Host Conference

Recognizing the overlap between behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) and the criminal justice system, State Administering Agencies (SAAs) are increasingly looking to support programs and initiatives related to behavioral health and crisis response. In the early 2000s, Dr. Mark Munetz and Dr. Patricia A. Griffin along with Dr. Henry J. Steadman of Policy Research Associates, Inc. developed the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM).

The IACP panel titled "Experiences from the Field: What Works in Advancing Women Officers" discussed lessons learned and successes from 30x30 participating agencies with a focus on how to effect change and increase the representation of women in policing. It featured Assistant Chief Armando Aguilar (Miami Police Department), Chief Kenneth Cost (Mesa Police Department), Detective Superintendent David Cowan (Victoria Police), Dr. Tanya Meisenholder (Director of Gender Equity, Policing Project), and Chief Sheryl Victorian (Waco Police Department).

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.

An integrated and comprehensive week of memorial activities that honor the memory of the officers lost in the line of duty, and building the basis for law enforcement survivors to understand ways they can begin to rebuild their shattered lives. C.O.P.S. Survivor's Conference includes over 70 counseling and debriefing sessions facilitated by professional counselors and peer support staff each year.

LISC was in contact weekly (often daily) with BJA representatives to plan the 2024 CVIPI Grantee Conference and hosted weekly 2024 CVIPI Grantee Conference Planning Meetings. Planning activities included submitting for approval convening planning timelines, presenters, and descriptions; conference workshop descriptions, presenters, and learning objectives; conference cost approval requests; draft hotel and A/V provider contracts; and webpage designs.

This meeting will bring together governors’ criminal justice policy advisors (CJPAs) and state administering agency executives (SAAs) from each state to discuss key criminal justice and public safety issues, share successes and challenges and highlight best practices.

Center staff hosted a VTC Summit on April 2nd and April 3rd, 2024, at the National Veterans Resource Center in Syracuse, NY. This in-person summit was an opportunity for teams from the 2019 cohort (California, Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) and 2022 cohort (Arkansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon) to connect, collaborate, and learn about veteran-specific topics through plenary and break-out sessions. Attendees included about ten VTC stakeholders from each of the nine different states that the Center has worked with on VTC strategic planning.

States face numerous and pressing criminal justice challenges that directly impact communities and agencies across multiple levels of government. State leaders—governors, legislators, and agency officials—play a critical role in ensuring public safety by setting priorities, identifying policies and programs to achieve them, and allocating finite resources that impact every area of the justice system.

The goal of this TTA is to host the 2023 BJA Violent Crime Reduction Summit for agencies to learn about violent crime reduction strategies.

Altarum staff attended, and exhibited a poster presentation at, the Camden Coalition 2023 Behavioral Health Confernce.