Documents, Juvenile Justice Training Academy

Regional Training

•   Priorities in Action: Workplace Wellness

•   Professionalism and Tact: The Secret to Staff Motivation

Officer Training

•   An Overview of Becoming a Certified Juvenile Justice Professional: Process, Duties & Responsibilities

•   Certification Exam for Juvenile Probation or Juvenile Supervision Officers, Application for Accommodation

•   Certification Exam for Juvenile Probation or Juvenile Supervision Officers, Guidelines for Application for Accommodation

•   College or University Accreditation Verification Form

•   Credit for Webinar or E-Learning Course

•   Disciplinary Processes for Certified Officers

•   Disqualifying Criminal History Matrix

•   Employee Training Form TJP

•   Foreign Transcript Evaluation Services

•   JPO or JSO Certification Exam – Proctor Agreement Form

•   Legal Training Services or Technical Assistance Request Form

•   Legal Training Services or Technical Assistance Request Form

•   Regional Professional Development Training Request Form

•   Request to Use TJJD Funds to Attend Out-of-State Training

•   Training Services or Technical Assistance Request Form

JPO & JSO Certification Exam

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Agreement (for Officers taking exam)

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Application for Accommodation

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Application for Accommodation Guidelines

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Frequently Asked Question for Proctors

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Frequently Asked Questions

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Proctor Agreement

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Proctor Process Quick Reference Guide

•   JPO/JSO Certification Exam Suggested Introduction Script for Proctors

Basic Mandatory Curriculum

Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation: Identification I Reporting I Prevention

•   Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation: Identification | Reporting | Prevention (Lesson Plan) (Effective on May 1, 2024.)

•   Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation: Identification I Reporting I Prevention (Participant Guide) (Effective on May 1, 2024.)

•   Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation: Identification I Reporting I Prevention (Presentation) (Effective on May 1, 2024.)

Adolescent Development and Behavior

•   Adolescent Development and Behavior (Handout)

•   Adolescent Development and Behavior (Lesson Plan)

•   Adolescent Development and Behavior (Participant Guide)

•   Adolescent Development and Behavior (Presentation)

Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Proceedings

•   Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Proceedings (Handout)

•   Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Proceedings (Lesson Plan)

•   Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Proceedings (Participant Guide)

•   Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Proceedings (Presentation)

Communicable Diseases

•   Communicable Diseases (Lesson Plan)

•   Communicable Diseases (Participant Guide)

•   Communicable Diseases (Presentation Handout)

•   Communicable Diseases (Presentation)

Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations

•   Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations (Handout)

•   Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations (Lesson Plan)

•   Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations (Participant Guide)

•   Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations (PPT Handout)

•   Courtroom Proceedings and Dispositional Recommendations (Presentation)

Cultural Competency

•   Cultural Competency - Lesson Plan, October 2023

•   Cultural Competency - Participant Guide, October 2023

•   Cultural Competency - Presentation, October 2023

Healing Within: A Guide to Juvenile Mental Health Wellness

•   Healing Within: A Guide to Juvenile Mental Health Wellness - Lesson Plan

•   Healing Within: A Guide to Juvenile Mental Health Wellness - Participant Guide

•   Healing Within: A Guide to Juvenile Mental Health Wellness - Presentation

•   Healing Within: A Guide to Juvenile Mental Health Wellness - Video

JPO Basic Review Jeopardy Game

•   JPO Basic Review Jeopardy Game Lesson Plan, Oct. 2023

•   JPO Basic Review Jeopardy Game, Dec. 2023

JPO/JSO Basic Alternate Review Activity

•   JPO/JSO Basic Review Quiz Time (Lesson Plan)

•   JPO/JSO Basic Review Quiz Time (Presentation)

JSO Basic Review Quiz Time Game

•   JSO Basic Review Quiz Time Game Lesson Plan, Oct. 2023

•   JSO Basic Review Quiz Time Game, Oct. 2023

Juvenile Rights

•   Juvenile Rights (Lesson Plan)

•   Juvenile Rights (Participant Guide)

•   Juvenile Rights (Presentation Handout)

•   Juvenile Rights (Presentation)

Officer Safety: Stay Alert, Don’t Get Hurt

•   Officer Safety: Stay Alert, Don't Get Hurt (Lesson Plan)

•   Officer Safety: Stay Alert, Don't Get Hurt (Participant Guide)

•   Officer Safety: Stay Alert, Don't Get Hurt (Presentation Handout)

•   Officer Safety: Stay Alert, Don't Get Hurt (Presentation)

Personalized Case Management

•   Personalized Case Management (Handout)

•   Personalized Case Management (Lesson Plan)

•   Personalized Case Management (Millionaire Presentation)

•   Personalized Case Management (Participant Guide)

•   Personalized Case Management (Presentation)

Prison Rape Elimination Act: Purpose and Goals

•   Prison Rape Elimination Act: Purpose and Goals (Handout)

