Families of Prisoners

During this webinar, experts provided an overview of Your Money, Your Goals, an easy-to-use toolkit designed to help organizations improve the financial literacy of clients who are identified as low-income or vulnerable, including those who are returning to the community from incarceration. Your Money, Your Goals includes modules and tools on credit reports, debt management and debt collection, bill prioritization, identity protection, how to submit a complaint about financial products and services, and more.

This webinar shared approaches for building positive relationships between mentors and participants, including the importance of communication skills, problem-solving strategies, and conflict management tools. These competencies can also help participants improve their own family, personal, and professional relationships as they reenter the community.

In this webinar, BJA representatives provided an overview of the JMHCP solicitation, discussed eligibility and application materials, and led a question and answer session.

In this webinar BJA representatives provide an overview of the JMHCP solicitation, explain the law enforcement priority consideration, discuss eligibility and application materials, and lead a question and answer session.

In this webinar, panelists shared with participants the most recent research on how to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for juveniles who have committed sexual offenses, and provide a practical example of how the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission is working to achieve these goals.

This webinar was for organizations responding to the 2015 Second Chance Act Statewide Recidivism Reduction solicitation. During webinar, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance explained the grant program application process.

The Colson Task Force, established by Congressional mandate, is a nine‐person, bipartisan, blue ribbon panel charged with examining challenges in the federal corrections system and developing practical, data‐driven policy responses. With presentations from federal criminal justice leaders, this first meeting focused on key issues facing the federal criminal justice system related to prison population growth, costs, and overcrowding. The insights shared during this public session informed the Task Force as it works to identify opportunities for criminal justice reform.

Responded to 8 requests for information via phone and email. Requests this quarter included a request from a Syracuse NY newspaper on the transition of women from jail to the community, and other requests for information on topics such as mentoring women, their increased rate of incarceration, and alternatives to prison.

Co-present with Marnie Shiels at OVW at the STOP Administrator Conference on PREA and STOP formula funding. Co-lead two breakout sessions to discuss PREA implementation.

Note: The following activities should not be displayed on the calendar. Governors' offices ask that requests to NGA Center for assistance be kept confidential.

Between July and December 2014, the NGA Center provided technical assistance to governors’ offices. In all, we responded to nine requests for assistance.