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Being a Community Corrections Director: The Director’s Network? George Evans

Being a Community Corrections Director: The Director’s Network? George Evans Thomas L. Sexton, Ph. D., ABPP Center for Evidence-Based Practices Learning Institute September 21, 2010 Bloomington, Indiana. Being a Community Corrections Director. Many Roles

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Being a Community Corrections Director: The Director’s Network? George Evans

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  1. Being a Community Corrections Director: The Director’s Network? George Evans Thomas L. Sexton, Ph. D., ABPP Center for Evidence-Based Practices Learning Institute September 21, 2010 Bloomington, Indiana

  2. Being a Community Corrections Director Many Roles Critical to Successful Evidence-based Practice’s Guided Discussion • Critical Functions & Activities • How to Translate into the EBP agenda • Tips & Pointers • A Director’s Network?

  3. Central Functions & Activities • Administrator - Fiscal - Programs - Staff • Change Agent - Internally - Locally • Community/State Solution - Judicial/Law Enforcement - Politically - Programmatically

  4. Translating into EBT Agenda • Leadership for innovation & change • Structure • Organized in service delivery, staffing, & data collection to “do” effective community corrections • Culture • How the organization goes about its job of EB CC • Expectations, ideological agreement, “norms” • Shared goals • Climate • What it is like to work in this organization • Excitement/dread, collaboration/competition etc.

  5. Tips & Pointers • Who/what determines my departments priorities? • What does success “look like”? • Is there a proven model for doing this effectively? • Who do I answer to? • Where does my support come from?

  6. A Directors Network? • Forum for Discussion • At the Learning Institutes • Through quarterly conference calls • Through new media • Mentoring Network • Bring along new Directors • Help cultivate new Directors

  7. Contact Information: • George Evans • gevans327@hotmail.com • Thomas L. Sexton, Ph. D, ABPP • thsexton@indiana.edu

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