TDCJ Course Bundle

This course is required for all staff within the first 60 days of employment. This course is intended to inform individuals who will work directly with clients/patients/offenders/participant about the Therapeutic Community Model of Care. The course addresses all the the required TC Overview training mandates and has a minimum time requirements of 12 hours.

This course is required for all TDCJ staff annually. This course is intended to refresh and inform the knowledge, skills and attitudes of individuals who will work directly with residents in a Therapeutic Community Program.

Mood disorders are pervasive in prisons and jails. This course discusses how depression manifests and what we can do to help people reenter society. This is course is required by all TDCJ Funded Staff.

This course is intended for staff working in Therapeutic Community Treatment Program. The intent of this course is to give staff a perspective of the special needs of offenders with multiple needs and disabilities.

This course is for all new employee who will work in a TDCJ funded program.

Preventing relapse is an important part of treatment, discharge planning and recovery support.

This course is required for all TDCJ funded TC staff at new hire and annually. The course is intended to teach staff working in TC programs how to teach and communicate effectively and therapeutically in this specialized treatment environment. This course can also be helpful to all clinicians as it covers therapeutic communication.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice requires all programs that receive funding to serve criminal offenders in Texas receive annual training of related to re-entry and reintegration. Individuals who have be institutionalized, in any setting, need special attention focused on helping to re-enter and adjust to mainstream society and the expectations of participation. Persons who have been incarcerated experience a multitude on complex circumstance that make them especially vulnerable. Because you most likely work in a community-based substance abuse treatment program that specializes in post incarcerated persons with a history of addiction, you are the first point of contact for these individuals. TDCJ wants you to prepared to help your clients not only recover from addiction, but also successfully integrate into the larger community.

This course is required for all staff within the first 60 days of employment. This course is intended to inform individuals who will work directly with clients/patients/offenders/participant about the Therapeutic Community Group Processes. This course has a minimum time requirement of 3 hours.

Required for all TDCJ facility staff. This course must be completed at hire and annually thereafter.

This course explores the special social and cultural life style of incarcerated persons. This course intend is to help community based providers understand the environment from which they are receiving people and how it may impact the transition to community based services.

This course is required, annually, by all Texas Department of Criminal Justice funded treatment facility staff. This course meet the federal and state mandates related to preventing sexual abuse of involuntarily confined persons. Much of this course and PREA in itself refers to jails and prisons as this is where much exploitation occurs. However, community-based service providers, such as TC programs also present circumstances where offenders/clients/patients may be at risk for exploitation. As such, all staff working in these community-based programs must be trained on the law and how to prevent exploitation and abuse of current and past offenders.