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October 2021
EPTA News
Flashback: 14th EPTA Annual Conference
This year, the EPTA Annual Conference was a hybrid event, organized in Warsaw by the Polish Academy of Justice on the topic 'Prison Service in Time of COVID: Impact on training and teaching'. During the 3-day conference, additional three topics were addressed in a form of workshops on fighting alcoholism and addiction, psychological training in prison service, and human rights. At the end of the conference, the Centre of Legal Studies and Specialized Training in Catalonia was announced to hold the next presidency of 2022. Click here to read about the next holder of the EPTA presidency.

Presentations, recordings and report from the conference are available here.
EPTA LinkedIn Page
A LinkedIn page has been created for the EPTA Network. To view and follow the page, click on the LinkedIn logo below:
KMS report
EPTA secretariat periodically receives queries, and in this section, we will highlight the latest KMS reports. Click on the link to view responses:


Events
Meeting on how to effectively train prison staff and partners for P/CVE
The RAN Prisons Working Group is seeking to learn from the first-hand experiences of prison staff and their partners who have been on the receiving end of P/CVE trainings. One of the aims of this meeting is to identify the most crucial elements, competences and skills required for prison staff and their partners to be able to address radicalisation and extremism within the prison context. Is there an expert at your training academy or prison service that would be eligible to join this meeting?
 
International Training School on Core Correctional Skills 
If you are working in a prison or probation service and you wish to refresh your competencies or upskill your practice this course is for you! The Core Correctional Skills training kit focuses on developing five of the most important practices that are associated in the literature with desistance or reduced reoffending: how to build up a working alliance; pro-social modeling; problem-solving; motivational interviewing and cognitive restructuring. International Training School on Core Correctional Skills will take place on 8-12 November 2021 in Barcelona at the Center for Legal Studies.
 
International English Webinar
Prison professionals who want to practice their professional English are invited to apply for the following webinar: “The leadership role in psychosocial emergency care” facilitated by Peter Schulte, Lower Saxony, will be taking place on Wednesday 10 November.
 
Symposium on restorative justice: multifaceted and shifting frontiers
The French National Correctional Administration Academy (ENAP) is organising an international symposium online: “Restorative justice: multifaceted and shifting frontiers” taking place on  16-17 November 2021. During these two days there will be an opportunity to assess the development of restorative justice in France, ten years after its first testing in a security prison in Poissy. It will also be an ideal opportunity to explore, with specialized researchers, restorative justice from an international perspective: its models, purposes and issues.
 
Forum on Detention and Probation: Education – a driver for change
The Swiss Centre of Expertise in Prison and Probation (SCEPP) is organising the fourth Forum on Detention and Probation and it is dedicated to the topic of “Education – a driver for change”. It will take place on 24-25 November 2021 in a hybrid format at the Beaulieu Congress Centre in Lausanne and online. The forum is in German and French languages, however, there is the possibility to assist online, and plenary sessions will be translated into English.
 
Seminar on Radicalisation and Rehabilitation
On 9 December 2021, the Confederation of European Probation (CEP) is organising a seminar in the Framework of the HELP project (Radicalisation Prevention, Judicial Response to Terrorism & International Cooperation in Criminal Matters’).  The event will take place in the Center for Legal Studies and Specialized Training in Barcelona.
 
Publications
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Peer-led problem support scheme for prisoners and prison staff
The problem support mentor scheme was developed in the UK, involves training prison staff and prisoners to develop problem-solving skills using a six-step model to solve and cope better with problems in custody and when released in the community. Research evidence shows how the scheme reduces repeat self-harm behaviour and improves the confidence, quality of life, and self-esteem. The materials from the scheme were adapted for use in the Polish Penitentiary System with collaboration from the Academy of Justice in Warsaw, prison staff, and prisoners.
The E-learning module on Dynamic Security is now available in English
The Swiss Centre of Expertise in Prison and Probation (SCEPP) developed an interactive E-learning module on Dynamic Security. It has been created to inform (future) prison staff the basic knowledge of dynamic security and to show its implementation in practice. The e-learning module is freely accessible and takes about 60 minutes. It is now available in four languages (English, German, French and Italian).

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