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Staff Training For Non-Correctional Employees Working With Justice-Involved Women, Hawo Abdullahi Jama

Doctor of Occupational Therapy Doctoral Projects

Purpose. Justice-involved women have unique pathways into the criminal justice system, so it is important staff are trained to address their needs. Staff receiving inclusive practice training and using trauma-informed care principles may be more effective when working with justice- involved populations. There is little known about the impact of inclusive practice training on staff knowledge, so this project aims to investigate the impact of a training session on the knowledge of re-entry staff.

Approach. For this capstone project, I used an evidence-based process to create an employee handbook and provide a 4-hour training. I then used surveys containing Likert-type …