The is a center of correctional learning and experience. NIC advances and shapes effective correctional practice and public policy that respond to the needs of corrections agencies through collaboration and leadership, and by providing assistance, information, education, and training.

Both a direct-service and funding agency, NIC's five legislatively mandated activities are training, technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy and standards formulation and implementation, and serving as an information clearinghouse. The first four activities are delivered by NIC's Academy, Community Corrections, Jails, and Prisons Divisions. The contracted NIC Information Center provides the clearinghouse services.

NIC services that compliment CSOM include:

• Access to an extensive corrections library, including more than 350 titles on sex offender related issues;

• Peer to peer referral to corrections practitioners on a range of sex offender related topics (i.e., classification, housing, and treatment in jails or prisons);

• Short term technical assistance on the management of sex offenders in correctional settings not funded under the provisions of CSOM; and

• Training on the treatment of sex offenders in correctional institutions and in transition to the community.

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