Responding to Staff Trauma and Organizational Stress in Prisons and Jail Settings 23PR11GLP2 National Institute of Corrections National Corrections Collaborative Project Taskforce (NCC-PT)

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Corrections are seeking resources to address corrections job stress and trauma through input from nurses and healthcare professionals working in corrections, education, mental, behavioral health, social services, case management, community corrections, probation and parole, spiritual services, and security to gather best practices and learn more about resources for trauma, critical incidents, and corrections work-related stress.

The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete, and your responses are appreciated by December 15th, 2024.  You will be asked about your facility's resources as well as some optional questions describing your age, gender, racial identity, years of work in corrections and highest educational degree earned. Please consider taking the voluntary survey to inform the work under this cooperative agreement with the NIC (23PR11GLP2) and the broader NIC training and educational resources on stress and trauma.

The new survey of corrections workplace stress and trauma resources is open for your input. Please share your experiences and ideas to improve corrections work for ALL involved in the correctional workplace by filling out this survey and sharing it with your corrections colleagues: https://bit.ly/NICsurvey2

See the findings from Phase 1 of the project on NIC’s website including a recorded webinar and brief report at https://bit.ly/NICresources  

If you have any questions about this research, please contact Mazen_ElGhaziri@uml.edu  

UMass Lowell Institutional Review Board reference IRB #21-148-ELG-EXM (9/12/2024).

Thank you.

Mazen El Ghaziri, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, UMass Lowell

Lisa Jaegers, PhD, OTR/L, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University