ORAN Meeting Notes

4/21/10

In attendance: Rachel Miller, Corey Mabis, Marc Bloomquist, Tom Eibes, Swantje Willers, Greg Boelter, Sue Eck Maahs, Stacy Hughes, Curt Petzel, TJ Nelson

Training Opportunities:

1. Tom asked who is in charge of the website and we said that we thought it was Jason. He said that the notes from past meetings are no longer current on the website, and there aren’t training opportunities listed there anymore. Swantje said she’d talk to Jason about it because it used to be Mary Oberstar, but she wasn’t sure who’s task it currently is.

2. LSI Updates: Tom discussed how the T4T just completed, and they trained around 24 new trainers. Said that he and Sandy Sostak are doing a full training Oct 21-22 at Central Office. Said that Jason would like some other full trainings set up for late Spring/early Summer so that some of the new peeps can be a part of a full training to practice. They eliminated the Phase 3 of the training, so there is no scoring practice to take home, they just do it at the Phase 2 training.

3. YLS/CMI Updates: Rachel let everyone know that we met and updated the interview guide and scoring key. Swantje said that Scott got Dr. Hoge’s email address from her, and none of us have seen an updated key yet, so he must still be going over changes. We talked about the “touchy” questions regarding sexuality, sexual activity, etc. We decided to leave the questions as part of the guide, but as a training piece let people know that there may be a more appropriate time than the initial interview to discuss this stuff with the kids. They are purely for responsivity factors, so it will not affect the scoring at all. There is a booster training in St. Cloud for DOC on 5/12, and Eric Johnson has so kindly volunteered to train.

4. Forum day: We need to advertise a lot for the next EBP Forum day, because our turnout for these meetings has been bleak at best. Swantje suggested shortening the times of the meetings so we don’t start so early and end so late. We discussed the possibility of having the meeting part tele-conference or E-conference for the people that can’t make it. Swantje said she’d ask Deb Kirschner about the technology of it. Corey talked to Sandy Hahn with the Female Offender Task Force. She said that they have scheduling issues when we have the meetings, so they would never host their full meeting on these days, but that they’d be able to maybe have a representative attend. Sandy said to have Julie Trisko talk to her about it. 5. Overrides: TJ and Stacy are facing an issue with a lack of policy around overrides. We looked up the DOC policy, and they allow for overrides for victim related issues (close proximity or extreme vulnerability), high profile/political issues, severe mental health concerns without community resources involved, or serious physical impairment. This applies to overrides to higher or lower levels of supervision. We also talked about how someone who is high risk that has a lot of protective factors can be bumped down in a risk area, and someone with medium risk or low risk with no protective factors can be bumped up.

6. LSI Accuracy: Swantje read a study about the WI risk assessment that made a reference to the LSI-R being only 66% effective in predicting risk, and we all thought that was pretty low. We talked about how they might have been looking just at one study, and that a review of a meta- analysis might be beneficial. Sue said that Molly Brunner has been doing some work in Ramsey County regarding that, and to contact her for more info.

7. ECM: Swantje wants a “case planning” training rather than an ECM training. Since we are getting on board with the MI stuff, Sue and Swantje agreed that the entire first day of ECM is kind of torture for participants, and that we should develop a training with more case planning practice so people become more skilled in that. TJ said that they’re struggling with their current case plan format, and they’re looking at developing a new one. Rachel showed her the Carver County model that many agencies are using, and will email it to her to use if they would like. Swantje will ask Jason to email the ECM people to see if they can get together to talk about a change in curriculum for the trainings.

There was a very small turnout for this meeting, and the other “nets” that met on our first day of the EBP Forum. Please, if you can, make participation in this a priority.

Next Meeting: July in Duluth. Whoever is hosting this, please contact Jason with a date and location asap so we can spread the word around.

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