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                                    Evidenced-Based Workforce Training Series

      

                    
          
    Evidenced-Based Workforce Training Series
The **Evidenced-Based Workforce Training Series** - based on evidence-based practices - shows staff how to combine cognitive behavioral interventions with motivational interviewing techniques to address offenders’ gainful attachment to the workforce and/or job loss. This “hand in glove” approach supports the honest exploration of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs affecting offender employment while addressing quality of life issues. In addition, the series uses the Employment Retention Inventory, a case management tool that connects justice-involved adults to appropriate services and support.

This series applies spiral curriculum approach to learning, where topics and themes repeat but increase in depth each time they appear to allow for mastery of knowledge and skills.

The **Evidenced-Based Workforce Training Series** consists of the following training events:

**Employment Retention: Principles and Practice** (24-hour regional training)

	Introduction to motivational interviewing techniques
		Introduction to cognitive behavioral interventions
		Career theory and assessments
	**E-Learning Modules** (4-hour web-based training)
	Employment retention strategies
		Evidence-based concepts
		Motivational interviewing
	**Employment Retention: Criminal Justice System** (40-hour instructor-led)
	Continuum of care model
		Career theory operationalization
		Employment Retention Inventory
	**Professional Coaching Sessions** (2-hour quarterly sessions)
	Skill mastery
		Knowledge enhancement

    Resource Links
          Evidence-Based and Culturally Relevant Behavioral Health Interventions in Practice: Strategies and Lessons Learned from NNEDLear
          Replication Validation of the Employment Retention Inventory
          Employment retention: a question of public safety
          Goodwill Workforce Development Needs Review
          Windham School District’s vocational training proves effective
          Preventing Parolees from Returning to Prison through Community-Based Reintegration
          Prison Work Release Programs
          3-Day Agenda Download
                   Related Initiatives
          Transition and Workforce Development
          Reentry/Transition

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          Archie Weatherspoon IV
      
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