Operational Support

TJSPP mentor assists tribe with their tribal justice strategic plan. Assistance includes phones/conference calls, emails, and plan review/guidance/feedback.

TJSPP mentor assists tribe with their tribal justice strategic plan. Assistance includes phones/conference calls, emails, and plan review/guidance/feedback.

TJSPP Mentor assists tribe with their tribal justice system strategic plan. Assistance includes phone/conference calls, emails and plan review/guidance/feedback.

There has been a hold on the funds due to a prior Nevada DCFS office's inadequate audit of use of prior grant funds. Nevada requested partial drawdown for some projects, and Ania Dobrzanska had to get approval so DCFS was still waiting on that in October. Nevada did expend their own funds to develop the PREA educational materials which included two brochures, one for youth, one for families/public and one PREA poster as well as a staff wallet card with first responder steps. They also started the electronic case management upgrade with Tyler Technologies and are still working on it.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, WVDCR was able to make significant progress on their time task. During this reporting period, the grantee distributed and collected surveys for all of the pilot sites, reviewed and updated their PREA policy - an ongoing project, and provided all pilot sites with access to the data reporting system. Additionally, the grantee reviewed and updated the coordinated response protocol.

King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) continues to be on track for successful completion. During the October to December reporting period, DAJD has had steady contact with the JDI coaches. Due to changing needs in staffing due to COVID, DAJD has decided to redirect some grant funding to innovative training for their staff. DAJD has begun developing a training plan that involves small lessons designed to keep information regarding sexual safety fresh for the staff and their resident population, with a focus on identifying red flags and reporting.

The Los Angeles County Probation Department (LACPD) has worked on staff training and resident education. Due to difficulty in hiring a training officer to assist in curriculum development, the PREA team has begun work on curricula on its own. The TMG coaches have assisted in reviewing materials and providing edits. LACPD is hoping to move forward with initiating the PREA audit process to begin in the summer of 2021. This has added pressure on the PREA implementation team in order to be ready for the initial audit.

Pamphlets were going to be ACAR produced in October 2020. The TMG TA Coach offered to review them, provide TA, and help if needed. The TMG Coach and PREA staff continue to have monthly check in calls to troubleshoot new and emergent issues and work towards full implementation of the goals.? Alabama PREA audits previously scheduled for fall were moved to January and February 2021 because of COVID. Those may have to be rescheduled but the agency does plan on going forward. They planned to conduct some interviews via Zoom.

Montgomery County is using the $20,000 they received, (along with their matching $30,000), to create an electronic reporting system, adding to a system they already managed. The selected vendor built this from scratch, allowing information to be entered into a desktop or laptop where PREA complaints can be filed electronically, closed upon investigation completion.? It also contains a front-end audit feature. Montgomery County created the programs and finished the testing phase.

DC DYRS continued to face implementation delays as a result of internal fiscal issues. The PREA Coordinator and grant point of contact Nancy Fisher were not able to access funds until October 1, 2020, the start of DC?'s fiscal year. This was due to DC?'s inability to recognize the grant funds in the previous fiscal year since the funds had not been part of the approved budget for the previous fiscal year. Unfortunately, October 1st was not the end of the challenges. Ms.