Probation

Louisiana requests assistance in developing a quality assurance program around their Risk, Needs, Responsibility tool. They also require the facilitation of focus groups to inform the tools development and implementation.

Delaware would like assistance developing a structured devision making aid to assist magistrate judges in translating pretrial risk assessment results with release decision/placements

Ohio, as part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, wants to create an automated central repository for probation information to assist in the data-driven decisionmaking process at the local and state levels.

The Tactical Probation Officer, and Natural Response Control Tactics available through Community Corrections Institute.

Our community has various issues with street gangs and motorcycle gangs as well as drug sales and use. We have very little funding available to provide training to educate law enforcement on these topics and many of the usual resources (NCTC, MAGLOCLEN) have reduced their training due to a reduction in funding.

We would like an expert, Dr. Stacey Patton, to attend a conference that will be held on June 10 and June 11, 2014 at Madison WI. This conference is regarding corporal punishment, and has the objective of educating key stakeholders in Dane County before commencing reform in the subject area. We are asking for travel assistance.

Our New Orleans Task Force has been updated with new members (for the new prostitution diversion program that we will be implementing soon under the Racial Justice Improvement Project). The following critical members have been added: Henry Dean from New Orleans Police Department, Mark Burton and Ginger Miller from the DA’s Office and Charlene Larche-Mason from the City Attorney’s Office.

We are requesting training and team building in the Project HOPE Model, from Jude Alm (the creator of the program model in Hawaii) and the speical team from Pepperdine University. We are implementing Project HOPE in the Worcester Courthouse and this training is essential to the effective implementation of this evidence based model. This is a unique opportunity to have the nation's leading experts conduct the training.

We are in need of fiancial support to provide training on smarter sentencing to corrections professionals in our area

The Lee County Probation Department is in need of implementing evidence based practices. Currently, we have a little over 2,800 active probationers and are not able to effectively classify these probationers by risk and or needs. At this time, most of the decision making is driven by charge.