Promoting Desistance: Transforming Community Supervision for Lasting Change
December 5, 2024
This training on December 5, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET, aimed to empower community supervision professionals with a comprehensive understanding of desistance, enhancing their ability to foster sustainable change and safer communities.
Participants learned to differentiate between desistance and recidivism, recognizing how these metrics influence the evaluation of outcomes in community supervision. They critically assessed the limitations of recidivism as a measurement while articulating the advantages of a desistance-focused approach, which fosters more effective rehabilitation and community integration.
Additionally, the training addressed policies and practices that may impede desistance, encouraging participants to analyze their impact on rehabilitation. Finally, attendees explored and recommended innovative, evidence-based strategies that promote desistance, equipping them to implement positive change in their professional roles.
Thank you to our faculty:
- Ronald F. Day, Senior Vice President at The Fortune Society
- Lily Shapiro, Policy Counsel at The Fortune Society’s David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy
- Reggie Chatman, MPH, Director of Policy at The Fortune Society’s David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy
- Pamela Neely, CEPP Justice Policy Consultant
- Ashia Wilson, CEPP Justice Policy Consultant
- Brandon Brown, MS, PhD Candidate, Project Lead for Justice Policy Consultants at CEPP
Award# 15PBJA-22-GK-01739-MUMU, is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and administered by the Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP), in partnership with the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), the Association of Paroling Authorities, International (APAI), the Center for Justice Innovation (CJI), and the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA).