Individual Interventions

The EPICS model combines foundational correctional intervention research coupled with recent findings in community supervision. Using this model, officers follow a structured approach to client sessions to apply the principles of effective intervention and core correctional practices specifically to community supervision practices.

EPICS Overview

A key component of using the EPICS model during a supervision session is creating the opportunity to teach or review an intervention. When a staff and a person under supervision have a collaborative relationship, the opportunity can be much more impactful in modeling and shaping healthy behavior. The video clip below offers an intervention example where the staff and person work together with a real life situation to practice choosing healthy behaviors that lead to long-term change.

The EPICS model combines foundational correctional intervention research coupled with recent findings in community supervision, and further applies this knowledge with prosocial influencers in the lives of community populations. 

EPICS-I Overview

Research supports a set of staff practices that have shown successful in promoting long-term behavior change of the individuals with which we work. Appropriate to all who work with justice-involved persons, Core Correctional Practices identifies both skills and strategies that staff can use to increase the effect opportunities for greater individual success outcomes. 

CCP Overview

Motivational Interviewing is a set of skills used to promote positive behavior change by encouraging a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change.  

MI Overview