TABLE 3.

Summary of Programming Objectives From NCC Symposia

Themes	2014	2017	2019	Future Direction
TWH approaches for CO health and wellness	Challenges/barriers for health and safety interventions in corrections	Adaptation of the Total Worker Health® approach to corrections	Intersections of workplace health/TWH with restorative justice and reentry programming	TWH and future of work
Participatory approach Labor-management partnership	Promote participatory action research in corrections	Labor-management joint problem solving	Substance use and workforce-led interventions, continue labor-management joint approaches	Capitalizing on union driven and CO led initiatives
Best practices and programmatic approaches	Organizational culture as a challenge to change	Programs designed for the long-term	Customized health care and wellness resources, employee screening, morale survey, staff support, mindfulness training, communication skills, and engaging staff in a meaningful way with inmates	Facilitators and barriers and of best practices
Mental health Critical incidents Work-family	Mental health and suicide among COs: what programs exist and what works?	Interventions directed to critical incidents and posttraumatic stress, mental health, support CO family life and CO work-life balance	Identifying CO critical incidents and addressing mental health including posttraumatic stress	Stress related mental health approaches and interventions
Peer support and mentoring	Promote practices for health promotion/health protection in law enforcement and corrections	Peer-to-peer CO support programs	Peer mentoring toolkit	Peer mentoring evaluation for best practices
Employee assistance program	Assess impact of shift work on stress, sleep, injury, health, and disease	Assess using EAPs and other services for CO stress- related and other problems	Issues around using services such as Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) for CO stress- related and other problems, interventions to support CO family life and work-life balance	Innovations in EAP approaches
Research collaboration Funding priorities	Funding and collaboration for correctional workforce research	Interstate comparisons of correctional officer (CO) health	Growing the interstate network of CO health research	Practitioner-researcher collaborations and funding for CO safety and wellness initiatives and strategies
Criminal justice reform and CO health and wellness		Introducing the need to bridge CO health with criminal justice reform initiatives such as reentry programming	Furthering the conversation on CO health and reform with examples from international and national projects	Further exploration of best practices that emphasize the intersection between CO health and wellness and restorative justice

NCC, National Corrections Collaborative.