{ "item_title" : "The Accreditation Manager's Practical Guide", "item_author" : [" Joseph Andrew Race "], "item_description" : "We don't do it for accreditation.Every accreditation manager has said some version of it. Few have ever been given the chance to explain what it means.It means the plaque is a reflection of something. The something is the work - and the work is harder, more consequential, and far more interesting than the file maintenance the position description describes.This is a practical guide for the person who does that work.It assumes no prior accreditation experience, and it does not restate your standards manual. Instead it teaches the reasoning the manuals leave out: - How to read a standard and identify what it actually requires of your organization- What separates a proof of compliance an assessor accepts from one they question- Why a written directive is a legal instrument rather than paperwork, and how municipal liability under 42 U.S.C.1983 and the Monell doctrine turns on what your directives say and whether your people follow them- How to build a directive, govern it, review it, and train to it- How to run a self-assessment, survive a mock assessment, and manage an onsite- How to use accreditation as a risk management instrument instead of a filing exercise- How to build a program that does not collapse when its manager is promoted, transferred, or retiresIt is written for six disciplines at once. Law enforcement, fire, EMS, corrections, communications, and emergency management accredit under different bodies and different manuals - CALEA, CFAI, CAAS, EMAP, ACA, and the state programs - but the underlying logic is one logic: a standard, a proof, a review, an onsite, a term of accredited status, a reassessment. Every chapter's worked example is set outside policing, so that a warden, a communications director, and a fire chief each find the book was written with them in the room.Every chapter closes with a manager's checklist, a cross-discipline note, and reflection questions.No standard numbers appear anywhere in the book. Standard numbers change; the reasoning does not.Written by an attorney and retired police captain who has run the program, taught the program, and read other people's files as an assessor.For the manager who has just been handed the program - and for the one who has run it three times and wants to do it better.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/475/9798174753440_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "44.95", "online_price" : "44.95", "our_price" : "44.95", "club_price" : "44.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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