SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation, operated by Policy Research Associates, Inc., is continuing to provide direct training and technical assistance to jurisdictions across the nation to better support people with behavioral health needs who are involved in the criminal justice system. Each year, the GAINS Center provides its trauma-informed responses training, How Being Trauma Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses, to the field via direct deliveries and Train-the-Trainer (TTT) events. The target audiences for this training program are community-based criminal justice system professionals, including community corrections officers (probation, parole, and pre-trial services), reentry staff, peers, court personnel, law enforcement officers (including local Crisis Intervention Team trainers), and human service providers who work with criminal justice-involved adult populations.
To find out more about the How Being Trauma Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses training program, please visit the GAINS Center website.
The GAINS Center is now soliciting applications from experienced trainers (individuals) who are interested in developing their capacity to provide trauma-informed training in their local agencies/communities via the How Being Trauma Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses curriculum. Selected applicants will learn to facilitate the training via a virtual TTT event and subsequently deliver the training program in their local communities. While not a requirement to apply to this opportunity, this year’s selection process will place special emphasis on applicants who provide training to drug courts and/or reentry programs. Some preference will be given to applicants that serve marginalized and/or underserved populations.
The GAINS Center’s TTT virtual event is designed to train participants on both in-person and virtual delivery of the training described above, and to equip participants with the skills and resources necessary to effectively deliver the training themselves in either format.
The GAINS Center is offering this virtual event at no cost to experienced trainers who successfully complete the application process. All applicants must have the technological capacity to engage in the TTT, including having access to an individual PC/workstation that has internet access and the ability to download and launch virtual meeting software. If this TTT event for individuals is of interest to you, please review the solicitation and submit your completed application form to the GAINS Center no later than February 20, 2024.
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to become the local “expert” in this training program for your agency or community!
There will be at least two virtual TTT events scheduled, with the possibility of a third, for April 17 and 18, May 13 and 16, and/or June 4 and 6, 2024. Please note the dates before applying and include your availability in the application as directed. If selected, you will be expected to be available for at least two of the three options. All applicants MUST be able to attend for one of these sets of dates and remain for the duration of the two-day training.
We thank you in advance for your interest and look forward to reviewing your application.
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.