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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

Community Corrections Specialist Certificate


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The Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Certificate in Community Corrections offers the opportunity to build essential skills for community corrections professionals. Additionally, this initiative supports the growing demand for alternatives to incarceration. This certificate is designed to support criminal justice organizations such as Day Report Centers, Community Residential Programs, Parole & Probation Services, advocacy groups, individuals supporting community correctional rehabilitation, and other organizations focused on alternatives to incarceration or holistic approaches.

 

Program Overview

The Community Corrections Specialist Certificate builds essential skills for those working in areas critical to alternatives to incarceration. Topics covered include grant writing, diversion approaches, trauma informed approaches, and treatment of underlying causes of deviance and recidivism.  Social structural factors specific to the area and the role of counseling for the criminal justice professional will also be offered.

Curriculum for a Certificate in Community Corrections Specialist


General Education Core 6
Community Corrections Core 24
Total Credit Hours Required 30

 

Program Disclaimer


This curriculum includes a list of courses required for this program of study for this calendar year. Your Academic Plan can be found on DegreeWorks once you become a degree-seeking student.

 

Note: All salary projections are based on the current position and educational needs. BRCTC cannot guarantee that the projections given will be the salaries or jobs learners or graduates will ultimately receive.

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