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Coaching Through The Tfi And Using Eoy Data, Shantay S. Evans

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT: Teams are coached to enhance efficiency and effectiveness by Working Smarter, not Harder to implement the PBIS framework. Implementing the PBIS framework with fidelity and incorporating input from all stakeholders (staff, students, family, and community) to help shape practices are at the core of increasing PBIS sustainability. Parents and community members who attend this presentation can learn more about the strategies teams use to incorporate feedback and provide beneficial information for use in the home and within their local communities, industries, and businesses.

This school year, teams used the Tiered Fidelity Inventory to measure their perceptions of PBIS …

Using Pbis Framework In Secure Facilities: Agency’S Journey Through Implementation), Janette A. Nihles, Lester R. Allen

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will provide insight into the use of PBIS in a secure juvenile facilities and how to utilize interventions to deal effectively with those youth who present as the most behaviorally challenged. Presenters will share experiences from multiple perspectives within DJJ facilities with different missions, age groups, and barriers.

The Effects Of Reentry Programs On Healthcare Accessibility And Resulting Emergency Department Strain By Ex-Inmates: An Integrative Literature Review, Kaitlyn Muratori

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

THE EFFECTS OF REENTRY PROGRAMS ON HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY AND RESULTING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STRAIN BY EX-INMATES

Kaitlyn Muratori

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Christina Lattner

Background: Ex-inmates are significantly more likely to use emergency rooms to seek treatment for substance abuse, mental health disorders, or poor management of chronic conditions which, if not treated on a community level, ultimately contributes to overboarding in the emergency department.

Objectives: The purpose of this literature review is to use current research to examine the relationship between reentry programs across the US and healthcare accessibility, as well as the resulting strain of emergency room misuse by ex-inmates. …

Restorative Justice - A Participatory Model, Susan Sharpe, Joao Salm

Grant Supported Events

Join Special Guest Susan Sharpe, University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Joao Salm, Governors State University Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, and Members of the GSU Community for an experiential event where you will learn about Restorative Justice, understand its impact locally and globally, and experience a reflective dialogue about Restorative Justice between academia and members of the Chicago Area Community who have actively participated in and implemented Restorative Justice in their communities.

Demanding Accountability In Domestic Violence Courts, Johnna Pike

Violence Against Women conference

This presentation explores whether specialized domestic violence courts are achieving their stated objective of abuser accountability. Domestic violence emerged from the private realm of family life into the public consciousness during the 1970s. Since then, there has been a largely successful movement to reframe domestic violence as a “real” social problem necessitating meaningful criminal justice intervention. Within the criminal justice system, victim and feminist groups have mostly prevailed in controlling the discourse around domestic violence as a gender-based offense. As a result, a criminal court model aimed at empowering victims and at holding abusers accountable has emerged. However, the efficacy …

Symposium On Criminal Justice Reform And Social Justice, Amy Campanelli, Andrea Lyon, Elgin Holt, Alan Swinford, Susan Gaffney, Vincent R. Jones, Nicole Warmington-Granston

Grant Supported Events

This Symposium will present experts and Policy Makers in the Fields of Law Policing and Public Policy in a scholarly environment to discuss important issues of Criminal and Social Justice.

Hosted by

Governors State University Departments of:

Criminal Justice, Public Administration, Political Science and the Institute of Politics, Public Policy and

Social Justice (IPPSJ)

The Open Access Institutional Repository: Maximizing Future Returns On Investment, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

The Open Access Institutional Repository (OAIR) supports scholarship and research. To maximize the OAIR’s future return on learning and research investment, the following items should be considered:

· How to handle copyright

· The value of an Open Access Publication Policy

· How to implement OA journal publication

· The relationship between Open Access Resources and Open Education Resources

The Critical Need For Mental Health Education To Be Mandated In New Mexico's Public Schools, Bonnie L. Murphy

Shared Knowledge Conference

Based on a review of research and best practices in mental health awareness and skills, this inquiry project argues for state legislative policies that would require mental health awareness and skills in the K-12 curriculum. Mental health affects individual accomplishments in every stage of people’s lives beginning in early childhood and throughout the life cycle. Prevention and treatment of mental illness plays a key role in the ability of an individual to cope with loss and develop resiliency and perseverance in challenging times and to make better decisions that improve the individual’s life and the lives of those around them. …

