About Us
Joseph Arvidson | Executive Director
International Trainer – Consultant – Media Host
Education
Metropolitan State University
Graduate Certificate, Project Management 2015 - 2016
St. Cloud State University
Master's Degree, Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration 1985 - 1988
St. Cloud State University
Bachelor's Degree, Criminal Justice and Corrections 1983 - 1985
Experience
The TIDES Supervision Model
Co-Creator
Co-creator of the TIDES Supervision Model, a trauma-informed, desistance-based framework designed to help justice and human service professionals support long-term behavioral change through relationship-centered supervision practices. TIDES integrates neuroscience, desistance theory, evidence-based practices, and implementation support into a practical model currently being explored and implemented across multiple agencies and training initiatives.
International Training School on Core Correctional Skills
Trainer
Trainer and coordinator behind the International Training School on Core Correctional Skills. Based on the training kit of the same name by Professor Ioan Durnescu of the University of Bucharest, the ITSCCS was established 2021. The Core Correctional Skills training kit focuses on developing five of the most important practices that are associated in literature with desistance or reduced reoffending: how to build up a working alliance; pro-social modelling; problem solving; motivational interviewing and cognitive restructuring.
American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies
Speaker and Expert Columnist
Part of a team of professionals who give continuing education presentations. Writes a quarterly Forensic Mental Health Insider as to Evidence Based Practices (EBP) in Corrections.
Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Adjunct Faculty
Designed and have thought several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. These include Correctional ideals, Criminal Justice and the Media, Criminal Justice and Media Relations (Graduate Level), and Correctional Design in a Changing World(Graduate Level).
Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Adjunct Faculty
Teach the course CSJ 300-Correction and Community Corrections.
Part of the team of faculty members teaching the Evidence Based Practices (EBP) Corrections Professional Certificate Program.
Experienced Corrections Practitioner since 1988
Planning Specialist
Develop comprehensive long and short-rage plans, projects and programs.
Develop recommendations on policies, procedures, and service specifically as to the implementation of Evidence Based Practices (EBP).
Analyze trends, research data and changes in laws, rules and regulations to determine the impact on the agency.
