Best Practices in Fidelity Monitoring for Programs Offered to Justice-Involved Individuals

The objectives of this course will ensure that you understand more about best practices in fidelity monitoring, that you feel able to craft a plan to conduct fidelity monitoring of evidence-based practices, and that you can describe how programs can be improved with the use of fidelity monitoring.

The first lesson will talk about how we select sessions for observation when we're doing fidelity monitoring.

As we move to the next lesson, we will describe options for observing programs or interventions to conduct fidelity monitoring.

Lesson 3 will specify best practices in data collection and consider the strengths and weaknesses of each option.

In lesson 4, we will share strategies you can use to ensure consistency and quality across fidelity monitors. A critical aspect of fidelity monitoring is providing feedback to interventionists and to other stakeholders of the program or intervention.

In Lessons 5 and 6, we will explain how and why feedback is provided.

In Lesson 7, we will start to apply some of these skills and discuss how to match setting to method. We will finish this course with a posttest and provide resources and a bibliography.

This course is designed to benefit researchers who are interested in conducting experimental and clinical trials of interventions and criminal justice professionals and healthcare professionals who are interested in implementing evidence driven interventions in criminal justice and correctional settings. This series can also benefit healthcare professionals and para-professionals who work with people that have histories of criminal justice system involvement.

This course is sponsored by the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

We also gratefully acknowledge the following people or organizations for contributions and support: the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University, Slonky, LLC, and IJRD team members Amberly Prykhodko, Jennifer Joseph, Shelby Pederson, and Elizabeth Curley for helping to develop the series.

A special thanks to Faye Taxman and Amy Murphy on providing their guidance and input.

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