Topics in Community Corrections: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders and Managers (Annual Issue 2005)

摘要

A pressing issue facing community corrections, and the corrections field as a whole, is the need to attract and retain new staff and help them develop into the managers and leaders of the future. As todays leaders and seasoned field staff retire or leave the profession for other reasons, we are seeing a gap develop. Baby boomers are leaving key positions, and the Generation Xers and Millenials are not fully prepared to assume leadership roles or have not stayed in the field long enough to advance. In 2004, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) embarked on a project to identify practices in recruitment, hiring, and retention of field staff and the development of first line supervisors to help community corrections address this challenge.