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Goal: Minimisation of the risk of re-offending through targeted and coordinated intervention services

Strategy: Develop and deliver a range of interventions appropriate to the assessed risks and needs of offenders, including targeted interventions to meet cultural, gender and disability needs

The Department:

• expanded its Indigenous Sex Offender Program to Lotus Glen and Capricornia correctional centres. Six facilitators were trained to deliver the program.
• collaborated with Queensland Health to review mental health services provided to prisoners. Special focus has been given to Indigenous prisoners and prisoners with an intellectual disability.
• conducted a survey of culturally and linguistically diverse female offenders who did not speak English or had English as a second language in order to assess needs.
• established an intra-departmental program reform group to review program service delivery in community and custodial corrections.

Strategy: Design and implement monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure that interventions are effective and delivered efficiently

The Department:

• established a multi-disciplinary Program Accreditation Panel to accredit all new programs and services as being appropriate for delivery to offenders, bringing Queensland into line with contemporary best practice.
• completed an evaluation of the anger management program.
• commissioned evaluations of the community corrections sex offenders program, sex offenders intervention program, and the substance abuse: preventing and managing relapse program.

More than 20 community and custodial officers from across the State gathered at the Department’s Training and Development Centre (TDC) as a first step towards developing competencies for facilitators, co-facilitators and supervisors of sex and violence offending programs.

Over two days, participants brainstormed in three groups to compile an extensive list of skills, abilities and attitudes, which they felt successful facilitators needed to possess.

Psychological and Counselling Services Manager John Murray said the ideas would be used to compile competencies aimed at meeting national training standards.

“These competencies will be put to staff for consultation, and once approved, all facilitators will undergo an accreditation process,” he said.

“The competencies may also highlight areas where staff need to undergo additional training, and will form the basis for employing new facilitators.”

John said the competencies would be critical to ensuring the Department delivered effective sex and violence offending programs.

“It’s not sufficient for the Department to just have good programs,” he said. “These programs need to be delivered by competent, well-trained staff of the highest standards.”

Facilitators from across the State gathered at the TDC to develop competencies

Department of Corrective Services
Annual Report 2003-04