Improving the Supervision of Offenders with Serious Mental Illness: Tips, Tricks and Tools for Probation and Parole Officers

Individuals with serious mental illnesses on probation and parole have complex needs, elevated criminogenic risks, and present challenges to the probation/parole officers who supervise them. In collaboration with the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety has innovated special programs and initiatives to equip probation and parole officers with the skills and tools needed to optimize criminal justice and mental health outcomes for mentally ill people under supervision. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about these programs and initiatives and gain hands-on experience with: our mental health training modules for officers; our brief assessments of mental health and social determinants of health; our decision tools and worksheets; our strategies used to facilitate consultation between mental health professionals and officers; and our lessons learned regarding the implementation and evaluation of specialty mental health probation.

Watch this pre-recorded, on-demand training to earn 1.5 APPA Contact Hours! This training is also eligible for Changing Offender Behavior (COB) credit.