Cop 2 Cop

May 9, 2007 1:41:41 PM

At our Southern Champion Team rally, the Champion Team from JMSF reported that they were working with Cop 2 Cop to provide assistance to officers experiencing stress on the job. There was a request to post information on Cop 2 Cop here, so I'm including a link to their website for anyone who is also interested in this service.

Cop 2 Cop

Posted by Amy Jacob
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Mental Health treatment reduces involvement with juvenile justice system

May 9, 2007 10:29:13 AM

It's probably no surprise to hear that early intervention in mental health issues can reduce contact with the juvenile justice system, but it's always good to have evidence to support what most of us believe from our experience. A program in Illinois that tracked 700 kids found just that.

"The results of the evaluation reveal that early diagnosis and treatment of mental illness among those youth who have been in contact with the justice system results in a significant decrease in future contact with law enforcement."

Read the rest of this article here.

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Champion Team Training Feedback!

May 2, 2007 4:39:57 PM

Thanks to all of you who attended our Champion Team rallies last week! I thought you might be interested to see what some of the feedback was from the events. If you've got some additional thoughts to share, please register as a user (your info stays confidential) and leave a comment.

We'll be planning another rally for the fall. What would be on the agenda if you were running the show? I'm interested to hear any ideas you have, so please leave comments or email me at jacobas (at) umdnj.edu.

Written Feedback from evaluations:

General Comments
Continue having these trainings.
Great job – keep it up!!
Good training!
Great presentation!
Outstanding program/presentation.
Keep CSRE moving ahead and inviting these key groups to come together.
Everything was excellent.

Most Useful:
Learning about vicarious trauma.
Talking to other counties.
Getting teams together and allowing each to see most problems and obstacles are very similar.
Vicarious trauma.
Learning about Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges from other counties.
Hearing how other facilities face the same problems.
Grant writing and fundraising.
Vicarious trauma information.
Burnout in the workplace.
Allowing time for our team to meet to discuss strengths and weaknesses.
Hearing from other facilities.
Listening to each county discuss what they are doing in all the areas.
All info provided.
Learning by listening to others.
Hearing what progress others have made with their Champion Teams.
All of it, especially the burnout component.
Hearing other agencies’ programs, problems and solutions.
Evaluating ourselves and seeing what other facilities are doing.
A lot of group participation!
Grants.
Identifying goals.
Hearing from all the counties and agencies.
Rekindling professional network and meeting new people.
Group evaluations of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges.
Goals, strengths, weaknesses.
Open discussion.
Different activities in groups – a lot of ideas.

Suggestions:
Needs to be a 2-day training.
2-days.
Administrators should be mandated to attend.
Fundraising section was good but wasn’t geared for our group.
Steering Committee work/efforts communicated to teams.
Working through lunch
Change tactic – stressing goals is getting old.
Get more administrators to attend.
More training in mental health issues and staff stress reduction.
Keep Roy on the team!
Come train our staff again.
Have this training once every three months.
Focus prior to this meeting on having administrators accepting and supporting their facility with the Champion Team.
Didn’t feel grant writing was helpful.
Make it longer.

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Revisiting safety concerns at NJTS

May 2, 2007 4:31:33 PM

An article in today's Star Ledger discusses possible interventions that are under consideration to improve safety at the NJ Training School for Boys.

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