Turning Walls Sideways: What's Actually Inhuman About The Carceral State?, Risa Puleo, Ruby C. Tapia

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

“I Know I Was A Man”: Possibilities For An Abolitionist Aesthetic, Sarah Ross

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Breathing Electric Air, Michelle Jones

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Codes Of Visibility, Kate Palmer Albers

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Co-Creative Diversion Programs For Justice Involved Youth, Shaun Leonardo, Mark Strandquist, Kaile Shilling

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Behind The Museum, A Prison: America’S Bookend Institutions Examined, Christian Viveros Fauné

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Inside Out: Collaboration And Narrative: Artist-Led Panels With Nigel Poor, Jody Lewen, Michael Nelson, Maria Gaspar, Mark Strandquist, And Lisa Sutcliffe, Nigel Poor, Jody Lewen, Michael Nelson, Maria Gaspar

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Keynote Conversation: Curtis L. Carter Art And Social Change Lecture With Elizabeth Hinton And Christian Viveros-Fauné, Elizabeth Hinton, Christian Viveros Fauné

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

Milwaukee Model Symposium Program Book, Emilia Layden, Lisa Sutcliffe

MKE Model Symposium

This Program Book contains full event descriptions and participant biographies for the symposium The Milwaukee Model: Envisioning the Role of the Arts in Criminal Justice Reform.

The Milwaukee Model: A Postscript, Emilia Layden, Lisa Sutcliffe

MKE Model Symposium

No abstract provided.

A Women's Journey Through The Criminal Justice System : The Impact On Children, Families, And Communities, Celia Colon, Susan Mason, Colette Payne, Christine Escalera, Monica Crosby, Generating Hope, Governors State University

Grant Supported Events

Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the US. Join Generating Hope for a panel discussion to address this issue and seek answers to the following questions from the personal experience of women who have been impacted by incarceration:

Why have the rates of incarceration increased for women?

What is the impact of incarceration on children, families and communities?

What are the unique needs of formerly incarcerated women for successful reentry and healing?

How can we become advocates and allies of social justice?

Examining The Reasons For And Barriers To Becoming A Police Officer, Sayer-Jane Vermeer, Mark C. Frame

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

With ever-growing tension between police and the community, both police organizations and communities are recognizing the need and working toward increased representation in police organizations (Brunson, 2007; Szeto, 2014). Despite the effort of many police organizations over the years, the problem of underrepresentation has not improved (Jordan, Fridell, Fagiani, & Kubu, 2009). It has become clear that there is something that has yet to be identified and/or studied preventing underrepresented populations from being interested in or recruited into police organizations. The U.S. Department of Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s 2016 report on Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement identified three …

Creating And Curating New Knowledge: A North American University Case Study, Niraj Chaudhary, Michele Gibney

UBT International Conference

In the Fall of 2017, a cross disciplinary team at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA worked together to identify ways of creating new knowledge for an undergraduate engineering course titled Building Information Modeling. The team included faculty from the School of Engineering and Computer Science and technical staff from the Cube, a digital makerspace in the library. Students were tasked to design and model a one-story building to house the University of the Pacific Garden Program on campus. The cross disciplinary team had the students explore an immersive way of seeing the building model by using a …

4b3: ‘This Mad Brute’: Postwar Male Violence And The Pathological Public Sphere, Rebecca Frost

Proceedings of Armistice & Aftermath: A World War I Symposium

War provides a space for state-sponsored expressions of violence encouraged – or at least allowed – within the public sphere. During WWI, returning soldiers were welcomed and generally hailed as heroes, especially in comparison with more recent conflicts. Men on the front lines were faced not only with rifles, machine guns, and mortars, but also the effects of poison gas. Such violence and images of ripped and torn bodies were an expected part of a soldier’s life. This daily exposure and indeed the mass media reports on what was happening on the front play into Mark Seltzer’s pathological public sphere …

“Partnering To Understand Undergraduate Research And Writing Longitudinally”, Donna Scheidt, Cara Kozma, Holly Middleton, Kathy Shields

