Webinars

This webinar offers a comprehensive overview of the Medical Forensic Exam (MFE) process in adult and juvenile correctional settings, emphasizing the roles, responsibilities, and promising practices for conducting a patient-centered, trauma-informed medical forensic exam. The session focuses on interpreting related PREA standards and exploring safety considerations that promote a culture of safety and dignity for both examiners and incarcerated individuals. The interactive format includes real-world examples, scenarios, and a Q&A session to engage and address participant questions.

This webinar demonstrates the OAS from the perspective of the PREA Coordinator and PREA Compliance Manager, including how to respond to standards-based questions in the PAQ, how to upload evidence and submit the PAQ, and tips and tricks on how to maximize efficacy and efficiency in the OAS.

This webinar demonstrates the OAS from the auditor’s perspective, including how to review responses and documentation provided by the agency/facility and generate an issue log; make and discuss overall compliance determinations; complete your post-audit reporting information; upload supporting documentation; and submit or generate your report, as well as tips and tricks on how to maximize efficacy and efficiency in the OAS.

During this webinar, we cover PREA Standard 115.81 Medical and mental health screenings; history of sexual abuse.  To require a facility to timely address any medical, mental health, or security needs concerning inmates who have experienced or perpetrated prior sexual abuse, either in a confinement setting or in the community. Identifying and offering treatment to inmates with prior victimization is intended to address immediate mental health needs. Identifying Identifying and offering a follow-up meeting with a mental health practitioner to prior abusers has the potential to reduce future incidents of sexual abuse and create an improved overall sense of safety within a facility.

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who are in custody often experience information and communication barriers that can threaten their safety. In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change provides an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discuss access considerations that can increase sexual safety for people with IDD in custody. She offers practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA-related prevention and response functions more accessible to people with IDD in custody, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.

Autistic people and people on the autism spectrum who are in custody often experience environmental, sensory, and communication barriers that can threaten their safety. In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change provides an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discusses access considerations that can increase sexual safety for autistic people in custody. She offers practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA-related prevention and response functions more accessible to autistic people in custody, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.

Join the PREA Resource Center to hear from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on how they used their federal PREA demonstration grant to revise and attempt to validate their PREA risk assessment. This presentation reviews the detailed data analysis that the project completed so agency researchers are encouraged to view and share. Presenters also shared lessons learned, including from the pilot assessments where it was determined that there was a mismatch between the questions asked and people’s responses. This is a technical presentation, but one that gives agencies a head start on strengthening their PREA risk assessments.

During this webinar, we cover PREA Standard 115.86 Sexual Abuse Incident Reviews. The sexual abuse incident review, which is conducted at the conclusion of every substantiated and unsubstantiated sexual abuse investigation, is intended to evaluate whether any changes in policy or practice at the facility need to be made in light of the alleged incident. The incident review process is intended to allow the facility to identify systemic problems in policies, practices, dynamics, physical barriers, staffing levels, and monitoring that may have contributed to an incident or allegation of sexual abuse, so that the facility can improve conditions to avoid future incidents or allegations.

In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change will provide an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discuss people who are blind or have low vision and the barriers and risks they face inside. She will offer practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA information and reporting accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.

Are you wondering how the PREA Online Audit System (OAS) can work for you? Do you have a question specific to your agency or facility and the OAS? Are you curious about the future plans of the OAS? This general OAS Q&A session is an opportunity to ask any and all questions related to the PREA Online Audit System.