OCC Announcements
2025 Community Corrections Conference: Call for Presenters
Interested? Fill out this application form by June 20th, 2025
On behalf of the 2025 Statewide Community Corrections Conference planning committee, the Division of Criminal Justice's Office of Community Corrections is pleased to present this Call for Presentations. Please come and share your knowledge on October 21st and 22nd, 2025 at the Delta Hotel (Northglenn, CO).
The theme of this year's conference is, "Empowering Change." Presentations should have an emphasis on knowledge and skills that will empower the field to cultivate change. Applications are sought for 75-minute breakout sessions for a variety of audiences and levels of experience in the adult criminal justice field (Community Corrections program staff and administration, Community Corrections Board members and staff, DOC/Parole, Judicial, other stakeholders).
Please forward this call for presenters applications to anyone who may be interested in presenting a breakout session at our 2025 Community Corrections Conference - Empowering Change.
Save The Date! October 21st - 22nd, 2025 OCC Conference - Empowering Change
Location: Delta Hotels Denver Thornton 10 E 120th Ave, Northglenn, CO 80233, USA
More information to come!
Outpatient Correctional Treatment Funds (CTF)
Community Corrections Stakeholders,
Based on feedback from all of you and the data on the utilization of funding provided by the Correctional Treatment Board for treatment with those with substance use treatment needs, we have updated the policy on the utilization of these funds. Most of the policy has remained the same with the most significant changes including:
Clarification on allowance to utilize the funds for DUI Level II 4+ Treatment
Increase in allowance of Recovery Support Services up to 25%
Edited list of Recovery Support Services to align with Correctional Treatment Board Guidance
OCC CTF Outpatient Funding Policy Revised March 2024
We hope that you will find these updates to be advantageous to providing support for needed services to clients. Please reach out with any questions.
Office of Community Corrections CCC-020: Incident Notification and Resolution
You asked for it and we did it. There is an updated Critical Incident Form for use by stakeholders to report standards-prescribed incidents at their facilities. The updated form includes the following changes:
This form can now be used as the initial PREA report.
More space for the incident description.
More space for the status of the incident and the actions being taken.
A new section for follow-up information received/discovered after the initial report.
We hope you find these updates helpful. If you have feedback or any questions regarding this process or form, please don't hesitate to contact our office. Thank you!