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

In her longitudinal case study of a single undergraduate, College Writing and Beyond (2007), Anne Beaufort investigates several knowledge domains contributing to students’ development as writers. As a team of librarians and writing faculty in research and teaching partnership, we hope to build on Beaufort’s work by examining and elaborating the role of research with respect to writing development by sharing findings from our own longitudinal study of undergraduates’ development as writer-researchers. Specifically, we are interested in the ways in which undergraduates’ research interfaces with their writing practices as they advance through their general education coursework and various disciplines. How …

Thinking Outside The Building: Developing A Library Ambassador Program Across Campus(Es), Lydia C. Gwyn

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

In an effort to address declining university retention rates and to reach students who may not make it to the library for research help, the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is in the process developing a peer-mentoring program. This program is one way the library can help the institution in its efforts raise student retention rates and improve student success. Peer learning programs have proven successful in tutoring centers and elsewhere in the university for decades, and research has shown that trained undergraduates are ideal candidates for delivering general reference and information literacy instruction to their peers …

Combatting The Opioid Crisis On College Campuses: A Harm Reduction Approach, Corey L. Lepoudre

Celebration of Learning

College aged people are at a high risk of opioid misuse due to several risks including: an increased opioid misuse in people between the ages of 18-25, those who experience daily elevated stress, and those who live in metropolitan areas or in the Midwest region of the United States. Due to these risks, a harm reduction initiative geared toward college populations is beneficial to prevent a further increase in opioid misuse and overdose. A harm reduction approach was used to develop an educational toolkit for Quad City Harm Reduction to conduct a one-hour workshop for college faculty and students. Harm …

The Relationship Between U.S. Prison And Mental Health: A Review Of Literature, Vanessa M. Jordan

McNair Scholars Program Summer Research Symposium

The majority of the population immediately think of “criminal” or “solitary confinement”. However, the prison population is made up of people who were swept up by policy implementation that was used as a form of social control. This systematic literature review explores the relationship between U.S. prisons and mental health using four main themes: the history of US prisons, race in prison, gender in prison, and mental health in prison.

Pedagogical Design Research For University Police Uniforms, Brooke Brandewie, Injoo Kim, Myoung-Ok Kim, Robin Engel, Kevin Karpiak

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper explores issues and opportunities for new university police officer uniform designs by utilizing a User-Centered Design Methods course as a qualitative pedagogical research approach. As a way of introducing problem-based learning, we brought the uniform redesign project to the junior level class in the School of Design. Since the design brief focused on university police, we viewed this as critical since students are key stakeholders of the uniforms. From the students’ interviews with the officers, key themes were identified about the current uniform items (i.e. hats, shirts, vests, pants, hats, and accessories) among other uniform topics. Findings indicated …

Supporting Lgbtq+ Survivors On Campus, Ethan Levine, Ph.D., Molly Sapia, M.A.

Title IX Summit

Title IX protections have provided a much-needed resource for addressing sexual violence on campus. However, the benefits of Title IX may not apply equally to all students in practice. This workshop will explore strategies for addressing sexual violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. How can we improve support for LGBTQ+ students? How effectively does Title IX address same-sex violence – and might this shift under the current administration? What other policy and programmatic options would support students in these communities? Workshop participants will discuss and strategize around these and other contemporary challenges for supporting LGBTQ+ survivors …

Producing Something Meaningful Involves Students In Applied Learning, Walter Behr, Eliabeth Pachella, Janice Rama

Emerging Learning Design Conference

Concurrent, Session A

Wrongful Convictions By Police-Induced False Confessions, Kayli Ahuja

Celebration of Learning

Wrongful convictions have two main negative effects on society: (1) innocent people are imprisoned, and (2) the real perpetrators are allowed to wander the streets. In order to analyze this issue, this presentation discusses police interrogation tactics (specifically when using the Reid Technique), the association between police interrogation tactics and false confessions, the association between false confessions and wrongful convictions, ways in which wrongful convictions affect communities and their members, and possible ways to mitigate this problem. Although current police interrogation tactics can be useful at eliciting confessions, interrogation methods must be reformed in light of evidence that police-induced false …