Seeking Correctional Health Professionals’ Insights into Workplace Stress and Trauma Resources

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Corrections are seeking resources to address corrections job stress and trauma through input from health care professionals working in corrections who have direct contact with incarcerated individuals. The aim is to gather best practices and learn more about resources for trauma, critical incidents, and corrections work-related stress. Health professionals in corrections, education, mental and behavioral health, social services, case management, community corrections, probation and parole, spiritual services, and security are invited to take a short survey on the topic.

The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete, and responses are appreciated by December 15, 2024.  You will be asked about your facility’s resources as well as some optional questions describing your age, gender, racial identity, years of work in corrections, and highest educational degree earned. Please consider taking the voluntary survey to inform the work under this cooperative agreement with the NIC (23PR11GLP2) and broader NIC training and educational resources on stress and trauma.

The new survey of corrections workplace stress and trauma resources is open for your input. Please share your experiences and ideas to improve corrections work for ALL involved in the correctional workplace by filling out this survey and sharing it with your corrections colleague. It is available here or through this QR code:

You can see the findings from Phase 1 of the project on NIC’s website including a recorded webinar and brief report here.

The researchers are Mazen El Ghaziri, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, UMass Lowell, and Lisa Jaegers, PhD, OTR/L, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University.

If you have any questions about this research, please contact [email protected] .

UMass Lowell Institutional Review Board reference IRB #21-148-ELG-EXM (9/12/2024).