Study/Assessment

Open-ended, individual interviews with all CJI team members were conducted from 8/6/14 to 8/13/14 to gather feedback from the project team on barriers, drivers, and lessons learned, and more feedback was solicited in October at the project meeting. Informal feedback was gathered throughout the project. The project team checked in frequently with the restrictive housing manager, and constantly evaluated the efforts of technical assistance to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

In the previous grant period, NCIA learned that the majority of CI programs were not tracking post-release employment and no CI programs were tracking post-release employment for PIECP offenders separately from their other (traditional) CI offenders. NCIA is working with the larger PIE programs to determine how this can be done with the hopes of developing some type of system that can be replicated throughout the PIECP field.

NCIA, primarily through its PIECP Technical Consultant, is tasked with updating the PIECP Growth summary document that was submitted to BJA in 2013. Work was begun on formulating the follow up questions to examine the strategies and processes of the most successful PIECP programs in order to share that with other certificate holders. Interviews will be conducted in the upcoming reporting period and the report will be drafted. The update of PIECP activity itself will be completed once the fourth quarter 2014 statistical reports have been submitted by all certificate holders.

The purpose of the project is to conduct an academic review and validate the existence of suspicious activity reporting (SAR) indicators in terrorism incidents in the United States while attempting to identify additional missing indicators.

University of Delaware (the Delaware Disability Awareness Task Force) requested NCCJD input re: developing survey to determine # of people with disabilities who are victimized in their state. Staff provided feedback and resources via an over one conference call.

The Criminal Court Assessment Tool (CCAT) is a new, brief assessment tool that identifies an offender’s risk level prior to case disposition, while also screening for key needs which, if treated, would be expected to lower the risk of reoffending. The Center for Court Innovation developed this tool to fill a gap in existing risk-needs assessment tools, which have primarily been designed to be implemented post-sentencing and with serious offenders.

Technical assistance program review of the Walworth County Drug Court in Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Consultants: Judge John Parnham and Valerie Moore

Technical assistance program review of the Hardin County Veteran’s Treatment Court in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Consultants: Judge John Parnham and Judge Mark Johnson

Technical assistance program review of the Fond du Lac Safe Neighborhoods Drug and Alcohol Court Program in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Consultants: Judge Kevin Burke and Dr. Richard Grimm

Technical assistance program review of the San Mateo County Veterans Treatment Court in Redwood City, CA

Consultants: Judge John Parnham and Scott Tirocchi