OPEN offers technical assistance to correctional agencies by providing specialized on-site staff training and program consulting conducted by Ned Rollo. This service includes, but is not limited to, group presentations, workshops, training events, and review of current and proposed program activities. While on-site we also conduct lectures and training for offenders in conjunction with staff training activities.

We will work with you to create a technical assistance package or activity specific to your unique needs. For information on scheduling and cost, call 1-800-966-1966 or e-mail us at info@openinc.org.

Training covers a wide range of topics customized to fit the needs and interests of a host agency. For example:

·         Facilitating offender adaptation into and out of incarceration

·         Implementing effective reentry programming and other services

·         Expediting post-release success, short and long-term

·         Supporting social and vocational management of criminal history

·         Conducting post-release counseling and crisis intervention

To date we have trained correctional staff, professional educators, clients, community service personnel, and mental health and human service providers in 26 states. Agencies that have used our services include:

·         Maui Community Reintegration Committee

·         Florida Alcohol & Drug Abuse Association

·         Treatment Trends, Inc. (Allentown, PA)

·         California Department of Corrections

·         West Virginia Department of Education

·         Oklahoma Department of Corrections

·         Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction

·         Federal Bureau of Prisons

·         Henrico (VA) County Sheriffs Department

·         Indianapolis Correctional Aftercare Network

·         Massachusetts Halfway House, Inc.

·         Minnesota Department of Corrections

·         Correctional Education Association (CEA) (Dallas, TX)

·         The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (Alexandria, VA)

·         National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) (Washington DC)

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Ned Rollo, Executive Director, OPEN, INC.

Ned Rollo is a nationally recognized correctional training specialist, as well as an ex-offender and recovering addict, with 36 years direct experience in the corrections field. Initially, Ned served five and a half years in state and federal prisons for manslaughter, possession of drugs and firearms violations. It was in 1974, during his second term of incarceration, that he made the commitment to render service in the criminal justice field.

Since founding OPEN, INC. in Dallas, Texas, in 1979, he has counseled over 35,000 offenders and provided training for a wide array of correctional treatment personnel in 26 states. Ned is creator and principal author of the OPEN Information Series, a collection of self-help books that are respected nationwide for their uncompromising mix of honesty and practicality, with 360,000 publications in use in over 640 institutions and programs.

Mr. Rollo's main professional focus is the psycho-social adaptation of offenders from the time of conviction to five years following release.

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