Psychosocial Interventions in the Context of Incarceration and Reentry
Started Jun 3, 2021
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Full course description
Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 | 6-8:30 pm (EST)-- Fully Online Workshop
This workshop introduces knowledge and capacities for imagining or implementing interventions in the context of incarceration.
Registration and Scholarships:
Full scholarships are available for students, educators, corrections professionals, social workers, therapists, mental health professionals, those from non-profit or community-based organizations, and anyone working in prisons or communities impacted by incarceration. If you are in one of these categories, use code INTERVENTIONS21 to register at no cost. Contact delsesma@bc.edu with any questions.
Workshop Overview:
What are some of the individual and social challenges that people and communities impacted by incarceration face? What do effective and even transformative interventions look like in practice? And how can those in mental health professions, education, policy, and human services best address the personal and systemic contexts that contribute to high rates of incarceration? Through guided discussion and exercises during the workshop, plus a comprehensive supplemental resource list, participants will explore the role of and needs for educational and psychosocial interventions in the context of incarceration. Neal Chadhuri and David Clark from Boston Healthcare for the Homeless will join the conversation to share about their work with people who are being released from incarceration. Overall, the workshop focuses on introducing the knowledge and capacities necessary for imagining or implementing interventions.
Workshop Coordinators:
Matthew DelSesto is Coordinator and Instructor of the Initiative for Community Justice & Engaged Pedagogy and doctoral candidate in Sociology at Boston College. He has worked in prisons and jails for the last ten years, in educational, therapeutic, and vocational training programs. Matthew holds an MA in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design and an MA in Sociology from Boston College. He also studied horticultural therapy at The New York Botanical Garden and practiced horticultural therapy at the Horticultural Society of New York. His academic work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The Hearst Foundations, and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
David Sellers is a human services professional, musician and writer. One of six children, he was born in the small town of Beacon, New York, and he had his first encounter with the criminal justice system at the age of 15. Through decades of experience with police and prisons since then he has seen first-hand some of the systemic problems with the US criminal justice system. These experiences also sparked his life-long study of human development and psychology, which have led him to better understand his own behavior and others. David has also consulted as a legal researcher and advocate, and he was previously assistant director of the spiritual recovery programs, Strong Tower and Resurrection House. David aims to use his personal experiences with the criminal justice system to help others advance educational, psychosocial and humanistic interventions.