Experienced. Empathic. Engaging.
Prison Hospice & Aging Reform In A Way You’ve Never Heard It.
Dr. Novak is one of the world’s most sought after speakers on prison hospice reform and aging issues. Her approach combines her extensive academic studies and research, real world executive level work in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, and a strong combination of fiscal practicality and empathy.
PRISON HOSPICE TOPICS
Keynote Speech:
Compassionate Care vs. Financial Responsibility: S.M.A.R.T. Prison Hospice
With fiscal responsibility and compassionate care for aging prison inmates as the focus, SMART Prison Reform offers solutions that advocate for change, reduce tax burden to the public, make prisons safer for staff and inmates, and restore dignity at death.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to make their facility "age" friendly for aging inmates
- How to create and train for prison hospice units to create a safer, more cost-effective environment for staff and inmates
- How to fix operational solutions to problems facing prison administration with aging and ill inmates to provide consistency across the prison system to ultimately save money.
ADDITIONAL PRISON HOSPICE TOPICS
Utilization of Trauma Informed Care in Prison Hospice
Trauma permanently changes people and introduces a new path to life. Trauma and grief often go hand in hand; therefore, learning to process grief can help those struggling with trauma. Gain an in-depth look at recognizing work, and every day related adversities that can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and grief work to increase functioning in the prison system.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to gain an understanding of the different stages of grief and the impact on self and others.
- How to bring awareness of the physiological effects of secondary trauma and the mitigating impact on every-day life in prison.
- How to recognize work-related adversities that can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress.
"Aging Prison Inmates Matter” or “Dying and Incarcerated: The Hospice Experience
The increase of individuals living their natural lives behind bars has begun to have a significant impact on the U.S. penal system. Inmates are not only aging in place in the penal system, but they are also dying within the walls of the facility. Compassionate Care Behind Bars provides end-of-life programs or hospice and palliative care inside the prison facility that will benefit the overall prison system and bring fiscal responsibility to society.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to gain an awareness and education of solution-focused and community-based elderly care in the prison system
- How to mitigate transitional issues and gain an understanding of strategies to empower aging adults
- How to gain an understanding of diversity and individual differences among aging prison inmates and prison staff to empower those facing death
Aging in Prison: What do we do now?
Aging inmates are the most expensive to incarcerate and cost taxpayers an estimate $68,270 per inmate, twice the cost of an average prisoner, according to the ACLU’s report The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly. The ethical implications of caring for aging prison inmates and how society can play a role in changing the landscape for prison facilities and caregivers.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to change prison reform policy to include the aging prison population
- How prison population serving life sentences has steadily grown and gain an understanding of the fiscal implication on care
- How to create a program that focuses on the reentry process, either on parole or compassionate release and the need to rebuild the outside community.
ELDERLY CARE & AGING TOPICS
Keynote Speech:
Compassionate Care vs. Financial Responsibility: S.M.A.R.T. Prison Hospice
With fiscal responsibility and compassionate care for aging prison inmates as the focus, SMART Prison Reform offers solutions that advocate for change, reduce tax burden to the public, make prisons safer for staff and inmates, and restore dignity at death.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to make their facility "age" friendly for aging inmates
- How to create and train for prison hospice units to create a safer, more cost-effective environment for staff and inmates
- How to fix operational solutions to problems facing prison administration with aging and ill inmates to provide consistency across the prison system to ultimately save money.
ADDITIONAL ELDERLY CARE & AGING TOPICS
Utilization of Trauma Informed Care in Prison Hospice
Trauma permanently changes people and introduces a new path to life. Trauma and grief often go hand in hand; therefore, learning to process grief can help those struggling with trauma. Gain an in-depth look at recognizing work, and every day related adversities that can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and grief work to increase functioning in the prison system.
Utilization of Trauma Informed Care in Prison Hospice
Trauma permanently changes people and introduces a new path to life. Trauma and grief often go hand in hand; therefore, learning to process grief can help those struggling with trauma. Gain an in-depth look at recognizing work, and every day related adversities that can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and grief work to increase functioning in the prison system.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to gain an understanding of the different stages of grief and the impact on self and others.
- How to bring awareness of the physiological effects of secondary trauma and the mitigating impact on every-day life in prison.
- How to recognize work-related adversities that can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress.
"Aging Prison Inmates Matter” or “Dying and Incarcerated: The Hospice Experience
The increase of individuals living their natural lives behind bars has begun to have a significant impact on the U.S. penal system. Inmates are not only aging in place in the penal system, but they are also dying within the walls of the facility. Compassionate Care Behind Bars provides end-of-life programs or hospice and palliative care inside the prison facility that will benefit the overall prison system and bring fiscal responsibility to society.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to gain an awareness and education of solution-focused and community-based elderly care in the prison system
- How to mitigate transitional issues and gain an understanding of strategies to empower aging adults
- How to gain an understanding of diversity and individual differences among aging prison inmates and prison staff to empower those facing death
Aging in Prison: What do we do now?
Aging inmates are the most expensive to incarcerate and cost taxpayers an estimate $68,270 per inmate, twice the cost of an average prisoner, according to the ACLU’s report The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly. The ethical implications of caring for aging prison inmates and how society can play a role in changing the landscape for prison facilities and caregivers.
Aging in Prison: What do we do now?
Aging inmates are the most expensive to incarcerate and cost taxpayers an estimate $68,270 per inmate, twice the cost of an average prisoner, according to the ACLU’s report The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly. The ethical implications of caring for aging prison inmates and how society can play a role in changing the landscape for prison facilities and caregivers.
The Audience Will Learn:
- How to change prison reform policy to include the aging prison population
- How prison population serving life sentences has steadily grown and gain an understanding of the fiscal implication on care
- How to create a program that focuses on the reentry process, either on parole or compassionate release and the need to rebuild the outside community.
Dr. Novak is available to speak globally. If one of the topics above doesn’t meet your organization’s specific needs, Dr. Novak will work with you and your team to create a customized presentation.