•   Prison Rape Elimination Act: Purpose and Goals (Lesson Plan)

•   Prison Rape Elimination Act: Purpose and Goals (Participant Guide)

•   Prison Rape Elimination Act: Purpose and Goals (Presentation)

Recognizing and Supervising Juveniles with Mental Health Issues

•   Recognizing and Supervising Juveniles with Mental Health Issues (Lesson Plan)

•   Recognizing and Supervising Juveniles with Mental Health Issues (Participant Guide)

•   Recognizing and Supervising Juveniles with Mental Health Issues (Presentation Handout)

•   Recognizing and Supervising Juveniles with Mental Health Issues (Presentation)

Suicide Prevention and Intervention

(No longer effective after December 19, 2024.)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Handout)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Lesson Plan)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Participant Guide)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Presentation Handout)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Presentation)

Suicide Prevention and Intervention

(Effective on December 19, 2024.)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Handout)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Lesson Plan)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Participant Guide)

•   Suicide Prevention and Intervention (Presentation)

Texas Family Code and Related Law

•   Texas Family Code and Related Law (Lesson Plan)

•   Texas Family Code and Related Law (Participant Guide)

•   Texas Family Code and Related Law (Presentation Handout)

•   Texas Family Code and Related Law (Presentation)

The Role of a Juvenile Probation Officer

•   The Role of a Juvenile Probation Officer (Lesson Plan)

•   The Role of a Juvenile Probation Officer (Participant Guide)

•   The Role of a Juvenile Probation Officer (Presentation Handout)

•   The Role of a Juvenile Probation Officer (Presentation)

Trauma Informed Care

•   Trauma Informed Care (Lesson Plan)

•   Trauma Informed Care (Participant Guide)

•   Trauma Informed Care (Presentation Handout)

•   Trauma Informed Care (Presentation)

Understanding Professional Liability

•   Understanding Professional Liability (Lesson Plan)

•   Understanding Professional Liability (Participant Guide)

•   Understanding Professional Liability (Presentation Handout)

•   Understanding Professional Liability (Presentation)

•   Understanding Professional Liability (Statement Cards)

TJJD Employee and Staff Training Modules

•   Level II Hearings, Participant Guide

Financial Services

Office of the General Counsel

Title IV-E Training Curriculum

•   Title IV-E Basic Eligibility Reference Handout 1

•   Title IV-E Basic Eligibility Reference Handout 2

•   Title IV-E Basic Eligibility Reference Handout 3

•   Title IV-E Basic Eligibility Training Presentation Handout

Sponsored Training

•   SEED Virtual Event 2023 - Speakers

Training Coordinators’ Summit

•   Training Coordinators' Summit - Agenda

Webinars

2025

•   Speaker Bio for K. Melton

2024

•   Fraternization: Creating a Training Program

•   ICJ: Supervision and Extradition for Probation Departments, Handout

•   Let's Talk TAC 344, Presentation

•   New TAC Rule 341.304 – Requirement to Apply for Diversion, Handout

•   PSB Overview & Safety Planning and PSB Resources, Handout

•   Sunset Updates: Everything You Need to Know, Handout

•   Working with Child Victims, Handout

•   Workshop Information and Speaker Biography Packet

2023

•   Back to Basics Training for Regional Diversion Alternatives (RDA)

•   Bios for DSA Grant Application Webinar

•   Combined Forms for Committed Youth in Detention, November 2023

•   Employee Onboarding - A Guide for Managers and Supervisors

•   Juvenile Justice 101

•   Losing Your Focus

•   Nuts and Bolts Day 2 Handout

•   Retention & Recruitment Efforts

•   Riley Shaw Juvenile Law Update 2023, Day 1 Handout

•   TJJD Admissions Process and MLOS Adjustment

•   Windows to the Soul - Handout

2022

•   Considerations in Working with AAPI Populations

•   Day in the Life of TJJD Youth

•   Determinate Offenders vs Indeterminate Offenders

•   DSA Grantee Procedures

•   Effectively Engaging Teen Fathers (Handout)

•   Grants Portal Overview

•   Intake_and_Treatment_Programs_for_Chiefs

•   Intake, Orientation and Assessment

•   JJAEP Business

•   Kids At Hope: Introduction and Panel Discussion

•   Maintaining the Limits to Cross-Gender Supervision Handout

•   MLOS_Project

•   MOU July 13, 2022

•   Parole/Halfway House/Contract Care

•   Priorities in Action: Workplace Wellness

•   Release Review Panel

•   Special Education and 504 Updates

•   Suicide Prevention Addendum: Girl Interrupted (Handout)

•   TAC Chapters 341 and 344 Revisions (Handout)

•   The Kids Aren't All Right (Handout)

•   Treating Sexual Behavior Problems: Treatment Concepts and Interventions within TJJD's Secure Settings

•   Ways to Bolster Resilience (Handout)

2021

•   A Flawless Diamond: 10 Strategies for Secure Facility Management (Handout)

