Therapeutic Justice Institute: The Details
Transformative Education | Training | Technical Assistance
Is your organization feeling challenged working with persons who suffer from Substance Use/Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders? Do you desire to change the way your organization supports and manages justice-involved persons? Let us help you. We are the professionals committed to the utilization of evidence-based practices, paradigm shift and pivot in the work with persons who suffer from addiction, co-occurring disorders and self-defeating behaviors. Our work involves assisting your organization in moving away from outdated, counterproductive models of treatment, surveillance and confinement to holistic, life-enhancing, pro-social treatment engagement models.
About TJI
TJI is an international training, consulting and technical assistance services organization. We provide innovative education, consultation and technical assistance to remove barriers in organizational transformation efforts within treatment programs, community services organizations, jails, prisons, and drug/problem-solving courts.
The explosive growth of persons appearing with mental illness as well as substance use disorder demand different engagement, response and retention strategies.
Our experience over the last 30 years involves many well-known transformation efforts that support wholistic services rendering that includes training teams on the use of the ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) criteria and Co-occurring treatment services model to address a burgeoning, aging mental health disordered population, the importance of Therapeutic Jurisprudence in drug and problem-solving courts, the implementation of the modified Therapeutic Community model in jails and prisons throughout North America, the development of behavior shaping programming to replace segregation placements in jails and prisons, the incorporation of Risk Need and Responsivity (RNR) assessment instruments to better determine the severity of issues and needs of justice-involved persons, and finally employing community corrections models that apply comprehensive case management services utilizing RNR assessment findings, recovery interventions and support, supportive housing, medical/mental health services and work readiness access.
We train substance use/mental health disorder professionals, Wardens and correctional staff, Judges and drug/problem solving court teams, probation/parole and police officers better respond to the needs and issues of those who suffer from SUD/Co-Occurring disorders by utilizing evidence-based practice methodologies that create better treatment outcomes, decreased recidivism rates, safer facilities and communities, and healthier families.
About Our CEO
At the forefront of many change efforts in corrections and in treatment services has been Dr. Kenneth L. Osborne.
Dr. Osborne is an author, consultant, and subject matter expert in addiction treatment/behavioral health and corrections administration. He has worked in these professional arenas for more than 30 years.
Dr. Osborne is well known as a "master trainer". His "down to earth”, “get to the heart of the matter” training approach is something his audiences enjoy. Dr. Osborne has presented on a variety of topics over the years that have included: the impact of a father's absence as an ACE’s issue in SUD treatment, Cultural Humility/Proficiency, Therapeutic Community: Design and Implementation, Cross Discipline Team Building (*for Treatment and Corrections) managing Drug court teams and the ASAM criteria to name a few. He has provided training and technical assistance to SAMHSA, CSAT, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance to state prisons throughout North America, the drug treatment court in Bermuda, the University of South Africa in Johannesburg, and private American schools in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taiwan, Belgium, Frankfurt, Doha Qatar, and Switzerland.
Among his professional accomplishments, Dr. Osborne possesses state, national, and international certifications in addiction counseling, is a graduate of the Certified Public Manager program from George Washington University, is a certified Trauma Resolution Specialist, and is recognized as one of America’s Premier Business Leaders and Professionals in Princeton Honors Registry for 2009-2010 and Marquis Who's who in America for 2021-2022.
Dr. Osborne possesses an Honorary Doctorate degree in Humanities and holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in chemical dependency counseling and serves as a subject matter expert on fatherhood and family reunification issues. He is the author of the 2013 Amazon bestselling book “When Mama is Daddy": Addressing the male crisis and challenge of Father Absence and the follow-up book "The Father Factor": What happens when Daddy’s home?
