Statewide Recidivism Reduction Strategy
Volume 1 , Issue 4 | July 2016
Kim Sperber presents at DOC To advance successful offender reentry to protect the public, staff and offenders from victimization.
Kim Sperber, Chief Research Officer for Talbert House, visited DOC May 24th to give presentation on Continuous Quality Improvement to leadership and QA staff across the state. The presentation discussed the new model and how to best implement the model based on the current QA work and resources.
SRR presents at Symposium A collaborative effort to increase public safety through recidivism reduction strategies while developing sustainable system-wide change.
Kim Sperber
Homeless Symposium
Staff Appreciation
New Interns
Warden Conference Beth Skinner
SRR presented at Iowa/Nebraska Peer to Peer Homelessness Symposium June 9th on the topic of Housing Persons Re-Entering Communities. 37 housing professionals attended and the panel was well received.
Have you heard? SRR has a Website! A website was created to further describe to the public the work SRR is doing, complete with a blog section with features being written by our social media intern.
Check it out!
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SRR Staff Appreciation at Newton SRR staff and workgroups participated in an
Workgroups Quality Assurance Chairs: Lettie Prell, Anne Brown; Members: Robert Johnson, Tracy Dietsch, Robin Albee, Lorie Woodard
appreciation event June 24th at Newton Correctional Release Center to celebrate progress, hard work and leadership. The day consisted of a speech from director Jerry Bartruff, staff awards and a raffle.
Pre-Release Planning and Policy Chairs: Katrina Carter, Jen Foltz; Members: Kathy Culbertson, Jason Landess, Amber Lewis, Angela Morris, Matt Sperfslage, Laura Larkin, Sarah Harms, Anne Izzolena Training Chairs: Trish Signor, Marlene Marsh, Rebecca Dyer; Members: Kim McIrvin, Marcy Stroud, Vickie Garrett, SaraBeth Schurr, Leanne Eichinger, Michelle Boston, Robin Bagby, Kim Guthrie, Jay Nelson Job Competencies
Thank you to all those involved with planning, set up, tear down, food, and donations to the raffle!!
Chairs: Susie Pritchard, Sally Kreamer, Dan Craig; Members: Ashley Lappe, Lynn Knight, Linda Bellinghausen, Brian Chapman, Malinda Lamb, Ross Todd, Patrick Lacey, Michelle Dix, Paul Foreman, Sarah Morrow, Wade Barcus, Chad Kerker Workload
SRR Hires Five Interns
Chairs: Laura Scheffert, Jennifer Guild; Members: Dan Nyren, Sondra Holck, Mark Allen, Jason Holder, Sharee Lind, Linda Norton, Megan Guthrie, Netti Renshaw, Jeremy Larson, Sheryl Dahm Prison Advisory Chair: Mike Boatman; Members: Stacie Anderson, Matt Carlson, Kelli Collins, Lori Cook, Tracy Dietsch, Todd Ensminger, Dave Foehring, Julie Govern, Kim Guthrie, Shawn Howard, Robert Johnson, Elizabeth Kluesner, Karin Kruse, John Mays, Thad Nellis, Rhonda Phillips, Darrell Shirbroun, Jennifer Swihart, Scott Verstas
Social Media intern, Jackie Horsfall, creates content such as the SRR website, infographics, blog posts, photos and videos for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Beth Skinner
Four Continuous Quality Improvement interns, Julianne Bacon, Lena Lo, Cein Moran and Matthew Knudsen, assist Quality Assurance Specialists in conducting quality assurance audits/reviews on risk instruments to ensure accurate scoring by the staff within Iowa institutions and community-based corrections.
beth.skinner@iowa.gov
www.doc.state.ia.us
CBC Advisory Pat Weber, John Reeg, John Scholl, Mike McQuire, Emmanuel Scarmon, Kimberly Waagmeester, Kevin Coughlin, Juan Chavez, Mike Brown, Keven Christensen, Bob Anderson, Andrew Dewitt, Brian McDevitt, Carl Hamilton, Kristina, Eckert, Eddie Schulthies
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SRR Snapshots!
SRR QA Specialists have developed and are piloting IOWA program tool with T4C classes.
Beginning process of utilizing new Home Placement Questionnaire (HPQ) checklist.
SRR staff presented to judges at ISBA CLE Conference on SRR strategy and received positive feedback.
SRR Strategy is developing a reentry dashboard to track system, agency, unit and staff level performance measures.
Gary Christensen, President of Justice Solutions, Inc. visited DOC to meet with leadership to discuss organization development around SRR strategies. Ensuring we have the infrastructure in order to facilitate changes made by SRR.
Big Data!
98% Percentage of counselors that participated in Institutional Time Study.
31,353 Number of activities that were recorded in Institutional Time Study.
930,339 Minutes (15,506 hours) recorded for activities with an average of about 7,952 minutes (132 hour per counselor) for the Institutional Time Study.
SRR presents at Deputy Wardens Conference SRR presented to 61 attendees July 12th at the 71st Annual United States Deputy Wardens Association conference. The workshop included the main objectives and goals of SRR and focal points such as Continuous Quality Improvement, Human Resources, Risk assessments and implementation.
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Iowa Statewide Recidivism Reduction Strategy
50 More than 50 offenders have been trained in NAMI peer to peer trainings.
@IowaSRR
600 More than 600 QI audits completed IVVI and IRR. Beth Skinner
Iowa DOC
beth.skinner@iowa.gov
www.doc.state.ia.us
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