Promote positive cognitive change among offenders, transforming the "stinking thinking" that keeps them stuck in destructive behaviors that lead to repeat incarcerations! This 6-part video/DVD series features multi-ethnic ex-offenders discussing their change from destructive thinking patterns to pro-social thinking patterns. Approximately 20 minutes each. A REPRODUCIBLE guide is included with each series.

1: Are You Ready for Cognitive Change?
Ex-offenders reveal that "Stinking Thinking" keeps you stuck in destructive behavior and can even lead to repeat incarceration. By giving examples of "Stinking Thinking" and how it affects behavior, they explain why cognitive change is needed.

2. Cognitive Change: How Do I Change My Thinking? Part I
The participants discuss cognitive change as a slow process that requires a desire to change and determination. They reveal the faulty beliefs that led to their criminal addictive mindset.

3. Cognitive Change: How Do I Change My Thinking? Part II
The "Insanity Principle" is described as doing the same thing, expecting different results, but getting the same results! Let go of the "Insanity Principle," advise the participants. And, unlearning "Stinking Thinking" requires a 180 degree turnaround.

4. Implementing Cognitive Change - Making it Permanent: Part I
The ex-offender participants share how the long, slow process of cognitive change can eventually lead to permanent change. They stress that you must be honest, have a sincere desire to change, set goals and have a plan to reach them.

5. Implementing Cognitive Change - Making it Permanent: Part II
"You can't go it alone and be successful," say the participants. A support group can make the difference. They also stress that cognitive change is a life-long process, hard, but worth it!

6. Ex-offenders Offer Insight and Advice
While everyone has their own journey to take on the way to permanent cognitive change, advice from those who have been there can help. Learn what the ex-offenders are doing now and how they give back by helping others along the way.

Prepare offenders for success on parole by having a purpose, a plan, and a back-up plan!  While finding housing, employment, and transportation are important to parolees, simple mistakes can undo the best plans, resulting in parole violations and a return to prison.  This 4-part video/DVD series features multi-ethnic ex-offenders offering insights and advice.  Approximately 20 minutes each.  A REPRODUCIBLE guide is included with each series.

1: Mapping it Out
Ex-offenders, both men and women, share their experiences while on parole, stressing the need for having goals and a purpose, a plan, and a back-up plan!  They caution that the ex-offender should not expect instant success and should not try to go it alone.

2: Getting in Gear
The participants recall how they took responsibility for their lives as ex-offenders on parole by making good choices.  They also reveal that sometimes they stumbled before they could go forward!

3: Revving it up with Resources
Ask for help when you need it, advise the ex-offender participants!  They focus on how to identify and find the many varieties of resources that will work for the ex-offender and advise them not to wait until release to research resources.
 
4: Keeping it between the Lines
The participants share what they are doing now and how they got there.  They emphasize, again, that planning is key, along with making good choices and using resources.  They give a message of hope that ex-offenders can manage their parole and can be successful!

Suicide and its ideology are common problems faced by correctional facilities.  This series of 8 videos/DVDs is designed as basic training for correctional officers, administration and staff working in today's jails and prisons.  The first four videos/DVDs, Part I, are intended to cover basic requirements for a two-hour annual suicide training.  The last four videos/DVDs, Part II, contain a facilities and programs overview and additional staff interviews.  Approximately 26 minutes each.

PART I
1: Myths, Liabilities & Policies
2: Risk Factors, Suicide Model, Booking & Screening
3: Incident Response
4: Aftermath / Post-Event Investigations

PART II
5: Facilities & Programs
6: Additional Interviews - Sheriff
7: Additional Interviews - Jail Administrator / Frontline Staff
8: Additional Interviews - Mental Health Response

Disclaimer:
This educational video/DVD series is designed to cover basic information on suicide in adult correctional settings. It is not intended to replace the judgment of the medical/mental health providers in the jail or prison. The instructor or producer are not responsible for the application of this information with any particular individual. They are not responsible for any errors, omissions or misapplication in/of this video series. Users are expected to stay current with all applicable research.

Dr. Sheretts is currently the Mental Health/Criminal Justice Manager for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Corrections of the State of Maine. He is a forensic psychologist, a former deputy sheriff, EMT, and a negotiator with an emergency response unit. He has held numerous academic positions at several universities.

This 4-part series features multi-ethnic ex-offenders discussing parenting from prison and beyond. The series also features Barbara Rasmussen, parenting teacher at the Racine Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, who offers her expert advice and a message of hope to parents in prison. Approximately 25 minutes each. A REPRODUCIBLE guide is included with each series.

1: What does it Mean to be a Parent?
Participants tell the true stories of their experiences as parents in prison. They discuss the frustrations
of separation, relationships with caretakers, and how they provided emotional support for their children during their incarceration.

2: Rights and Responsibilities
Participants talk about the difference between the legal responsibility of support and real parenting.
Most importantly, they address how one earns the right to be in a child's life!

3: Keeping in Touch
Participants discuss what they did to keep parent-child bonds together while in prison. They talk about visits, special occasions, and the necessity of sending a constant message of love.

4: Going Home
Participants talk about how they reestablished their parental relationship with their children using resources and how they dealt with issues of anger, trust and forgiveness. They conclude by revealing what things, large and small, went wrong when they got home, and how they could have better prepared for the reality of reunion.

This workbook helps inmates deal with anger. Explains causes of anger, and offers ways to manage it. Widely used and tested for inmates and parolees.
94 pp. Leader's Guide, 102 pp.

Based on the adult workbook, this DVD includes scenes to demonstrate anger management and facilitates discussions. 175 minutes. Includes one Leader's Guide and one Cage Your Rage workbook.

A follow-up to Cage Your Rage, this book continues to help gain insight into working through anger. Focuses on goals that must be achieved to live life on the "outside."

93 pp.