Professional Development

The staff of the Office of Professional Development carries out its mission though championing innovative and strategic partnerships by cultivating trusting, collaborative relationships, upholding ethical standards and creating opportunities to restore and empower our staff and young people.

The Office of Professional Development is dedicated to the following values: 

• Quality Service - We are committed to providing superior, timely, and people-focused service that meets the needs of our staff and partners with excellence.
• Collaboration and Shared Success – We rely on the cooperative efforts every team member -working together solving challenges and celebrating our shared successes while creating new visions for the future.
• Dignity, Trust, and Recognition of the Individual - We honor everyone through dignity, trust, equality, open communication, empowerment, and recognition of excellence-forming the foundation of our Culture of Excellence.

Professional Development is steadfast in providing the most up-to-date professional
development training, resources, and information to the nearly 4,300 full and part-time staff, which
include:

• POST-Certified Juvenile Correctional Officers
• POST-Certified Juvenile Probation Parole Specialists
• POST-Certified Investigators
• POST-Certified Special Operations Officers
• POST- Certified Juvenile Community Services Officer
• Teachers
• Medical Professionals
• Mental Health Professionals
• Juvenile Detention Counselors
• Food Service and Custodial Workers
• Administrative and Support Staff

Professional Development provides initial basic training, specialized training, annual in-service training, and leadership development training throughout the State. Several of the courses are listed below. For a comprehensive list of courses, please contact The Hub Support for assistance at [email protected].

• Basic Juvenile Correctional Officer Training (200 hours)
• Basic Juvenile Probation Officer Training (280 hours)
• Basic Community Services Training (200 hours)
• Basic Facility Non-Security Training (40 hours)
• Special Operations Basic Course (40 hours)

• Aikido Control Training (A.C.T.) (16 hours)
• Field Training Officer Course (40 hours)
• CPR/First Aid/AED (8 hours)
• Crisis Intervention Team Training (40 hours)
• Special Operations - MFFT (49 hours)

• Field Training Officer (FTO) Certification Course (40 hours)
• Leadership Core (Basic, Intermediate, Advance) (24 hours each)
• Career Development Series (48 hours) 
• Professional Management Program (400 hours)
• Command College (460 hours)

• POST Instructor Course (80 hours)
• POST-Firearms Instructor Course (80 hours)
• Aikido Control Tactics Instructor Course (40 hours)
• AHA First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor Course (8 hours)
• Crisis Intervention Team Trainer Training (40 hours)
• Firearms Simulator Instructor Course (16 hours)
• Field Training Officer Certification Training (40 hours)
• O.C. Spray Instructor Course (8 hours)
• Pepper Ball Instructor and Armorer Course (16 hours)

Professional Development Organizational Chart