Organizational Commitment

Current Projects

Implementing Evidence-Based Principles in Community Corrections: Leading Organizational Change and Development
Evidence-Based Practice: Principles for Enhancing Correctional Results in Prisons
Implementing Effective Correctional Management of Offenders in the Community: Outcome and Process Measures
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: Quality Assurance Manual
Implementing Effective Correctional Management of Offenders in the Community: Implementation Checklist
Our System of Corrections: Do Jails Play a Role in Improving Offender Outcomes?

Many community corrections organizations are facing the challenges of increasing caseloads and limited budgets and resources. Some leaders of those organizations are rethinking how they do business and how to lead their organizations through rapid change and innovation. It is not an easy process, and it requires energetic leadership and a willingness to place equal focus on evidence-based principles related to service delivery, collaboration, and organizational development.

Organizational development mirrors the concepts and strategies of evidence-based principles for effective offender programming. The principles of assessment, intervention, and monitoring/measuring are applicable to most organizational development efforts and sufficiently simple and direct to allow for guided implementation in community corrections agencies. (NIC/CJI)