Change is a constant within every organization. At Carey Group, we specialize in leading lasting innovation and positive change within justice systems and behavioral health sectors. We equip these professionals with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to improve their clients’ lives through evidence-based training, organizational consulting services, and evidence-informed intervention tools.
Embracing innovation and change is crucial for reducing recidivism, efficiently implementing evidence-based practices, improving outcomes, enhancing user experiences, and ensuring quality assurance. Continue reading to explore some of the cutting-edge tools we provide that are revolutionizing how justice organizations implement evidence-based practices and interventions.
The Carey Guides: A Revolutionary Tool
The Carey Guides help justice organizations implement evidence-based practices for positive behavior change by addressing criminogenic needs and common case management issues. Carey Guides address:
- Criminogenic needs: harmful thinking patterns, negative peer influence, emotional regulation, interpersonal skills
- Case management issues: case planning, motivating behavior change, leveraging strengths, addressing prosocial and noncompliant behavior, working with individuals with mental health challenges
Emphasizing the Carey Group’s belief in fostering positive behavioral change, Carey Guides serves as a testament to their innovative approach. These guides, equipped with innovative tools and worksheets, aid justice systems in navigating through organizational change. Each guide is designed to include worksheets that assist clients in understanding and addressing risk factors, triggers, and other essential conditions for their success. The guides also include other useful components, like:
- A built-in case management approach, enabling individuals to build skills and make positive changes in their lives.
- Employs scientifically proven methods to promote law-abiding behavior and reduce recidivism.
- Offers digital and print formats for on-demand access to evidence-based practices, cognitive tools, and guidance.
Innovation in Justice System Consulting
By incorporating emerging research on "what works," the Carey Group develops clear, practical, specific, and customized strategies that enhance the implementation and maintenance of healthy and productive organizational strategies. With tailored consulting, justice systems can:
- Gain an understanding of the basic principles of evidence-based practices
- Assess the organization’s readiness to implement evidence-based practices
- Develop a strategic, evidence-based practice plan with internal and external stakeholders
- Define a time-specific implementation plan for evidence-based practices
- Coach staff in evidence-based practice skills
- Coach managers and supervisors in evidence-based practice leadership skills
The Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement (PPCJI)—a collaborative effort to improve community well-being by employing research-informed practices at each decision point throughout the criminal justice system—demonstrates the value of Carey Group’s services. Working closely with PPCJI partners, Carey Group consultants developed and led strategic plans intended to ensure positive change and regularly focus on innovation and change that continues to meet the needs of PPCJI and their respective communities.
eLearning and Training for Justice Systems
Training is an essential tool for keeping justice system staff, supervisors, leadership, and stakeholders updated with emerging knowledge and expectations for improved outcomes. The Carey Group's training and consulting services cater to the needs of justice system and behavioral health professionals. These services ensure that professionals have access to the latest evidence-based resources to enhance their skills, knowledge, and abilities. The on-demand, eLearning courses include a variety of justice staff training topics, such as:
- Evidence-based practices
- Motivational interviewing
- Use of Carey Group behavior-change tools
Additionally, for a more in-depth training on these topics and others, we offer virtual and in-person instructor led trainings, such as:
- Effective case planning and management
- Continuous quality improvement
- Core professional competencies
- Coaching
- Supervisor resources
Cognitive Tools: A New Approach
In addition to consulting and training services, the Carey Group recognizes the importance of cognitive tools in the justice system. We offer a variety of cognitive behavioral intervention tools, including:
- Brief Intervention Tools (BITS)
- Creating Calm Workbooks (focused on helping clients adjust to life’s challenges)
- Driver Workbook (tool to identify the most influential criminogenic need)
- Tools on Devices (electronic and fillable versions of cognitive behavioral tools)
When justice and behavioral health systems invest in evidence-based consulting and training, they can implement and sustain positive change, subsequently improving public safety. Innovation and change led by evidence-based consultants, supplemented by evidence-based training, and reinforced with evidence-based intervention and cognitive tools can and do improve outcomes.
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Connect with a Carey Group Expert
Contact a Carey Group consultant to strengthen your organization, improve your leadership skills, and enhance your ability to implement and maintain healthy, productive organizational strategies. A Carey Group consultant can connect you with effective, research-based online training, policies, practices, and leadership tools.
Decades of experience demonstrate that aligning justice systems around evidence-based policies and practices offers the greatest promise of success. Carey Group offers services and products for justice system professionals, from evidence-based consulting to interactive workbooks that help improve the lives of people involved in the justice system.
Our evidence-based online training and consulting services address the needs of the justice system and behavioral health professionals. Working closely with Carey Group professionals, agencies are better able to offer a mixture of in-person, online, and self-directed courses on evidence-based practices, motivational interviewing, core professional competencies, case planning and management, continuous quality improvement, coaching, and the use of behavior-change tools and supervisor resources. Talk to a Carey Group consultant today to get started!