Conferences & Training

When: November 20-21, 2024

​​​Where: Wyndham Garden State College, 310 Elks Club Road, Boalsburg, PA 16827

Who Should Attend: Court personnel, county adult probation and parole, and corrections professionals who serve as decision-makers pertaining to the hiring process of their agency. ​

This two-day event will feature Col. Brenda Dietzman (ret.), a speaker who provides evidence-based training solutions and inspiring presentations for both individual and organizational improvement. Her areas of expertise include resilience, leadership, developing women leaders, and generational topics.

Additional lodging options include the Courtyard State College and Residence Inn State College​.

When: April 22-23, 2025

Where: 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803

The theme of the 2025 CJAB Conference is From Crisis to Collaboration: Building Resilient Justice Systems​.  As Pennsylvania grapples with issues like rising mental health needs, substance use, and workforce and resource strains, this theme centers on cross-sector partnerships and collaborative solutions.  Discussions will include successful collaborations between behavioral health, law enforcement, and community organizations.  

In planning our conferences and events, we evaluate attendee feedback from the previous year to ensure that we provide quality programming based on the needs and interests of our conference attendees.  Therefore, we are seeking presenters and sessions that can offer insight into the programs and educational materials that successfully address these areas.  

Preference will be given to proposals highlighting innovative solutions, evidence-based, best practices, and promising approaches with relevant content and experience.  Special focus on demonstrable programs that are scalable to smaller rural settings and the utilization of existing or limited resources are preferred.  The use of modern technologies, enhanced supervision practices, expanded therapeutic strategies, and alternatives to incarceration are also appreciated.

Examples of the types of presentations we're seeking are listed below and are not all-inclusive:

• CJAB Best Practices (i.e., engaging members, leadership and succession planning, strategic planning)
• Courts and Corrections (i.e., pre-trial, diversionary programs, problem-solving courts, innovative approaches to behavioral health in justice settings)
  
• Law Enforcement and Community Safety (i.e., community engagement, gun violence strategies and initiatives, diversion and school safety initiatives, drug trends, community-centered solutions for violence prevention)
  
• Reentry (i.e., jail-based programs, reentry initiatives, community partnerships, housing, employment, and transitional programming)
• Behavioral Health (i.e., mental health, collaborative models for crisis response, substance use or co-occurring initiatives for justice-involved individuals, MAT programs, coordinated efforts to best utilize opioid settlement funds)
• General/Other (i.e., strengthening relationships between the justice system and local communities, trauma-informed justice and approaches)

​Our target audience includes law enforcement, courts, probation, corrections, county leaders, behavioral health practitioners, other criminal justice-related professionals, and community members.  Proposals can consist of various presentation styles, including one or more speakers, a panel presentation, video(s), or a combination of these or other presentation styles.  Proposed sessions should be 1.25 hours (75 minutes, including Q&A).  Please complete all sections of the Call for Presenters application. 

For your proposal to be considered, please complete, and submit all materials by Tuesday, November 12, 2024.  Selected presenters will be notified on or before Friday, December 6, 2024.

In 2019, the County Adult Probation and Parole Advisory Committee (CAPPAC) was created within the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). The CAPPAC is charged with, among other things, developing and supporting basic and continuing education training for county adult probation and parole officers.

PCCD is seeking qualified individuals to voluntarily participate as instructors for the Basic Training Academy (BTA) for County Adult Probation and Parole Officers. The BTA consists of two weeks of training – the first week is offered "live" virtually, and the second week is offered in-person in the State College area. The BTA will be offered at different times throughout the year.

Please be prepared to upload relevant materials (i.e. CV, resume, references, examples of presentations, etc.).