Course Overview
This cross-disciplinary training between service providers and criminal-legal systems intends to increase collaboration, clarify expectations, and improve service delivery in a correctional setting.
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Credit Hours: MCBAP-R (0.0) MCBAP-S (0.0) Mi-CEC (1.5) Nursing (0.0)
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This course is only assignable via your agency.
This course is unavailable for direct enrollment, please contact the Community Mental Health Association of Michigan.
Topics Covered
- Safety
- Gaining Entry to Correctional Facilities
- Chain of Command
- Do’s and Dont’s
- Behavioral Expectations
Course Objectives
- Clarify and understand the general guidelines for gaining access to a correctional facility.
- Understand policy and procedure differences in a correctional facility as opposed to community provider settings.
- Clarify and understand wait times, service provision, and potential delays.
- Clarify and understand how to provide services in a correctional setting once access is granted.
- Clarify and understand what, when, and how to report information to correctional command staff.
- Understand procedures for ending a session with a consumer.
- Become educated on how to build relationships with correction staff.
- Understand challenges that may be encountered providing services in correctional settings.
- Become educated on must-know information for auxiliary service providers.