PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS
Facilitated by Highly Qualified Professional Consultants
01 - CRISIS INTERVENTION & PREVENTION
"Crisis Intervention and Prevention Training" (C.I.P.) is a non-physical crisis intervention training, focused on preventive, verbal intervention and tertiary strategies for managing individuals with potential for demonstrating aggressive behaviors. C.I.P. concentrates on understanding the at-risk individual, preventive tools, verbal deescalation techniques, and post-event processing. DRB’s goals are to explore our current approaches, then stretch our critical thinking to a Holistic lens, which invites the escalated individual to participate in their own deescalation, thus establishing new foundations to ensure safety and security.
"Boundaries Within the Workplace” explores and defines professional boundaries and its components, as well as the ethical implications when encountering a client, family and/or detained youth. This training will explore risk factors and the potential ramifications of boundary crossing while gaining a greater understanding of appropriate practice while working with youth in foster/residential/custody settings. Employee protections and how to avoid pitfalls will also be examined within this training.
02 - BOUNDARIES WITHIN THE WORKPLACE
An Ethical Discussion
03 - GENDER RESPONSIVE TREATMENT & PRACTICE
Over the past quarter century, there has been a profound change in the involvement of women within the criminal justice system. "Gender Responsive Treatment and Practice" training will outline and identify gender responsive trends and approaches in managing and intervening effectively with girls/women within secured settings. We will discuss the commonalities between trauma and female incarceration as well as the potential impacts on justice involved youth. Participants will learn holistic and strength-based strategies to assist individuals with traumatic histories to regain wholeness, with focuses on relational, cultural, and trauma informed care.
“Effective Leadership” training explores the foundations of leading others, through understanding the “4-Elements of Effective Leadership” which entails 1) Self Assessment, 2) Understanding the Dynamics of Strengths and Challenges, 3) Developing Your Team’s Competencies, and 4) Mission-Focused Leadership. Participants will also learn aspects of influential leadership.
Each participant will receive a formal assessment of their personality-type, identify behaviors from other personality-types which may conflict with their personality, leadership types/styles, managing oppositional employees, and resolution techniques. The primary goals of the “Effective Leadership” training is to teach holistic management skills to gain long-term buy-in from personnel.
04 - EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
Strengthening the Toolkit
for Managers
05 - UNDERSTANDING SUBSTANCE ABUSE THROUGH THE LENS OF TRAUMA
“Understanding Substance Abuse Through the Lens of Trauma” training explains the relationship between trauma and substance abuse and its prevalence amongst at-risk populations. Participants will examine internal and external factors as well as adverse childhood experiences which correlate with consistent disruption in the daily functioning of individuals and substance abuse.
Trainers will dissect the concepts of trauma reminders, trauma triggers, and the strategy of appropriate assessment as a supportive method of care. Participants will review and dissect past cases and incidents, as well as re-enact scenarios where trauma is involved. We will revisit the factors leading to a higher susceptibility of experienced trauma and its correlation to incarceration and substance use and abuse.
“PREA Refresher:” An Auditor’s Perspective is a PREA refresher training facilitated by current and former certified Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) auditors. This training is designed to increase participants’ understanding of the PREA Standards, the interpretation behind each standard, and provide guidance on how PREA Standards can be applied to various facility types. Training facilitators provide a healthy balance of facilitator lead engagement and peer-to-peer engagement, through interactive activities, small group discussions, and scenario-based training approaches. Overall, participants will learn various strategies for implementing PREA Standards and developing institutional practices to ensure safety from sexual abuse and sexual harassment within their confinement facilities and agencies.
Note - PREA Audit Preparation and Readiness: DRB Consulting’s experts support and guide organizations with step by step and sustainable PREA implementation efforts for juvenile, community confinement, jails, prisons, and lock up facilities. DRB accomplishes this through conducting PREA Readiness Facility Assessments, training and technical assistance options. The goal for PREA Audit readiness is to increase understanding of PREA standards while creating or enhancing the standards to be institutionalized in each individual facility.
06 - EFFECTIVE PREA REFRESHER
(A PREA AUDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE)
07 - PRIME
FOR LIFE
“Prime for Life” training is an evidence-based universal motivational prevention and intervention course designed for people who are beginning to make high-risk life choices and might need risk reduction information, have school truancy issues, have family members with substance use problems, or those already making high-risk alcohol or drug choices and who might be exhibiting signs of chemical dependency problems developing.
"Prime for Life" provides participants with current research on the development of addiction and high-risk choices which accompany this development. PFL addresses the beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, motivations, as well as the signs of increased risk behaviors. Instructors and participants also explore evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies for those persons who are susceptible to making high risk behavioral choices, as well as the relevant treatment options available to those ultimately affected by alcohol and drug addictions.
“A Culturally Competent Workplace” is an interactive workshop-style training which provides participants with knowledge of cultural diversity cultural competency, through understanding the Continuum towards Cultural Competency. Participants will learn how their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and expectations (VABEs) impact their workplace’s level of competency and ultimately the consumer. Finally, participants will develop strategies to interact and respond to individuals from various cultural backgrounds, through a “Culturally Competent Lens.”
08 - A CULTURALLY COMPETENT WORKPLACE
09 - LET’S BUILD
A BMP
(Behavioral Motivating Program)
DRB recognizes that establishing a healthy institutional and programmatic culture, understanding then developing a well-balanced behavior motivating programming is a critical component in successfully working with at-risk populations and assuring safety and security.
DRB provides a “Let’s Build a Behavior Motivating Program (BMP)” training for all levels of staff members working with youth within residential placement facilities. “Let’s Build a Behavior Motivating Program (BMP)” training is an intensive workshop-style training, focused on developing population-specific behavior motivating programs for specialized populations of youth.
“Let’s Build a Behavior Motivating Program (BMP)” training concentrates on a) identifying the population type, b) distinguishing the population needs, and c) developing programmatic controls. DRB’s goals are to explore the current approaches, then provoke staff critical thinking skills to move towards a Holistic lens, and lastly to establish new foundations to ensure Safety and Security.
DRB understands that the paramount purpose of all custodial and/or placement institutions / facilities / homes is ensuring Safety and Security within controlled environments. However, the approaches used to accomplish these common goals of Safety and Security have been more alike than not alike. These approaches involved a set of pre-established cause and effect guidelines to respond to maladaptive behaviors demonstrated by the individuals residing in these custodial settings. However, the outcomes of these approaches have varied based on the institution's fashioned culture, which either excites, ignites, or mitigates additional Safety and Security issues.
DRB’s intensive interactive training workshop revisits these common approaches, then redirects our thinking to viewing Security through a Holistic lens. This is accomplished through dissecting and rethinking the foundational functions of all juvenile justice and youth serving institutions/facilities/placements then repackages each function using practical methods, which focuses of protecting juvenile rights, safeguarding quality of life, and providing well-balanced programming, all of which lays the necessary foundation to ensure Safety and Security. DRB Consulting takes participants on a journey focused on developing an institutional culture of systems that considers the whole placed/incarcerated individual while ensuring safety and security.
NOTE: This training is derived from DRB’s Operations Manual “The Art of Holistic Security (AOHS).” AOHS addresses the issues that arise and resonate within custodial/placement/residential settings by dissecting and repackaging the facility’s foundational function within the strategies of the Success-Centered Societal Model (S-CS). This manual instructs readers on how to ensure a safe and secure facility while promoting positive youth development, by walking the reader through each stage of a youth’s journey, from Intake to Release. This training is also accompanied by a supplemental workbook.