ATI Basics: Models of Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI)

ATI initiatives exist at all stages of the criminal justice continuum – from pre-arrest deflection to prosecutorial and court diversion, and community supervision/reentry. Appropriate levels of accountability, along with individualized treatment and service planning, are combined to achieve sustained recovery, rehabilitation, and community reintegration. This results in decreased drug use, decreased crime, increased employment, and cost savings for their communities.

The final ATI Basics Webinar, Models of ATI, explores how countries are developing systems of Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) that provide access to treatment, care, and accountability across the entire justice continuum. ICATI’s Global Lead will moderate a panel discussion featuring international experts from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean for the first 60 minutes, followed by an opportunity to ask questions to them and share their experiences in our 30-minute networking discussion and Q&A.

ATI Basics is a four-part webinar series designed to provide a foundation in the following areas:
1.   Why ATI
2.   Fundamentals of ATI
3.   SUD Treatment for Persons in the Justice System
4.   Models of ATI

Intended audience:

Justice (law enforcement, prosecutors, defense counsel, magistrates, judges, probation, parole, corrections), health (medical, substance use treatment, mental health, pharmacology), community service/non-governmental organizations, government representatives, international agencies, implementation sites, and professionals who are interested in developing ATI initiatives are invited to participate.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of participating in this webinar, participants will:

Learn how countries throughout the globe have been able to adapt and implement ATI across diverse geographic and legal settings
Gain insights into how ATI systems incorporate key building blocks including justice/health/community system roles, and use individual risks and needs to determine the right approach
Understand how case care management facilitates service planning and delivery.
Participate in a discussion with the experts that includes questions and ideas from you and your colleagues.

Presenters:

Michele Worobiec, JD, CCM - Global Lead, International Consortium for Alternatives to Incarceration (ICATI)

Michele Worobiec is a recognized international expert who works to make communities safe and healthy through policy, legislation, multi system-based strategies, and best practices. Michele served as Magistrate/Acting Judge and Ohio Supreme Court Policy Counsel. Her executive leadership includes VP/Chief Counsel of TASC, President of NAMSDL (legislative, policy), Division Director of the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions, and Founder/CEO of Silta Strategy (consulting, legal services).
Michele Worobiec is a Global Expert and Co-Author of the international courses on Alternatives to Incarceration for Policy Leaders (UTC 81) and Case Care Management (UTC 82). Michele now leads the newly formed International Consortium for Alternatives to Incarceration (ICATI).

Yvonne Olando, Ph.D - Director of Public Education and Advocacy, National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Dr. Yvonne Olando has 15 years consolidated experience in the substance use prevention and management sector. She is a Clinical Psychologist and a Certified International Addiction Professional (ICAP IV). She is a Tobacco Cessation Specialist (CTTS-MAYO, USA), Global Drug Demand Reduction Trainer (UNODC) and Global Master Trainer, Universal Treatment Curriculum (Colombo Plan). She is a World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders Fellow. She was ISSUP-Kenya Chapter’s first Secretary.
Dr. Olando holds a Doctorate Degree and MSc in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nairobi, and a Bachelors in Psychology from Moi University. She also holds a graduate certificate in Global Tobacco Control from John Hopkins School of Public Health, Bloomberg (USA), and a Diploma in Chemical Dependency studies from Support for Addictions Prevention and Treatment in Africa (SAPTA).
She is the Director in charge of Public Education and Advocacy at the National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA).

Massimo Barra, MD - President Emeritus, Italian Red Cross Founder, Villa Maraini Foundation Roma

Massimo Barra born in Rome in 1947, graduated with honors in medicine in 1972, had two great priorities in his life for which he spent all of himself: The Red Cross and the recovery of people with drug disorders. He founded in 1976 the Villa Maraini Drug Recovery Center, becoming one of the leading expert on drug and public health strategies worldwide.
Over more than 45 years, the Centre radically increased its activities and services, becoming a reference organisation in the field of substance abuse treatment as well as in the promotion of humanitarian drug policies for Red Cross Societies and for CSOs too. Nowadays, provides a wide range of therapies and services to around 700 drug users per day.

Barra is the author of hundreds of articles, speeches and publications on harm reduction, rehabilitation strategies and humanitarian drug policies promoted along all these years of commitment in the field. The main strategy of intervention of Dr. Barra consists of adapting the therapy to the subject and not vice versa. He was the first in the world to promote the use of Naloxone by non-medical staff for overdose emergencies. Thanks to this approach, over 2,500 patients have been saved in the streets of Rome that were about to die for overdose.

Lee Edson P. Yarcia, MD, JD - Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law

Dr. Lee Edson P. Yarcia is a lawyer and a physician working in the field of public health and human rights.
He is Senior Lecturer of Constitutional Law, Legal History, and Medical Jurisprudence at the University of the Philippines College of Law. Dr. Yarcia previously served as the National Programme Officer of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the Philippines, where he managed the drugs country portfolio, including the innovative international technical cooperation on promoting and protecting human rights in the context of drug control in the philippines - the United Nations Joint Programme for Human Rights, and the pilot demonstration project Alternatives to Incarceration in the Philippines supported by the United States Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Frances Turton-Long, P, AS, & M, Chief Probation Officer, Ag

Frances Turton-Long currently serves as the Chief Probation Officer in Probation Services Division, Ministry of National Security in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Turton-Long having acquired her degrees both in Canada and Trinidad. She has over twenty years of experience in the criminal justice system. She has dedicated her career to fostering rehabilitation and ensuring public safety. One of her most significant accomplishmentswas the establishment of the Bail Supervision Program in 2009. This program offers a supervised alternative to pre-trial detention, through advocacy, counselling, monitoring and referrals. When the program began, it had a mere 4 young men. To date, the program now has over two hundred participants supervised by Probation Officers- all striving to ensure that these young persons are made aware that crime is not their only option.

Ms. Turton-Long also served as a member of the steering committee for the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court and was a member of the Drug Treatment Court in San Fernando from its inception in 2012. In her current role of Acting Chief Probation Officer, Ms. Turton-Long along with her team of professionals hope that their dedication will continue to make a positive impact on the youth and communities of Trinidad and Tobago.

Language:

The event will be in English with interpretation available in Spanish.

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Kindly note this final series of a four-part webinar series.

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Interpretation

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