Welcome Rose

Welcome Rose
Certification Status
Certified
Lake Mills, WI
Certification Date
Last Recertified On
Certification Type
Adult facilities
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Welcome Rose is a Program Director with the National PREA Resource Center (PRC), joining the PRC team in 2017 with over two decades of experience in adult correctional settings. Welcome holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, with emphases in Corrections and Law Enforcement.

As a PRC staff member, she manages the auditor certification profile, including the PRC's auditor training and field training programs. Welcome earned her PREA Auditor certification for adult facilities in 2015 and engaged in auditor learning opportunities, including participation in Field Training, Peer Review Pilot, and Technical Assistance Provider programs.

Prior to joining the PRC, Welcome worked as an inmate appeal examiner, reviewing corrections climate issues among adult populations for a state corrections agency. She investigated appeals on inmate grievances and made recommendations for a final decision to agency leadership, focusing on liability protection and mitigation. She also served as a PREA investigator for the agency. Before working in the inmate grievance system, she worked as a probation and parole agent and a correctional officer. She is experienced in raising accountability through rule development and staff training, and she promotes sexual safety as a mechanism for fostering safe and secure correctional facilities.