Wednesday October 21st
8:00-9:30a.m. / Registration/Resource Fair
9:30-11:45 a.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East / Room 243
ACE's: Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Impact of Trauma Inform Care in the Corrections Community
Jane Straub- Gundersen Health System, Jacob Wetterling Resource Center / “Uff da, we don’t talk about that here!”
Alicia Sojourner, YWCA of Minneapolis / Overdose Prevention: Confronting the Challenges of Life After Prison
Adam Fairbanks- Valhalla Place / Domestic Violence and Corrections: How systemic gaps in response to battering impacts victim safety.
Bobbi Holtberg & Rick Lind-MNDOC
11:45-12:45 / LUNCH (Arena Lobby)
12:50-2:45 p.m. / President’s Welcome: President Michelle Smith
Award Presentation – Corrections Person of the Year
KEYNOTE: Dr. Jody Janati Got Conflict? Find Your “Conversation Peace”
Banquet Hall East
2:45-3:00
p.m. / BREAK/Resource Fair
3:00-4:30
p.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East / Room 243
Pre-Charge Diversion Programs for Youth-Petty Misdemeanor to Felony Level Crimes
Laraine Mickelson & Paul Mickelson, Carlton County Collaborative / Secondary Trauma - Experience, Resiliency and Self Care
Todd Kohl, MN Management & Budget-Employee Assistance / Veterans Crisis Response Awareness
Katie & Steve Blackwell / Victim Role in Offender Reentry-Including "Duty to Warn"
Lydia Newlin & Steve Huot, MN DOC
4:45-5:30
p.m. / Social Hour – Sponsored by 180 Degrees - Hughes/Johnson Rooms at City Center Hotel
5:30-6:30
p.m. / Awards Ceremony – Jackson/Palmer Rooms at City Center Hotel
6:30-9:30
p.m. / Vendor Hospitality – Poolside at City Center Hotel
Thursday October 22nd
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. / Registration/Resource FairPast Presidents’ Breakfast Hughes Room at City Center Hotel
8:30-10:00 a.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East / Room 243
The Adolescent Brain
Hal Pickett-Headway Emotional Health Services / Prison Terminal: Life & Death in a Prison Hospice (The Last Days of Private Jack Hall)
Edgar Barens / Beyond PCs: Dealing With The New World of Cell Phones and Wearable Technology in Supervision
Dan Bick, MNDOC/MNIT / eCourtMN Update
Karen Kampa Jaszewski, Sarah Novak, Ann Peterson, Minnesota Judicial Branch
10:00-10:15 a.m. / BREAK/Resource Fair
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East / Room 243
Engaging the Elephant in the Room
Jim Church, Jill Barickman, Holly VanPelt, MNDOC / Transgender Youth: Out of the Locker
Hal Pickett-Headway Emotional Health Services / Winds of Change: Skills for Aspiring Leaders
Charles Dively, MNDOC / Statewide Evidence Based Practices Initiatives - Coming soon to an office near you!
Sandi Sostak, MNDOC
11:45-12:45 / LUNCH (Arena Lobby)
12:45-2:15 p.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East / Room 243
Juvenile HRU
HRU / State of Minnesota vs. Byron Smith: Little Falls Homicides
Pete Orput, Washington Cty / "You're Not Just A Anything"
Lee Sjolander, Kenyon Police Chief / Legislative Update
Cal Saari
2:15-2:30
p.m. / BREAK/Resource Fair
2:30-4:30
p.m. / Room 241 / Reception Hall / Banquet Hall East
New Trends in Pharmaceutical & Street Drug Abuse
Joseph Cappello, Jeff Fiance , DEA / The Brian Fitch Murder Trial
Richard Dusterhoeft, Ramsey Cty Atty Office; Criminal Division Director / How We Can Better Work with Gang Involved Youth
Enrique (Cha-Cho)Estrada, Neighborhood House
5:30 p.m. / Dinner and Evening Entertainment/Networking – The Loose Moose
Friday, October 23rd
8:15 – 8:45 a.m. / MCA BUSINESS MEETING/2016 Board of Directors Election Announcement Banquet Hall9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / KEYNOTE: Darren Kavinoky “Be the Billboard” Banquet Hall
Session Details
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Wednesday, October 21
9:30 – 11:45 a.m.
