Yls/Cmi Section Meeting

YLS/CMI SECTION MEETING May 17, 2005

In attendance: Tom Simerson-Wallfred, Mary Evers, Scott Phillips, Eric Johnson, Greg Cady, Sue Stacey. Notes by Sue.  Sue was drafted as section meeting facilitator (while out of the room!).  Toni Spears made a list of the new YLS/CMI Master Trainers (see end of this document)  Final Scoring Key questions were resolved. Sue will check with Tim Wille to see if he got a more recent response from Dr. Hoge about electronic home monitoring (EHM) and, if not, we will use language reflecting Minnesota’s situation with EHM as discussed with Dr. Hoge. Sue will separately e-mail the Scoring Key revisions for your review before releasing the revised Scoring Key.  Important Points for Trainers to Make During Booster Trainings: o Tell correctional facility staff that their 1st YLS assessment on a youth is a re- assessment, not an initial assessment, since the youth most probably comes with a prior assessment done by community supervision staff. o Tell community supervision staff that when they have a youth who was on probation, got off it, and is back with a new offense 3 (e.g.) months later, they should call their YLS a new/initial assessment.  YLS/CMI Curriculum 1st Draft: Discussion of the current draft (written into Lessons 1-5 by Sue, using the Master Trainers’ draft materials). Decisions: o All Master Trainers are asked to review the current draft (Sue will e-mail it) and to send Sue revisions, fill-in’s, new material, and other comments about it by June 6th. o Master Trainer authors are asked to review their part and pull out or list things (e.g., lists of points, diagrams, forms, other handouts) that they want put into the corresponding Participant Manual section, and to preferably e-mail Sue that stuff by June 6th so she can combine/format it into a Participant Manual for the June 9 mtg. o Master Trainer authors are also encouraged to either make PowerPoint slides for their sections or else to make a list of points (or diagrams) they want in PowerPoint slides, and e-mail those to Sue by June 6th. Michael Guevara has volunteered to make slides for whoever would like that aid, after the June 9th o Eric (was) volunteered to draft the initial case management part, before the CMI- writing exercise. Sue will fax him the online course pages on that topic. o Greg was asked to write the final bits after his section: sum-up of the training, “test”/review, and instructions about taking the 2nd online course and getting training certificates (will be received after passing 2nd online course). o Question from Sue to the Blended Learning Work Group: Do we need to have a “test”/review at the end of the classroom portion when folks are going to take the 2nd online course test of watching a videotape & writing the assessment/CMI? o Sue will incorporate the new material, revisions, fill-in’s and comments into the Trainer’s Guide 2nd draft for review at the June 9th meeting.  Decision: Sue will schedule the YLS Trainings for Trainers for the 2nd and 4th weeks of September (rather than late August and early September) and then October and November, to give us more time to develop the T4T curriculum.  Next section meetings: o June 9th, 9:00am-2:00pm, at DOC (Pung 3). Agenda: Review and discussion of the case materials chosen for curriculum Case Study #2, and review of 2nd curriculum draft – Trainer’s Guide and (hopefully) Participant Manual. o June 28th if we need it for finalizing the curriculum! 9:00-2:00 at DOC (Pung 1).