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Sedgwick County presents adult, juvenile comprehensive corrections plans; officials cite training gains but say KDOC success metric remains unmet
Summary
Department of Corrections staff briefed the commission on adult and juvenile comprehensive plan outcomes, describing new curricula, continuous quality‑improvement steps and juvenile program successes while noting KDOC success‑rate targets were not met for adult supervision.
Sedgwick County corrections officials presented their annual adult and juvenile comprehensive plan outcomes, telling the commission they have adopted new evidence‑based tools and internal coaching to improve supervision, but that the state’s 75 percent “successful completion” target has remained out of reach for adult community corrections.
Deputy director Laurie Gibbs summarized adult program work: staff developed a continuous quality improvement (CQI) team, improved interrater reliability on assessment tools, and replaced a longstanding curriculum with a new cognitive‑skills series called Courage for Change. Gibbs said the department also trained supervisors as adjunct coaches to shorten KDOC training timelines and has shifted performance goals to emphasize qualitative, behavior‑change work over box‑checking.
Gibbs said two primary adult goals are to target clients who score high on…
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