ACE's: Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Impact of Trauma Informed Care in the Corrections Community Room 241
Jane Straub
Research shows us that the correction population tends to have higher rates of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's) ,a type of traumatic experience that leads to risk taking through adolescence and health related consequences in adulthood. Decision making and behaviors from chronic stress and trauma are compromised and may lead to additional traumatic experiences (a cycle). Knowledge on the impact of trauma will help to provide services and a system that is trauma informed. This session will take participants through the history and results of the ACE Study, define trauma, describe the components of Trauma-Informed Care, provide examples of stress reduction and resiliency and help participants to see behaviors and "choices' through a trauma lens. The goal of this session is to provide knowledge and practice that you can use immediately.
“Uff da, We don’t talk about that here!” Reception Hall
Alicia Sojourner
This workshop is designed for those who want to acquire skills in dealing with "ism" and Microaggressions as it occurs in their work lives. The workshop will develop the participants’ active listening skills, as well as help them practice skills to respond to overt "ism" (i.e. sexist, racist remarks, etc), and covert racism (i.e. privilege, microaggressions, etc). The skills learned in this workshop can be easily applied and taught to others to create more inclusive environments in our lives, and to continue the work of eliminating 'ism". Workshop Learning Objectives for Participants: Understanding the challenges and benefits to having honest conversations about "ism" with the “Minnesota Nice” conversational style; Gain practical skills and tools for confronting "ism", facilitating difficult conversations about different areas of diversity (i.e. race and racism), and for challenging institutional racism in their own life contexts; Explore the unique challenges, possibilities and practical application of skills, tools, and facilitation in their particular settings.
Overdose Prevention: Confronting the Challenges of Life after Prison Banquet Hall East
Adam J. Fairbanks
This workshop will explore why the formerly incarcerated are dying at such an alarming rate and introduce an evidenced based approach for decreasing overdose (OD) fatalities. Participants will be introduced to: the principles of harm reduction, Minnesota’s OD Good Samaritan law, and the essential components of OD prevention education and the use of Naloxone, the OD reversal drug. The workshop aims to create a framework for identifying inmates at risk of OD, requiring them to complete OD prevention education, and offering information about local resources for obtaining Naloxone.
Domestic Violence and Corrections: How systemic gaps in response to battering impacts victim safety Room 243
Bobbi Holtberg, Rick Lind
Battering is a system of tactics used with the intent to dominate another person. We will explore what motivates a batterer to use violence against their intimate partner and what impact the violence has on victims. We will also analyze the incarcerated offender population and what efforts the Minnesota Department of Corrections is making to increase the safety of victims. As we gain more understanding of offender behavior and impact to victims, we can begin to identify gaps in current practices that impact both offender accountability and victim safety. We will discuss what we are learning through a federal grant funded project that focuses on the supervision of domestic violence offenders Committed to the Commissioner of Corrections and identified best practices that are beginning to be piloted.
Keynote
12:50 – 2:45 – Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday General Session: Dr. Jody Janati Got Conflict? Find Your “Conversation Peace”: An entertaining and humorous session that will provide you multiple techniques to ensure you can find your voice, maintain wholeness and go unimpaired while engaging others during difficult interactions. You’ll learn 101 things to say and do during difficult interactions and maintain your personal integrity through effective communication strategies that really work. Be cool, calm, and collected and set healthy boundaries with others and ultimately find your “Conversation Peace.”
Session Details
Wednesday, October 21
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Pre-Charge Diversion Programs for Youth-Petty Misdemeanor to Felony Level Crimes Room 241
Laraine Mickelson, Paul Mickelson
In February, 2010 Carlton County, MN accepted its first felony level case into its Restorative Justice Sentencing Circle
Program. Since this time, the program has evolved to become a pre-charge diversion program accepting petty misdemeanor
to felony level crimes and continues to develop itself into a community based program meeting the needs of crime victims,
youthful offenders, and community members who have been impacted by crime and conflict. A recent program expansion is
now bringing us into the school setting, attending to issues of bullying and other harmful behavior to curtail detention,
suspension and expulsion. This presentation provides information on the development, implementation, and evolution of this
program. Attendees will view a mock scenario to highlight the work utilizing an actual case situation.
Secondary Trauma - Experience, Resiliency and Self Care Reception Hall
Todd Kohl
Public servants, whether involved in Social Services, Corrections or the many other fields that involve human struggle and tragedy, work in occupations that are by their nature, traumatic. For many, the impact of this trauma can go un-noticed and untreated. This presentation define secondary trauma, point to recognizable symptoms and present strategies for individuals and groups to employ to both maintain one's health and strength as well as minimizing the impact of the work of corrections.
