Working With Community Partners Providing Behavioral Health Services in a Corrections Setting
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.
- Safety
- Gaining Entry to Correctional Facilities
- Chain of Command
- Do’s and Dont’s
- Behavioral Expectations
- 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.
Captain Julie Massengill
Captain/Jail Administrator
Captain Julie Massengill has 20 years of service with the Monroe County Sheriff Office, including experience as an Assistant Jail Administrator. Captain Massengill is an Eastern Michigan University Alumni, and serves as a board member for several impactful causes. Additionally, Captain Massengill has been instrumental in implementing MOUD in the Monroe County Jail, consistently providing leadership and championing services that will improve the lives of individuals passing through carceral settings in her community.
Renee Casey
Director of Correctional and Reentry Services for the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office
Renee Casey began her career in Corrections after graduating from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and receiving her certification through the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy. Over the last 23 years, she has held a variety of positions within Corrections working both inside correctional facilities and through community corrections.
Renee has been the Director of Community Corrections in Washtenaw County since 2009 and in 2015 also assumed the position of Director of Correctional and Reentry Services for the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. Through these roles, she is responsible for overseeing all alternatives to incarceration programs, pretrial services, jail programming and services, population management, and has worked to design, develop, and implement a Reentry program for the Washtenaw County Jail.
Adam Anastasoff
Jail Diversion Services Supervisor for Monroe County Jail
Jail Diversion Services Supervisor for Monroe County Jail, leading the charge to maintain community safety through robust mental health service provision to individuals involved in the criminal-legal system. Adam is a champion of collaboration and partnerships, continuing to strengthen the overall community while achieving goals of helping clients achieve their personal definition of recovery. Adam has been instrumental in building Monroe’s jail diversion program from one clinician to a program that is the envy of the state, with an overall decreased recidivism from 32% to 27%.
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What People Are Saying
It was a positive experience. It was easy to follow and contained a lot of good information."
