CEPP will provide training and coaching to ensure that agency team members are able to deliver the various assessment methods.
The SAGE process is typically completed over 6-8 months and includes four phases.
The SAGE instrument explores evidence-based and gender-responsive research across six domains: Leadership and Culture, Staffing and Training, Assessment and Case Planning, Programs and Services, Supervision Strategies, and Quality Assurance and Evaluation.
During the SAGE process, project coordinators will participate in one 2-hour planning and SAGE preparation meeting, and six 3-hour training sessions with all team members. Session titles are listed below.
Project Coordinators should expect to spend approximately 12-14 days on this project over an eight-month period. Team members should expect to spend approximately seven days on this project over a six-month period. The most intense time commitment occurs during months three and four as sites complete the assessment activities.
Agencies invited to participate in the SAGE process, are required to identify a project coordinator responsible for managing each phase of the SAGE project. The project coordinator is encouraged to identify staff and other team members voluntarily and who share a strong interest in advancing outcomes for women and gender diverse populations. Ideally, team members will also share expertise in one or more of the domains. Generally, smaller agencies are encouraged to identify 4-6 team members, while larger agencies should consider six to eight team members.
After the data is collected and summarized, each agency will use the SAGE scoring manual, to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities in each domain. The results can then serve as the foundation for strategic planning efforts and provide targeted recommendations to assist agencies in refining specific policies and practices. The results 2, of the SAGE can also be used to change key practices and programs to be more gender-responsive.
Over the last two decades, NIC has collaborated with national experts to create a series of comprehensive assessments to explore how closely agency-wide policies and practices align with evidence-based research that supports improved outcomes for women and individuals who identify as gender diverse. A brief description of each instrument is provided below:
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) joins the country in celebrating National Military Appreciation Month. Many of you are veterans yourselves, and we are proud to acknowledge you and the many staff at NIC who have also served our country.
The NIC Justice-Involved Veterans initiative has been powered for many years by a combination of dedicated veteran and civilian staff working with federal, nonprofit, and community partners. Their work has led to the development of a variety of publications and other resources that help veterans find productive pathways out of the criminal justice system. Through these resources, staff working in jails, prisons, community corrections agencies, and the courts have readily available information that can help them connect justice-involved veterans to the medical care, benefits, programs, and housing they need to help them transition successfully back to the community with support to remain crime free.
Veterans Reentry Programming is one of the resources we developed that offer case studies of reentry programs being supported by courts and departments of correction around the country. The book also introduces the Sequential Intercept Model, which illustrates the continuum of touchpoints that veterans have as they work their way back to the community. Together, these resources highlight the fact that assistance for veterans cannot occur in a vacuum. In much the same way that an army of individuals must learn to work as one, so too, must we learn to collaborate with a variety of partners to offer veterans the help they deserve.
NIC is honored to be able to provide the field with justice-involved veteran resources. Please visit our Justice-Involved Veterans webpage to access these and other resources, including audiobooks and videos, that you can use right now in your agency or jurisdiction.
NIC does not currently have the T4C curriculum available for distribution in languages other than English. Agencies who are delivering T4C are strongly encouraged, based on their client population needs, to have the English version of T4C 4.0 translated to ensure fidelity in the curriculum's delivery to non-English speaking participants.