Training and capacity building for frontline justice staff

Directorate: Justice Strategy & Programs

Division: Strategy Policy & Commissioning

Project summary

To provide training that develops an increased understanding across the justice sector to enable staff to better identify and respond to the needs of people with a cognitive impairment.

Focus Area:

• Developing positive community attitudes and behaviours.

Project objective

Develop a schedule of training to be delivered to frontline justice agencies on identifying and responding to the needs of people with a cognitive impairment in contact with in the criminal justice system. Attachment ‘A’  is the ARTD Training Needs Analysis a pdf document accompanies this document.

The challenge

To provide an increased understanding across the justice sector to identify and respond to the needs of people with a cognitive impairment.

Why is this important?

Building on the skills of frontline staff to better identify and respond to the needs of people with a cognitive impairment can allow for improved engagement and outcomes for this cohort.

The proposed project aligns with the following outcome areas for the DIAP:

• Attitudes and behaviours (removing barriers by changing the way people interact with people with disability)
• Accessible systems and processes

What will success look like?

• Uptake of training across the sector.
• Improved understanding of cognitive impairment and disability across frontline staff in the justice sector particularly for police officers across the state.
• Development of embedded an training strategy for working with people with a cognitive impairment across the sector.

How will you measure success?

Evaluation of the delivery of training and capacity building content.

Status report

Current Status: Pending

Date: 13/10/2020

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