BJA Training Academy

Resources

Background

The Moss Group (TMG) is committed to supporting the development of essential skills and knowledge needed to reflect the unique and demanding challenges of training today’s corrections workforce. Through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) initiative, Improving Institutional Corrections Academy Training, TMG conducted a national scan consisting of on-site observations, surveys, and curriculum evaluations. TMG examined training academies’ focus, content, and quality and developed guidance for building and supporting correctional staff to increase public safety by improving outcomes across the corrections community.

This page provides the resources developed from this initiative to inform and enhance knowledge within correctional training.

Quick Downloads

  • Guiding Principles

    The guiding principles provide a framework for best practices in the field to ensure staff receive the highest caliber training available. Similar to other Department of Justice projects, this body of work results in a tool to organize priorities for a contemporary correctional training academy.
  • Guiding Principles - Agency Assessment

    The guiding principles provide a framework for best practices in the field to ensure staff receive the highest caliber training available. Similar to other Department of Justice projects, this body of work results in a tool to organize priorities for a contemporary correctional training academy.
  • Guiding Principles - Quick Glance

    The guiding principles provide a framework for best practices in the field to ensure staff receive the highest caliber training available. Similar to other Department of Justice projects, this body of work results in a tool to organize priorities for a contemporary correctional training academy.
  • First Line Supervisor training – coming soon!

    The two-and-one-half-day First Line Supervisor training is designed to support custody and non-custody correctional professionals promoted to supervisor positions within the last year and in adult institutions.
  • Training Matrix Development tool

    Survey responses supported observations that varying skill sets at the training director level and states varied in their ability to organize and offer impactful training courses. The balance of hard and soft skills was not prevalent in all academies. This tool is intended to aid training directors and instructors in organizing priorities and to assess the offerings needed for all correctional staff more critically.

Guide to Deliverables

  • National Scan
  • First Line Supervisor Training
  • Surveys
  • Outcomes-based Training Evaluation
  • Adult Learning
  • Additional Guidance
  • Guiding Principles
  • E-courses

This project was supported by Grant No. 2019-RY-BX-K002, awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.