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The Survivor Empowerment Center (SEC) based in Southern Illinois has requested training for their staff and coaching sessions for their Rape Crisis Services Program Coordinator, Jennifer Short.

The Bellingham, Washington-based Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services organization
(DVSAS) has requested a two-hour virtual PREA 101 presentation on February 27, 2024. The
presentation is for the organization?s victim advocates to orient them to the PREA standards,
the role of advocates, and a brief explanation of what service provision looks like in practice.
Ms. Tara Graham, JDI?s National Program Director, will oversee the logistics for this TA. Program

The Volunteers of America Residential Reentry Center Casa Alborada (VoA-PR) in San Juan,
Puerto Rico requested a review of their PREA risk assessment instrument secondary to feedback
received in the facility?s most recent PREA compliance audit. More specifically, the auditor
recommended that the instrument assign relative weighting to assessment instrument variables as
opposed to the instrument?s current structure of assigning equal weight to each assessment
instrument variable. During this technical assistance project, The Moss Group, Inc. (TMG) will

Provide a 90-minute virtual PREA 101 presentation for the California-based Center for a Non-Violent Community (CNVC) victim advocates in an effort to orient them to the PREA standards and the role of advocates within the confines of the standards. In addition to the PRC provided TA, JDI will engage the CNVC as part of their Cal-OES grant that supports California victim advocacy organizations in their work with incarcerated survivors across the state. This engagement will include 1:1 support, including relationship building with the nearby CDCR facility, and creation of an MOU.

CJI is collaborating with CSG and BJA to assess the impact of JRI. This includes creating briefs documenting JRI outcome information from a sub-set of JRI states. We submitted four briefs to BJA detailing the JRI efforts in Alaska, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Maryland. BJA. After receiving feedback from BJA, we made edits to those four briefs. We will make further edits next quarter once we receive the next round of feedback. CJI received approval from BJA on briefs detailing JRI efforts in Alaska, Oklahoma, and Maryland. We are working with CSG to prepare the briefs to post on the JRI website.

CJI is collaborating with CSG and BJA to assess the impact of JRI. This includes working together to develop a JRI website for users to learn about JRI work within participating states. The website will include an interactive map with summaries of JRI work in each of the states, and a matrix of policy changes across states since the inception of JRI. We continued to work with CSG to create content for the website. This included adding a blurb to the map noting which states’ JRI efforts were funded by BJA and adding other JRI funded projects to the state summaries.

Six virtual roundtables were held March 14, 2023 to March 23, 2023. Participants included individuals interested in providing more insight about collateral consequences in tribal courts. Groups were determined by region.

On May 19, 2023, Brenda Williams, Clinical Director at the University of Washington Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic, contacted NAICJA seeking assistance with holistic defense. UW serves as the primary public defender of misdemeanors at the Tulalip Tribes Tribal Court. Tulalip is considering updating its court structure to include in-house public defense. Brenda attended NAICJA's Tribal Holistic Defense Roundtable Conference and was interested in sharing with the Tulalip Court Administration the concepts of tribal holistic defense as a model for change.

This reporting period, LISC created a TTA request portal that will collect CVI requests from the field. The landing page for this will eventually be the CVIPI National Resource and Field Support Center website, but until that is active, LISC is providing the link and QR codes during presentations and engagements with the field. This reporting period, LISC responded to 14 TTA requests providing the following TTA supports: virtual consultations, resource dissemination in support of CVI needs, facilitated peer-to-peer exchanges and provided delivery of general training.

LISC has coordinated 6 CVIPI TTA Provider Meetings starting 9/26/23 through the end of the reporting period. These meetings include staff from the Community Based Public Safety Collective and READI National. Topics have focused on general TTA requests coming in, efforts to jointly support planning of the April 2024 CVIPI convening, and addressing general TTA questions.