Don’t forget to register for the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) webinar, From Grant Funds to State Appropriations. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 6 at 3:00p.m. EST. Speakers for the webinar will highlight two successful statewide initiatives, the Illinois Redeploy initiative and Oregon’s network of Drug and Problem Solving Courts. In addition to highlighting the success of these initiatives this webinar will look at how initiatives were transitioned, how state grant making agencies can support promising and proven initiatives, and some of the challenges these initiatives experienced when transitioning to state and local appropriations. Presenters for this webinar are Circuit Court Judge Dennis J. Graves (Salem, Oregon) and Mary Ann Dyar, program administrator for Illinois Adult Redeploy. Additionally, representatives from the Oregon and Illinois State Administrating Agencies (SAAs) will share some of the ways that state grant making agencies can support efforts of sub-grantees to find sustainable state or local funding. From Grant Funds to State Appropriations