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Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice Begins Phase Two of ART® Project
The State of Alaska initiated the second year of their ambitious vision to provide cognitive behavioral, evidenced based interventions for the youth in its care.
Today's Date -- The State of Alaska
continued the development of its cognitive behavioral interventions with a
five-day training for Trainers of ART® Group Facilitators conducted by
Dr. Barry Glick sole surviving co-developer of Aggression Replacement Training®
and co-author of the revised
edition of the program published by Research Press, Inc. Alaska trained
five staff who met the standards and requirements to become Trainers of
ART® Group Facilitators while simultaneously training 14 additional staff to
become ART® Group Facilitators. The state previously trained 26 staff as
ART® Group Facilitators from which the current trainers were selected.
Staff from throughout the State, including Bethel, Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau as
well as Anchorage (where the training institute was held) attended. Dr.
Glick was assisted by Anna Hewitt from St. Paul, MN who is a Master Trainer
candidate (see Professional Aggression Replacement Training® Centers link under
services for training standards and requirements). Robert Seward, project
manager also attended the training and intends to implement the program with
youth as well.
The State has a vision to reinvent the quality of
services provided to its youth in care that includes organizational development,
program development, staff development and youth development
initiatives,
declared Steve McComb, Acting Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice in a
meeting with Dr. Glick. Mr. McComb would like to see all staff understand
the importance of differential and prescriptive programming for at risk youth
and hopes the ART® project is a step in that direction. The project also
includes a presentation by Dr. Glick to executive and middle managers in
December and a follow up Institute in the Spring of 2007. Dr. Glick will
also provide clinical and program supervision to staff on an as needed basis.
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