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Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved correctional services”.
The development of probation services, changes in the legislative framework, society and the sociodemographic profile of offenders poses the challenge to continuous improvement for probation officers. This includes improving training systems and concepts, evaluating existing diagnostic tools and the effectiveness of individual and group programs to ensure quality in their implementation.
The project aims at strengthening the implementation of alternative measures to deprivation of liberty by enhancement of probation officers’ qualifications updating diagnostic tool for assessing of probationers and introduction of new correctional programmes and interinstitutional cooperation.
The project shall include, inter alia, the following activities:
- Development of a concept and new curriculum for initial and further training for probation officers to enhance their professional competences;
- Reviewing and updating the assessment tool of offenders;
- Study on the possibility to introduce new alternative measures to imprisonment;
- Introduction of best practices and models of interinstitutional cooperation.