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Criminal Justice Support for New State Administrations

Additional Criminal Justice Opportunities and Resources for Your Administration Behavioral Health Improving County Justice and Behavioral Health Systems: The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center staff use a unique approach to develop tailored, data-driven plans to help jurisdictions reduce the prevalence of mental illnesses in jails.

Medication Assisted Treatment and Corrections: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) will host a series of regional workshops in the summer of 2019 on expanding access to medication assisted treatment to people in the justice system. NGA Center plans to continue this regional workshop series in late 2019/early 2020.

Opioid State Action Network: NGA Center convenes state public safety and health officials on monthly calls to share best practices and lessons learned related to the opioid epidemic.

Police-Mental Health Collaboration (PMHC): Through the PMHC, the CSG Justice Center helps law enforcement, behavioral health, and local leaders determine whether their programs align with promising practices for improving outcomes for people with mental illnesses or who are in mental health crisis.

Stepping Up: Stepping Up is a national movement to provide counties with the tools they need to develop cross-systems, data-driven strategies that can lead to measurable reductions in the number of people with co-occurring mental illnesses and substance addictions in jails.

Criminal Justice Communication Strategy Development Criminal Justice Communications Toolkits: NGA Center has developed two communications toolkits to help states develop a proactive criminal justice communications strategy and a communication plan for critical incident response. These toolkits are designed to help states develop communications plans to support and enhance criminal justice reform efforts. The toolkit website will be released for state official access in spring 2019.

Strengthening Criminal Justice Communications: NGA Center will host a convening in the fall/winter of 2019 for states to improve their proactive criminal justice communication planning and critical incident response efforts.

Criminal Justice and Public Safety Policy Development 50-State Report on Public Safety: This web-based resource combines data analyses with practical examples to help policymakers craft impactful strategies to address their state’s specific public safety challenges. The CSG Justice Center analyzed millions of data points, and with support from ASCA, interviewed corrections staff in all 50 states to collect new data on each state’s research capacity and supervision practices that is reflected in this first-of-its-kind resource.

Consortium for State Public Safety Executives: NGA Center supports a network of state public safety officials at the cabinet level to share best practices and lessons learned. NGA Center holds monthly consortium calls and serves as a resource for state technical assistance requests.

Criminal Justice and Public Safety Institute: NGA Center annually brings together governors’ criminal justice policy advisors and state administering agency executives from each state to discuss key criminal justice and public safety issues, share successes and challenges, and highlight best practices.

Criminal Justice Policy Advisor (CJPA) Network: NGA Center supports a national network of governors’ CJPAs that provides a forum for states to share research and policy highlighting innovative solutions on the most pressing state public safety challenges. NGA Center holds monthly CJPA calls and serves as a resource for state technical assistance requests.

Justice Reinvestment: The CSG Justice Center and other partners support states undertaking a datadriven approach to improve public safety, reduce corrections and related criminal justice spending, and reinvest savings in strategies that can decrease crime and reduce recidivism.

Evidence-Based Practices Improving Risk and Needs Assessment Accuracy: Experts from the CSG Justice Center help corrections agencies execute the critical tasks of examining their current risk and needs assessment practices and evaluating the implementation of assessment tools and the predictive accuracy of their results.

Justice Program Assessment: The Justice Program Assessment is a tailored review of recidivism-reduction programs conducted by the CSG Justice Center to help agencies answer critical questions and create a roadmap to improving their programs.

Juvenile Justice #IOYouth: Improving Outcomes for Youth is a statewide initiative wherein the CSG Justice Center partners with states over an 18-month period to help them align their policies, practices, and resource allocation with what research shows works to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system while enhancing public safety.

Juvenile Justice Roundtable: In the fall of 2019, NGA Center will host a roundtable with state criminal justice and human services officials on alternatives to incarceration and improving outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system.

Transforming Juvenile Justice Systems to Improve Public Safety and Youth Outcomes: In partnership with the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, the CSG Justice Center developed six innovative strategies that states and localities can follow to make sweeping changes to their juvenile justice systems.

Leadership Training Criminal Justice Executive Leadership Academy: This 12-month intensive program, offered by National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), explores topics ranging from criminal justice reform and development of community-based services to ethics, policy development, strategic planning, performance management, and grant administration.

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Reentry Clean Slate Clearinghouse: Supported by the CSG Justice Center, the Clean Slate Clearinghouse helps policymakers understand and reform their criminal record clearance laws.

National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction: Launched by the CSG Justice Center, the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction is an online searchable database that identifies and categorizes the statutes and regulations that impose collateral consequences in all 50 states, the federal system, the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC): Operated by the CSG Justice Center in collaboration with BJA and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the NRRC is the nation’s primary source of information and guidance on reentry. NRRC delivers training and technical assistance, develops tools that assist jurisdictions in implementing evidence-based, data-driven strategies to reduce recidivism, and facilitates peer networks and information exchange through its website.

Safety Planning Mass Violence and Victim Response: NGA Center will host a discussion with public safety executives in late spring 2019 about how states can prevent, respond, and recover from mass violence events.

School Safety: NGA Center convenes states to evaluate their existing school safety frameworks and create action plans to improve prevention and response efforts.

Traffic Safety: NGA Center plans to host additional convenings with states in late 2019/early 2020 about best practices for linking health, transportation, and public safety data to combat impaired driving and reduce the number of traffic injuries and fatalities.

Strategic Planning Criminal Justice Strategic Planning: NCJA, in partnership with the NGA Center and others, supports state criminal justice administrating agencies (SAAs) in developing comprehensive, statewide strategic plans, as required by federal law, and in implementing evidence-based policies and practices.

Grants Management Training: NCJA offers training on federal grants management and administration, covering the foundations of grants management, pre- and post-award and close-out processes, 2 CFR Part 200 Uniform Administrative Requirements, operationalizing federal mandates, and preparing for and responding to federal audits. Separate training on grant writing is also available.

Victims of Crime Improving How States Help Victims of Crime: Experts from the CSG Justice Center employ a dataintensive approach to help states develop short- and long-term strategies to improve mechanisms for assisting victims.

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