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Current Online Courses For Professionals

The Foundations of Peer Reentry Coaching

Cost: $95 Includes Training Manual, Posttest, Certificate, Slides, and Orientation Zoom Class

Course Description:

The National Reentry Coalition (NRC) Foundations of Peer Reentry Coaching Course prepares individuals—especially those with lived experience—to support justice-impacted individuals returning to their communities after incarceration. This foundational training introduces the core principles, practices, ethics, and professional standards of peer reentry coaching while emphasizing rehabilitation, recovery, reintegration, and long-term behavior change.

Participants will explore evidence-based approaches, including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral principles, strengths-based coaching, and the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model. The course also examines the impact of trauma, incarceration, stigma, addiction, mental health challenges, and systemic barriers commonly experienced during the reentry process.

Special attention is given to developing effective communication skills, professional boundaries, trauma-informed support strategies, systems navigation, advocacy, and practical approaches for helping individuals access housing, employment, treatment, recovery support, education, and other essential community resources. Participants will also learn strategies for promoting accountability, resilience, self-efficacy, and pro-social reintegration.

This course is designed for peer support specialists, recovery coaches, case managers, counselors, correctional professionals, community providers, students, advocates, and individuals passionate about supporting second chances and building safer, healthier communities.

  • By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define the roles, responsibilities, and ethical standards of a Peer Reentry Coach.

  • Explain the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process for justice-impacted individuals.

  • Demonstrate effective communication skills using motivational and person-centered approaches.

  • Apply strengths-based and trauma-informed principles in peer coaching relationships.

  • Identify common barriers to successful reentry, including housing, employment, substance use, and mental health challenges.

  • Describe the importance of professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical practice.

  • Utilize evidence-based coaching practices to support behavior change and recovery stability.

  • Assist individuals in navigating community resources, supervision requirements, and support systems.

  • Promote hope, accountability, and long-term reintegration through peer support and lived experience.

  • Develop self-awareness and self-care strategies to maintain professionalism and sustainability in peer coaching practice.

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Cognitive Behavioral Interventions With Justice Impacted Individuals: Cost $149 Includes Slides, Training Manual, Posttest, Certificate, and Orientation Zoom Class

  • Course Description

  • The Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Justice-Impacted Individuals Course provides participants with a practical understanding of how cognitive behavioral approaches can be used to address the underlying thinking patterns, emotional responses, and behavioral cycles often associated with criminal behavior, trauma, addiction, and long-term justice system involvement. This course explores how survival-based thinking, distorted beliefs, impulsive decision-making, antisocial attitudes, and unresolved trauma can influence behavior both during incarceration and throughout the reentry process.

  • Participants will learn evidence-based cognitive behavioral intervention strategies designed to help justice-impacted individuals develop greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, accountability, problem-solving skills, and healthier decision-making patterns. The course also examines the role of trauma-informed care, rehabilitation, peer support, motivation, and therapeutic communication in promoting long-term behavioral change and successful community reintegration.

  • Designed for counselors, peer support specialists, correctional professionals, case managers, social workers, educators, recovery professionals, and community-based providers, this training combines practical tools, real-world applications, and reentry-focused strategies that can be immediately implemented in both institutional and community settings. Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of how cognitive behavioral interventions can support rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and help build safer and healthier communities.

  • By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

  • Identify criminogenic and risky thinking patterns linked to harmful behaviors.

  • Apply basic Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention (CBI) strategies in reentry and rehabilitation settings.

  • Recognize triggers, high-risk situations, and impulsive decision-making patterns.

  • Demonstrate effective communication, active listening, and conflict resolution skills.

  • Apply emotional regulation and anger management techniques.

  • Use structured problem-solving and decision-making strategies.

  • Support individuals in developing healthier coping skills and positive behavior changes.

  • Assist justice-impacted individuals in building positive support systems and reentry plans.

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