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A 5-day certification and re-certification training by the Community Corrections Institute (CCI) on the Natural Response Control Tactics (NRCT). The 5 day (back to back) training being requested is training for trainers.

Parole & Probation (P&P) in Lane County, Oregon is requesting technical assistance to revise its Policies and Procedures to align with their systems change to incorporate evidence-based practices (EBPs) into every aspect of their work with their clients. In Oregon, counties provide supervision and services for offenders who have committed felonies and are returning from imprisonment in state Department of Corrections facilities or are sentenced directly to probation.

Technical assistance with the implementation of The Drug Market Intervention evidence-based model. This engagement consisted of one day of training, and one day of individual follow-up meetings with stakeholder agencies. Training participants consisted of mainly Camden County Police Department officers (and other ranks), other Camden County personnel, as well as members from the Newark (NJ) VRN site, Wilmington (DE) VRN site, and West Memphis (AR) VRN site.

NCJA Travel

The Camden County Police Department is requesting assistance to enhance access to probation data. In order to do this, the New Jersey Courts needs assistance in determining how to best extract the data and to receive a demonstration on how a web enabled system can not only help Camden County access their public data, but every county in New Jersey as well.

BJA will commission a White Paper on risk assessment use in state and local sentencing decision making. The final report will be a critical tool to expand BJA's knowledge of how risk information is used, and may impact future BJA funding priorities and strategies.

BJA will identify a provider to facilitate JRI peer-to-peer technical assistance events. Similar events were held in February 2015 to share ideas, resources, and tools from sites involved in JRI efforts. This TA will expand those events to more sites involved in JRI activity.

The Los Angeles Police Department requests technical assistance with probation mapping and crime analysis.

Arkansas Community Correction (ACC) is requesting technical assistance through BJA to assist with revising the current Medicaid and private option policy regarding physician referrals for mental health services. Preliminary research has been done by ACC through analyzing other states’ Medicaid policies. Currently, individuals receiving Medicaid must obtain a referral from a Primary Care Physician (PCP) before accessing mental health or substance abuse services in the community.