You don’t want to miss this opportunity….
Motivational Interviewing Training for Criminal Justice Professionals
A Highly Effective Conversation Framework that Builds Trust, Fosters Change, and Reduces Recidivism in Mandated Cases
Transform your team into top-tier criminal justice professionals. Give them effective, evidence-based conversation skills to build trust, foster change, and reduce recidivism in mandated cases.
On-Demand
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training
for Criminal Justice Professionals
See How A Purpose 4 Life Can Support Your Entire Criminal Justice Team
Empower your team with our Motivational Interviewing (MI) training, proven to build trust, foster change, and reduce recidivism. Already trusted by criminal justice departments, probation offices, and other key criminal justice organizations, our training programs are convenient and affordable.
Why Choose Our Training?
Five-star rated by participants for practicality, relatability, and immediate effectiveness
Cost-effective at $199 per team member, including 10 continuing education credits
Continuing Education Credits: Our foundational MI training includes CEs through NYCB for Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC) electives and all CE for Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) and New York State Office of Additional Services and Supports (OASAS) for Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselors (CASAC), Credentialed Prevention Professionals (CPP), and Credentialed Prevention Specialists (CPS).
Simplify your training demands with our expert-led Motivational Interviewing (MI) programs specifically designed for criminal justice settings.
Custom Branded Training: Integrate our training seamlessly into your workforce development by branding it with your organization’s name and logo, providing professional development tailored to the unique needs of criminal justice professionals.
Progress Updates & Metrics: Monitor your staff’s progress and identify who needs extra support and when. Receive detailed pre and post-test scores directly to measure the effectiveness of the training in real time.
Interdisciplinary Approach from Expert Educators: Your staff will access self-paced, on-demand training crafted by adult education authorities and MINT trainers with extensive experience in mental health, substance use disorder, criminal justice, and beyond.
Build Confidence & Competence in MI: Equip your team with demonstrations, exercises, slide decks, handouts, learning guides, and quizzes, helping them seamlessly integrate new skills with their existing knowledge and experiences.
Reduce Employee Burnout & Churn: Provide your employees with practical, evidence-based conversation skills designed to decrease burnout, empathy fatigue, and turnover, leading to enhanced job satisfaction and resilience.
Ease & Consistency: Standardize your department’s approach to ensure uniform, evidence-based care throughout your organization.
MI Training for Criminal Justice is for Organizations that Need To…
Onboard new staff with fidelity to MI for a consistent agency culture
Increase client engagement and retention, even with mandated individuals
Enhance internal communication for better supervisor and staff relationships
Decrease employee burnout, empathy fatigue, and turnover
Give employees practical, evidence-based conversation skills that lead to long-term satisfaction and resilience
It’s time you have a resilient, unified team highly skilled in creating the lasting change your clients need.
Course Curriculum
What You’ll Learn and Be Able to Do
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Introduction VideoMotivational Interviewing in Criminal Justice - Working with Mandated Individuals
Motivational Interviewing and Criminal Justice
Meet The Instructors: Sandy
Meet The Instructors: Lisa
Meet The Instructors: David
Learner's Guide
Download the Full Learner's Guide
Why MI for Probation and Parole
Why MI in Corrections, DV and Mental Health
Why MI with Youth, Sex Related Crimes and SUD
Outcomes and Benefits of MI in Criminal Justice
David and Roosevelt's introduction video
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The Dual Role of the Criminal Justice Professional (CJP)
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Spirit of MI
The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
PACE
PACE: Partnership
PACE: Acceptance
PACE: Compassion
Video - Brene Brown on Empathy
PACE: Empowerment
VALUES
Spirit of MI Learners Guide Exercises
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
Radical Acceptance Examples and Exercise
Radical Acceptance Examples and Exercise 2
Spirit of MI Learners Guide Exercise
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Four Tasks Instructional Audio
The Flow of MI
ENGAGING
Top Tips for Engagement in Criminal Justice
FOCUSING
EVOKING
Evoking Growth and Change
PLANNING
In Summary
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OARS Instructional Video
MI CORE SKILLS
Open Ended Questions
Affirmations
Reflections
Reflections Examples - part 1
Reflections Examples - part 2
Reflections Examples - part 3
Summary
Readiness Ruler
OARS Learner Guide Exercises
Video Score Sheet
OARS Video
OARS Understanding Assessment
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AMBIVALENCE VIDEO
Working to Resolve Ambivalence in Criminal Justice
Thomas Gordon Roadblocks to Listening Exercise
Skills for Resolving Ambivalence
Swinging the Pendulum - What to do when there is no ambivalence?
