Correctional Systems, Inc.
Martin Rickler, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development
San Diego Administrative Office
7805 Arjons Drive, Suite A
San Diego, CA 92126
Phone: (858) 566-9816
Fax: (858) 566-9837
mrickler@crxs.com
Vice President, Research and Development
Correctional Systems, Inc. - a publicly-traded private criminal justice agency. Responsible for program design, research, project budgeting and proposal writing.
Senior Partner
The Paladin Group - Consulting, Program Design, Proposal and Grant Writing (4 years)
A Consulting Group specializing in the Social Services, Criminal Justice,
Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Health Care.
Recent Contracts:
- Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Program
- Produced On-Line Information, Resource and Referral Web Pages
- Santa Barbara County Probation Department
- Grant Writing resulting in a $714,000 Drug Court Grant Award from U.S. Department of Justice
- Earth Communications Office (ECO)
- Consulting and Grant Writing to Acquire $200,000 to Fund Production and National Distribution of Theatrically-Released Environmental Public Service Announcements
- Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority
- Consulting & Design for $48,000 Dual Diagnosis Grant Award from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Santa Barbara Visiting Nurse Association
- Coordinating Multi-Agency Project for New Chronic Illness System
- Ventura County Corrections Services Agency
- Developed Plan for Probation's New Juvenile Justice System
- Santa Barbara County's United Way
- Consulting and Development of the Linkages Grantmaking Program
- Consulting and Development of the Successful Outcomes Grantmaking Program
- Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (Santa Barbara's NCADD)
- Consulting, Annual and Budget Reports, Program Design and Grant Writing
- Christopher House
- Grants, including $60,000 Refinancing Savings on Residential AIDS Facility
Periodic Consulting and Grant Writing To:
- Santa Barbara Police Department
- Santa Barbara County Probation
- Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Program
- Ventura County Alcohol and Drug Program
- Community Action Commission/Head Start
- Zona Seca Counseling Program
- Girls, Inc. of Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara County's United Way
- Lompoc's Farmhouse Residential Treatment Program
- Area Board on Disabilities
- IN SPIRIT, serving persons with disabilities
- The California Three Rs Project
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of the San Fernando Valley (NCADD)
- The Institute of Behavioral Medicine
Project Coordinator/Systems Consultant
"Fighting Back" (4 years)
Santa Barbara Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, a NCADD affiliate.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Designed and wrote proposals which obtained a $200,000 Planning Grant and a $3 Million Implementation Grant award.
- Facilitated 300 people in 15 Networks over a two year period to produce a community-wide drug abuse plan.
Community Projects Coordinator
Santa Barbara County Alcohol & Drug Program (4 years)
Program design and implementation, grant writing, community education,
training, and community organization.
Designed:
- and managed CAPNET, a 160 member community-wide network of agencies and individuals.
- and produced two weekly television series (English & Spanish) about alcohol and drug-related problems.
- free tape distribution of the 81 videos which were seen by over 8,000 clients, families, and students annually.
- and wrote the proposal to fund the Santa Barbara Designated Driver Program which was adopted as the California State Model by the California Highway Patrol and the national model by M.A.D.D.
Director of Research
Eclectic Communications, Inc. - Program design, budgeting, staff
training, proposal, grant and technical writing (3 years)
A private contract criminal justice agency. (Became Cornell Corrections)
Designed:
- the first privately operated State Prison in California.
- the first California Department of Corrections' Return to Custody
(RTC) facility.
- the programs for the first private federal juvenile prison in the
United States.
- the first psychiatric halfway house for developmentally disabled
Cuban aliens under federal detention.
- staff training for all programs, as well as for staff of state and
federal contract halfway houses and detention centers.
- contracts and grants responsible for more than $100 million in
renewable government awards.
Counseling Experience (5 years)
- Alcoholism Counselor in an inpatient hospital program.
- Halfway House Counselor for inmates on work-furlough.
- Teaching Parent for autistic/schizophrenic children.
- Recreation Counselor for developmentally disabled adults.
Boards of Directors
New House, 120-bed Social Model Alcohol & Drug Recovery Homes for Men (Past President and Member; Seven Years of Service)
UCSB Alcohol & Other Drug Studies Counseling Certificate Program Advisory Board.
Faculty
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Alcohol and Other Drug Studies Certificate Program
- Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara
- Psychology Doctoral Program Adjunct Faculty
Awards
Robert W. Wetzel Award in the area of Prevention & Education, for "outstanding contributions toward the control of California's alcohol-related problems." By the California State Advisory Board on
Alcohol-Related Problems (1988).
IRIS Award by the National Association of Television Programming
Executives for producing Trouble in Paradise, a half-hour documentary on drug abuse (1991). Emmy Nomination for "Trouble in Paradise" documentary.
Education & Training
Ph.D. in Education: Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology,
Problem Solving (UCSB).
M.A. and B.A. in Psychology: Physiological Psychology, Perception & Learning (CSULA).
Certified Residential Facility Administrator for Criminal Justice Facilities
(C.R.F.A., by IHHA)
Management Training Certificate for Managing Criminal Justice
Agencies (Department of Justice's National Corrections Academy)
Alcohol Counseling Certificate (Pinecrest Hospital and SPAN)
Alcohol and Other Drug Studies Certificate (UCSB)
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