Tennessee

Technical Assistance:

Tennessee Sex Offender Treatment Board (August 2005): CSOM staff facilitated a strategic planning retreat for the team, assisted in developing a vision, mission, and goals, and developed a list of priority action items and a work plan.

Training:

Provided a training on juvenile sex offender management, covering supervision, collaboration, research on what works, and differences between juvenile and adult sex offenders for the NE Tennessee Community Services (FY04 OJP Grant Site) to a multi-disciplinary audience in November 2006 (200 participants).

Convened a training session on the etiology of sex offending; the impact of sexual abuse on victims; and general supervision, treatment, assessment, and collaboration issues to a local audience in Madison County, Tennessee, December 2001 (55 participants).

Provided a consultant to provide a training at the request of the Tennessee Sex Offender Treatment Board to a multidisciplinary audience, December 2000 (75 participants).

OJP Grant Sites:

2004: The First Tennessee Human Resource Agency, in partnership with Counseling and Consultation Services, Inc. (CCS), seeks to develop new services to juvenile sex offenders that would expand the continuum of services currently available in Northeast, Tennessee. Northeast, TN is comprised of eight counties, four of which are extremely rural and characterized by communities isolated by mountainous terrain. The total population of Northeast, TN is 475,412 and contains the 1st, 2nd and 3rd judicial districts of Tennessee. The Northeast, TN grant project will conduct a comprehensive assessment of services available to juvenile sex offenders and identify gaps in those services. Grant funds will be used to enhance the available continuum of services for these youth by targeting the identified gaps in those services. Additionally, through this grant project collaborative networks will be built among key stakeholders in the region in order to develop a cohesive system for managing juvenile sex offenders. It is anticipated that needs in the existing system will include developing a risk assessment process, providing all needed services to youthful offenders close to home, developing community support for additional regional residential and day treatment services for juvenile offenders, and integrating youthful offender safely back into the community. Furthermore, the grant team will develop a system for collecting relevant data and evaluating the efficacy of implemented program components.