Continuing the PREA in Action Webinar Series, Embracing the Standards, will address how the PREA standards can be applied successfully in a youth corrections environment.  This third webinar will feature how the Colorado Division of Youth Services have “embraced PREA as part of providing a safe environment and healthy culture for youth and staff as well as the specific steps the agency has taken and plans to take to implement the PREA standards”.

Presenters:

• Dave Maynard, Director of Facility Operations, Division of Youth Corrections
• Anders Jacobson, Director, Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center, Division of Youth Corrections
• Kristen Withrow, LCSW, CACII, Assistant Director, Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center, Division of Youth Corrections

Date:  September 13, 2012, 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET

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For additional information from NIC: PREA resources and Youth in Corrections