvenile-justice impacted youth, we see young people thriving. We will feature best practices, lessons learned, and continuing challenges from Juvenile Probation Departments who have successfully partnered with community colleges. We will also cover the new and upcoming Rising Scholars Youth Justice Initiative which will use $15 million to fund programs for detained, supervised, and released youth at 45 Community Colleges.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/-VB30Nx5F9g
Informational Workshop: Review of Separation Laws in Juvenile Facilities
October 14, 2022
The Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) will review the Federal Core Requirements for Separation in juvenile detention facilities and share some scenarios that will provide guidance to juvenile detention facility operators. Additionally, BSCC will review recent questions and hypothetical scenarios involving recent changes in state legislation so that participants can understand how to apply the federal rule in their facilities.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/wU5-Q5ZOIZE
Informational Workshop: Proposed Secure Youth Treatment Facility Offense-Based Classification Matrix
September 23, 2022
SB 92 required the Judicial Council of California (JCC) to adopt an offense-based classification matrix by July 1, 2023. In developing this matrix, the JCC was to be advised by a workgroup of stakeholders including representatives from probation, among others. The workgroup has started its work and the JCC has released a preliminary draft of the matrix for review by the JCC Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee. A final draft is expected to go out for comment in late September.
Informational Workshop: SB 823 Implementation Reentry Services for Youth Exiting the Division of Juvenile Justice
August 19, 2022
This free webinar focuses on two programs that can provide needed assistance to youth and young adults exiting DJJ. Our first speaker will focus on a new program, the Transitional Housing for Youth Discharging from DJJ, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC). The Transitional Housing program currently has a Request for Information out to gather information from interested parties on who might be a willing organization(s) to contract with the state to provide housing assistance to youth/young adults exiting DJJ and are at risk of being homeless.