Swinging the Pendulum Strengths
Peers to Improve Engagement and Minimize Ambivalence
Criminal Justice Peer Ethical Standard
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SKILLFUL INFORMATION / ADVICE GIVING – ASK, OFFER, ASK: Giving Advice
SKILLFUL INFORMATION / ADVICE GIVING: Ask - Offer - Ask
SKILLFUL INFORMATION / ADVICE GIVING: Ask - Offer - Ask Exercise
FIXING REFLEX - RESISTING THE FIXING REFLEX
FIXING REFLEX - Previously the Righting Reflex
FIXING REFLEX - Previously the Righting Reflex
The Fixing Reflex in Motivational Interviewing
SUPPORTING AUTONOMY
Strategic Responses to Support Autonomy
Nuts and Bolts Learners Guide Exercises
The Nuts And Bolts Quizscription
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DARN-CAT Instructional Video
CHANGE TALK
SEVEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGE TALK
SEVEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGE TALK, cont.
SKILLFUL WAYS OF EVOKING CHANGE TALK
RESPONDING TO SUSTAIN TALK
RESPONDING TO DISCORD
Discord Exercise and Roadblocks
DARN-CAT Learners Guide Exercises
Evoking Growth and Change in MI
Swinging the Pendulum Scenario - Change Talk
Change Talk Quiz
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Principles for Difficult Conversations
Principles of Difficult Conversation 2
Video Score Sheet
Difficult Conversations Video Example
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Final Quiz
Evidence Based Research of MI with Mandated Individuals
Next Steps in Professional Development -Implementation
Closing
Motivational Interviewing Training for Criminal Justice
Build Trust. Foster Change. Reduce Recidivism.
In Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training for Criminal Justice Professionals, learn an evidence-based conversation style proven to help overcome the common motivation problems you face with mandated clients.
With over 40 years of research and 1,800 clinical trials, studies show MI gets better results and outcomes than the standard alternatives—even with mandated clients.
Discover the collaborative communication technique proven to motivate the intrinsic, lasting change your clients deserve— and that your communities need to be safer.
This self-paced, online MI training will teach you the most up-to-date foundational approaches to facilitating change and helping you feel more confident and effective.
Inside, get the practical conversation skills to transform client
discord into collaboration,
ambivalence into motivation, and
blaming into empowerment.
Explore the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (partnership, acceptance, compassion, empowerment) and OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries). Learn to blend this MI training with trauma-informed care, a person-centered lens, and strength-based engagement.
Available 24/7, this on-demand course includes expertly designed lessons, demonstrations, and exercises led by skilled members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with lived MI experience in numerous fields, including mental health, substance use disorder, and especially criminal justice.
It also includes learning guides and quizzes to build confidence and competence in MI.
*This MI Training is based on the latest edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow and addresses the application of MI across fields, including healthcare, education, mental health, social services, criminal justice, restorative justice, and anywhere conversations of change take place.
Course Goals
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Use MI as an effective, evidence-based communication style to foster supportive relationships with mandated individuals.
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Integrate the Spirit, Four Tasks, and Skills of MI into a person-centered approach to your work with others.
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Discover the MI conversation skills that inspire positive attitudes about change and growth, especially around criminal and risky behavior.
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Explore ways to identify ambivalence and help clients find their motivations for change to reduce their risk of rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration.
Who Should Take This Training?
This course is right for criminal justice professionals and their community partners who want to...
