Being a Community Corrections Director:

The Director’s Network?

George Evans

Thomas L. Sexton, Ph. D., ABPP

Center for Evidence-Based Practices Learning InstituteSeptember 21, 2010Bloomington, Indiana

Being a Community Corrections Director

Many RolesCritical to Successful Evidence-based

Practice’s

Guided Discussion1. Critical Functions & Activities2. How to Translate into the EBP

agenda3. Tips & Pointers4. A Director’s Network?

Central Functions & Activities

• Administrator- Fiscal- Programs- Staff

• Change Agent- Internally - Locally

• Community/State Solution- Judicial/Law Enforcement- Politically- Programmatically

Translating into EBT Agenda• Leadership for innovation & change– Structure

– Organized in service delivery, staffing, & data collection to “do” effective community corrections

– Culture– How the organization goes about its job of EB CC– Expectations, ideological agreement, “norms” – Shared goals

– Climate– What it is like to work in this organization– Excitement/dread, collaboration/competition etc.

Tips & Pointers

• Who/what determines my departments priorities?

• What does success “look like”?• Is there a proven model for doing this

effectively?• Who do I answer to?• Where does my support come from?

A Directors Network?

• Forum for Discussion• At the Learning Institutes• Through quarterly conference calls• Through new media

• Mentoring Network• Bring along new Directors• Help cultivate new Directors

• Contact Information:– George Evans• gevans327@hotmail.com

– Thomas L. Sexton, Ph. D, ABPP• thsexton@indiana.edu