$2,501 - $5,000

The second session focused on the nuts and bolts of data collection and sharing, including the features of good data sharing, what data collection should include, and logic models.

Colmena Collective will work with and support LISC Safety & Justice Training and Technical Assistance efforts by providing direct administrative and organizational capacity building guidance to grantees of the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention (CVIPI) Capacity Building project. The team at Colmena will participate in the community justice accelerator and will provide presentation on partnership engagement and organizational governance and board development.

Admin Support, Org Assessment, Capacity Building Guidance

Modeled after last year's successful Second Chance Month Returning Home Ohio Site Visit, this event brought top federal leadership including Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone, U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance as well as Dr. Richard Cho, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Executive Deputy Secretary Kelly Evans and Deputy Secretary Dr. Lucas Malishchak of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections as well as Secretary Dr.

The CSG Justice Center provided intensive TTA to Better Health Together in eastern Washington state, which requested support with developing and delivering a training around gender-responsive services. They expressed a great need for this type of service in the area, particularly related to reentry, as partner agencies had little to no baseline knowledge on the intersection of these topics. The CSG Justice Center engaged a consultant from the Center for Effective Public Policy, which runs the National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women, to help develop the training.

The CSG Justice Center provided intensive TTA to the Montpelier, VT, Police Department, which works in collaboration with the Washington County Mental Health Services (WCMHS). In collaboration with IJIS Institute the CSG Justice Center reviewed the police department and WCMHS data systems, the data being collected, the data needs of both providers, and helped identify a new data tracking system that was agreed upon and subsequently implemented.

The CSG Justice Center worked with the Northeast DuPage, IL, Family and Youth Services (NEDFYS) organization and their law enforcement partners on their Behavioral Health Referral Program data collection project. We met with the NEDFYS team to review their current referral processes with each law enforcement partner, current data collection methods, their internal data dashboard, and their methods of client outreach. Along with representatives from IJIS Institute we also met with each partner law enforcement agency to review their internal processes.

CSG Justice Center staff responded to one LE-MH Collaboration Support Center Level 2 request from the field.

CSG Justice Center staff responded to 47 LE-MH Collaboration Support Center Level 1 requests from the field.

CSG Justice Center staff responded to JMH Partnerships Support Center Level 1 requests from the field.

This workshop assisted attendees in identifying best practices partnering with community-based organizations to assist in the reentry process from the jail to the community. The presentation discussed concepts of successful reentry to include collaborative comprehensive case planning, defining roles and responsibilities of partners, and developing information sharing protocols. Additionally, the workshop identified strategies on engagement that consider risk, needs, and responsivity with presentation from Second Chance Act Grantees focused on cultural responsivity and special populations.