Report 2016-131 Recommendation 12 Responses
Report 2016-131: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: It Must Increase Its Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Inmate Suicides (Release Date: August 2017)
Recommendation #12 To: Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of
To ensure that all prison staff receive required training related to suicide prevention and response, Corrections should immediately implement a process for identifying prisons where staff are not attending required trainings and for working with the prisons to solve the issues preventing attendance.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From November 2019
Due to the volume of the response, the updates will be submitted via email, including proof of practice documentation.
- Completion Date: September 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Fully Implemented
1-Year Agency Response
Mental Health now has the ability to run training compliance reports through the Learning Management System portal. As the Suicide Prevention In Service Training is an annual training, compliance will be run September 1 of every year with results sent to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief of Mental Health of each institution, indicating which staff still need to be trained for that calendar year. Compliance will again be reported in January for the previous calendar year.
Mental Health created a training compliance report based on information institutions submit and began reviewing compliance and requiring corrective action plans for those institutions not in compliance in January 2018.
- Estimated Completion Date: September 2018
- Response Date: August 2018
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Pending
6-Month Agency Response
Custody: Currently during the CQIT reviews, Regional Lieutenants review training reports for custody at each institution to determine how many staff have received the required suicide prevention and response training. When an institution is not in compliance, this is reported to HQ and corrective action is required. It is recommended this process continue. In addition, the Learning Management System (LMS) is being implemented in phases and DAI HQ was included January 22, 2018. LMS will allow HQ staff to run compliance training reports for each institution remotely and more efficiently determine compliance.
Mental Health will be working with LMS to include suicide prevention related clinical training tracking in the LMS system in late spring.
Mental Health created a training compliance report based on information institutions submit and began reviewing compliance and requiring corrective action plans for those institutions not in compliance in January 2018.
Compliance rates for health care staff attendance at annual Suicide Prevention In-Service-Training is collected by the SPRFIT coordinators at each institution via the IST office until LMS is available to HQ Mental Health Program staff.
Copies of reports will be provided once complete.
- Estimated Completion Date: May 2018
- Response Date: February 2018
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending
60-Day Agency Response
Custody: Currently during the CQIT reviews, Regional Lieutenants review training reports for custody at each institution to determine how many staff have received the required suicide prevention and response training. When an institution is not in compliance, this is reported to Headquarters (HQ) and corrective action is required. It is recommended this process continue. In addition, the Learning Management System (LMS) is being implemented in phases and the Division of Adult Institutions HQ will be included in the final phase at the end of 2017. LMS will allow HQ staff to run compliance training reports for each institution remotely and more efficiently determine compliance.
The In-Service Training department will run a negative report which captures staff who have not received required training. This will be sent to the Wardens, CEO's, Associate Directors and Regional Health Care Executives for review and follow up.
Mental Health: Mental Health will be working with LMS to include suicide prevention related clinical training tracking in the LMS system. Mental Health will create a training compliance report and will require corrective action plans for those institutions not in compliance.
Copies of negative reports and compliance reports will be provided once complete.
- Estimated Completion Date: January 2018
- Response Date: October 2017
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending
All Recommendations in 2016-131
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.