Veterans Crisis Response Awareness Banquet Hall East
Katie Blackwell, Steve Blackwell
This session provides awareness for corrections professionals, first responders, and others on the challenges of responding and managing incidents involving Veterans in crisis.
Victim Role in Offender Reentry including "Duty to Warn" Room 243
Lydia Newlin, Steve Huot
This presentation will provide participants an overview of the critical importance of involving victims in offender reentry along with the Minnesota Department of Corrections processes for involving victims and providing safety mechanisms for victims in cases where there is a high risk of re-offense. Participants will learn about the differences in protective orders in cases where offenders are incarcerated and specifically the processes the DOC utilizes to reduce the risk of harm and in some cases, to "harden the target." This presentation will also provide participants with information on the responsibilities of professionals under the "Duty to Warn" legislation and the Department of Corrections processes for Duty to Warn.
Session Details
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Thursday, October 22
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
The Adolescent Brain Room 241
Hal Pickett
The adolescent's brain is a marvelous organ that is still under construction. Literature now supports that the brain develops in direct correlation with its experiences, building thousands of connections. During adolescence, it actually downsizes and gets more efficient, maintaining the most used tracts. The brain then proceeds to complete full myelination during the second half of the second decade. Though the brain remains rather malleable, dysfunctional experiences from childhood that are chronic and repeated tends to foster dysfunctional behaviors in adolescence. When working with these adolescents it is important to understand the world through their brain and make treatment interventions that will help instead of hinder progress.
Prison Terminal: Life and Death in a Prison Hospice Reception Hall
Edgar Barens
Screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall”, a documentary that breaks through the walls of one of America’s oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him. The film draws from footage shot over a six-month period behind the walls of the Iowa State Penitentiary and provides a fascinating and often poignant account of how the hospice experience can profoundly touch even the forsaken lives of the incarcerated. After the screening, a lively Q & A session with the director, Edgar Barens, will be held.
Beyond PCs: Dealing With The New World of Cell Phones and Wearable Technology in Supervision Banquet Hall East
Dan Bick
This session will provide information on technology which offenders may use and how it can be effectively monitored. Fast moving trends and new device types will be discussed as well as useful methods to use when either directly reviewing a device or submitting it for forensic review.
Specific areas which will be covered are:
1) Digital evidence: how it differs from physical evidence and how to correctly preserve evidence in the field.
2) Growth of miniaturization, wireless, and wearable technology and its impact on supervision.
3) Case Study #1: An effective process for reviewing a sex offender's phone showing data from an actual case. An explanation of the many useful types of information on a phone will be described, and importantly, how to limit your time in order to get quick answers.
4) Case Study #2: Examples of techniques that can be done in the field to triage phones and similar devices to determine if they need forensic review due to suspicious use patterns.
Handouts will be provided and many sample devices will be available for review by the attendees.
eCourtMN Update Room 243
Karen Jaszewski, Sarah F. Novak, Ann Peterson
What corrections personnel need to know in light of all of the recent Supreme Court rule amendments supporting the court’s transition to an all-electronic court record environment; what data and documents corrections personnel can get and when through the court’s new MGA tool, which provides access to the court’s case management system for justice agency partners; and an update regarding the new document integrations project underway between the courts and CSTS, and plans for future integration with DOC.
Session Details
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Thursday, October 22
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Engaging the Elephant in the Room Room 241
James C. Church, Jill Barickman, Holly VanPelt
Stress and frustration are increasingly common in the workplace as many factors both on and off the job contribute to conflict within the work area. When our work teams are in conflict it often affects everything we do and has an adverse effect on worker production. Conflict; is for the most part natural when working with others, but it is too often looked upon as negative and unhealthy. Since few of us view conflict as a healthy part of the workplace, we tend to view all conflict as unhealthy and like the proverbial "elephant in the room," tend to avoid it at all costs. When we learn how to engage in healthy conflict resolution, we discover increased connection and trust which results in more productive workplaces. The key is to understand yours and others feelings and to express interests and needs rather than on stick to opposing positions that keep us locked in an argument. This does require some vulnerability, but if we can confidently intervene quickly and encourage the airing of needs and interests; we will be moving in the right direction. Improving group processes takes time but if the intervention is effective, improvements in efficiency and the working atmosphere are well worth the investment.