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Get current on the newest MI model and research, including crucial person-centered language and critical perspective shifts.
Feel confident and effective in fostering conditions for change
Improve listening and conversation skills to strengthen trust, rapport, engagement, and client compliance
Improve engagement and success in mandated programs
Reduce recidivism and create safer communities
Move from a punitive to a rehabilitative style
Recharge their careers and look forward to going to work
Integrate the spirit of MI with trauma-informed care
Refresh their MI skills with the most current model and research
Discover the Difference
Motivational Interviewing Makes.
Build immediate rapport. Get better compliance. Create the conditions for meaningful, life-long change.
What Makes this MI Training Different?
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What Continuing Education Credits are Available?
Earn 10 Continuing Education units through New York State for:
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pending approval with New York Certification Board at InUnity Alliance. Course is approved for 10 hours of CARC Elective and all Continuing Education CRPA hours, CJSR CEs
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pending approval New York Certification Board at InUnity Alliance. Course is approved for 10 hours of CARC Elective and all Continuing Education CRPA hours, CJSR CEs
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Convenient, On-Demand MI Training
for All Criminal Justice Professionals
Probation Officers
Lawyers
Correction Officers
Peer Professionals
Prison Wardens
Judges
Caseworkers
Mental Health Professionals
Supervisors
Community Partners
SUD Professionals
FAQs
How do I use this training?
You’ll gain instant access to your course and a free learning guide when you enroll. You’ll begin with a brief introduction. Then, view each lesson and complete the related exercises to build confidence and improve your competence in MI.
Do I need to be online at specific times?
Great news! No. This training is an asynchronous, self-paced course you complete at times convenient for you.
What accommodation does this course have?
Inside the course, you’ll find a variety of accommodations, including video lessons with transcripts, hands-on exercises, skills demonstrations, learning guides, and quizzes. We are committed to accessibility for all students. Contact lisa@apurpose4life.com to request additional accommodations.
What’s the enrollment fee?
The cost for Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training for Criminal Justice Professionals is provided to you at no cost by your agency.
For individuals taking this course outside of their organization, the investment is $199.
How do I earn CEs for this course?
Ten Continuing Education Hours are available for those with New York State Credentials in:
CASAC
CPP
CPS
CRPA
CARC
Social Workers
To receive the CE credits, you must complete each part of the training, click on each handout, answer the quiz questions correctly, and complete the course evaluation. If you do not answer the questions correctly, review the materials and re-take the quizzes. A CE certificate will be emailed once you complete the requirements.
How long will I have access to the course?
You’ll have one year of access to the content so you can pace your learning. We recommend completing it as soon as possible so you can start fostering change-making conversations in your work with others. You have an entire year to return to the content to reinforce your understanding, clarify your questions, and refine your skills.
Where do I start?
Click on any of the buttons to get started. You’ll then be directed to create an account to finish enrollment using the security and ease of Thinkific. Then, check your inbox for instant access to your self-paced, on-demand course and free learning guide.
How do I private label this training for my organization and staff?
We can’t wait to customize this training to meet the specific needs of your staff! From training hundreds of staff members and volunteers, we know Motivational Interviewing will improve their job satisfaction, reduce employee turnover, and improve your organizational outcomes with clients. Get started today.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity….
Motivational Interviewing Training for Criminal Justice Professionals
A Highly Effective Conversation Framework that Builds Trust, Fosters Change, and Reduces Recidivism in Mandated Cases
Meet Your Instructors
National Leaders in Substance Use Disorder and Criminal Justice
Lisa M. Ardner,
MA, Master CASAC, CARC
Certified MINT Trainer
Member of MINT
Sandy Rivers,
MA, Master CASAC
Member of MINT
David Varalli, BS
Retired Sr. Federal Probation Officer, Member of MINT
Our Guarantee to You
Register for this foundation course at no risk. Your satisfaction and confidence is our goal and guarantee. If you complete the course, implement its evidence-based skills, and don’t see the results you’d expect, contact us.