•   Child Poverty, Trauma and Juvenile Justice (Handout)

•   Clinical Issues in Juvenile Fitness and Responsibility Evaluations (Handout)

•   Courageous Connections Webinar Handout

•   Forensic Nursing (Handout)

•   Human Trafficking Training Course (Handout)

•   Incident Report Writing Participant Guide

•   JJAEP Business 2021

•   JJAEP Second Session Presentation

•   Living Intentionally with Poverty (Handout)

•   Looking for the "Why" in the Behavior

•   Officer Discipline 101

•   Sex Offender Registration Training

•   Special Needs Diversionary Program Outcomes

•   SPED, 504, ESL Updates

•   Texas Model Topic 1: The Most Important Factor In Successful Caregiving

•   Texas Model Topic 10: The Power of Connection

•   Texas Model Topic 11: The Power of Connection

•   Texas Model Topic 2: Regulation Strategies in Juvenile Justice Facilities

•   Texas Model Topic 3: The Power of Connection: Guiding and Empowering Safety (Presentation)

•   Texas Model Topic 4: Research and the Importance of Connection

•   Texas Model Topic 5: Compassionate Design (Handout)

•   Texas Model Topic 6: Shaping Refresher (Presentation)

•   Texas Model Topic 8: Mindfully Aware of Myself

•   Texas Model Topic 9: MAPS - Making a Plan for Success

•   Textbooks and Supplemental Materials

•   Using Experiential Activities in a Secure Setting

2020

•   Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire

•   Become a Compass Leader Handout

•   Become a Supervision Pro (Presentation)

•   Compass Leader Part 2 Handout

•   Fostering Resilience and Growth Mindset

•   From Kent and Gault (Presentation)

•   Human Trafficking 101 and Common Thread Handout

•   JJAEP Conference 2020: Communicating Through a Trauma Informed Lens (Handout)

•   JJAEP Conference 2020: JJAEP Business, Part 1

•   JJAEP Conference 2020: JJAEP Business, Part 2

•   JJAEP Conference 2020: Special Education, 504, and ESL Updates (Handout)

•   JJAEP Conference 2020: Tips and Tricks for Effective Communication Handout

•   Part 1: Setting Up an Online IOWA Testing Event for JJAEPs

•   Part 2: How to Proctor the Online IOWA Tests

•   Posting and Boasting (Handout)

•   Rapport Building Series: Social Connectivity Handout

2019

•   Addiction Webinar Series presented by Prairie View A&M Understanding the Science of Addiction (Handout)

•   Addiction: How Attitudes and Beliefs Drive Behavior (Handout)

•   Baker's Dozen Webinar Series: PDs and CRCGs (Handout)

•   Software Proficiency Webinar Series (Handout)

•   Software Proficiency Webinar Series: Excel Intro (Handout)

•   Software Proficiency Webinar Series: Word Advanced (Handout)

•   Software Proficiency Webinar Series: Word Intro (Handout)

2018

•   JSOs, the Unsung Heroes of Juvenile Justice (Handout)

•   Priorities in Action: Workplace Wellness (Handout)

•   Professionalism and Tact (Handout)

2017

•   Defining a Program and What Works (Handout)

•   Defining Program Activities, Program Fidelity, and Program Outputs (Handout)

•   Defining Your Problem Statement, Goals and Outcomes (Handout)

•   Excel for Ad Hoc Reports (Handout)

•   Excel for Ad Hoc Reports (Presentation)

•   Millennial Myths

•   Process Evaluations for Programs (Handout)

•   Six Outcome Evaluations

•   Understanding Risk-Needs-Responsivity and Target Population (Handout)

2016

•   Basic Gang Class (Handout)

•   Cultural Diversity (Handout)

•   Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD Fact Sheet)

•   Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

•   Non-Suicidal Self Injurious Behavior & Suicide (Handout)

•   Non-Suicidal Self Injurious Behavior & Suicide (Speaker Bio)

•   Stop Banging Your Head

Describing Your Programs Using Logic Models

•   Logic Model Template Definitions

•   Program Descriptions Using Logic Models

•   Target Population Questions

2015

•   Gender-Responsive Services in Juvenile Justice (Handout)

•   Incident Report Writing (Handout)

•   Rapport: Making the Supervision Connection (Handout)

Funding Source Data Reporting

•   Funding Source Data Reporting (FAQ)

•   Funding Source Data Reporting (Handout)

•   Funding Source Data Reporting (Matrix)

•   Funding Source Data Reporting (Presentation)

Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs

•   JJAEP (Articles)

•   JJAEP (Handout)

•   JJAEP (Presentation)

•   JJAEP (TEA Timelines)

Special Ed Law 101

•   Special Ed Law (Case)

•   Special Ed Law (Handout)

•   Special Ed Law (MOU)

•   Special Ed Law (Presentation)

•   Special Ed Law (TEA Timelines)