Corrections Assessment Forum CAF

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Corrections Assessment Forum (CAF)

• Annette Turner Duggan, Government Skills
  Australia and Desi Poursanidis, (PACCOA)

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CAF - background

• 2 main areas in Correctional Services Custodial
  Community Corrections, differing structures and
  cultures
• Structured, command control workplace
  environment
• Private Government organisations
• 11 participants mainly operational training
  personnel, TAFE providers, training practitioners

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CAF agreed goals

• To share learning and ideas
• To develop their own and others professional
  capabilities
• To share resources
• Identify opportunities for consistency in
  assessment across states and territories

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CAF achievements

• Fortnightly teleconferences
• PD and sharing where none was available before
• Participants are talking to each other, inside
  outside of CAF
• Recognition of consistent areas of innovation and
  issue
• Participation in 2 day workshops

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CAF pivot

• Face to face meeting/workshop
• Facilitated workshops
• Supervisor support
• Creating a shared resource

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CAF assisted most by

• The sharing of resources. This gave us the
  opportunity to examine what others are doing in
  assessment and compare with how we do it    
• Interaction at the conference workshop and
  openness of the participants
• Informal group discussions 
• Good facilitation

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Facilitating in a command control environment

• Nebulous vs. structure
• Gradually breaking down perceived barriers
• Allowed conversations
• Becoming formal
• Setting boundaries
• Patience,
• Acknowledgement of different cultures within
  organisations

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And heres .. Desi