Recidivism

CSG JC staff met to discuss scope of work for ACCE under new NRRC award, including:
1) Disseminate the guide for hosting local business engagement dialogues to local chambers
2) Survey chambers and industry/sector-based associations about fair-chance hiring and workforce development programs serving people with criminal records to be used to learn how ACCE/NRRC can best support local chambers

CSG JC staff met with Darcy Saas of Boston Reserve Bank to talk about the study on?ban the box and CORI?reform impacts on recidivism reduction and wages/hours worked. Likely hosting conference in 2017, will continue to communicate.

CSG JC staff hosted a conference call of 12 adult demonstration grantees was held for FY14 and FY15 cohorts to learn about the target population, program scope, evaluation plan, as well as contact information for research and practitioner partners. A document with this information was developed by CSG and provided to the grantees both in the online Slack community and via email.

SCA Demo P&I grantees utilized Slack, an information sharing platform, to facilitate peer-to-peer learning. The purpose of the Slack channel was to encourage gantees to schedule calls, webinars, site visits, and other activities.

CSG JC staff covered the following at this meeting:
1. OJJDP and CSGJC introductions
2. Reflections on FY15 TTA experience: What worked well and lessons learned moving forward
3. Discussion of FY16 grant programs and expectations:

CSG JC staff presented to the TN task force.
This will be the first of 5 meetings of the task force. The meeting discussion provided a brief history of how juvenile justice has been handled in Tennessee (operationally/state level/ local level/ courts/ etc.) for context. Senator Norris provided a national perspective - what other states are doing, how they are doing, results, etc, and trends in reform.?

CSG JC staff met with Policy Research Associates/NCMHJJ to reflect on the overall joint technical assistance experience and partnership, and identified some clear lessons learned through the support we received from PRA in being able to support grant recipients in improving behavioral health outcomes for youth in contact with the juvenile justice system.

CSG JC staff met with NCLC (Persis Yu) to discuss federal and state fair credit reporting acts, consumer reporting agencies, state criminal history repositories, and the Justice Center's record clearance program.

CSG JC staff met with Citizens for Juvenile Justice (Sana Fadel and Naoka Carey) to discuss state work to expand juvenile record clearance, criminal record repositories, and the Justice Center's record clearance.

CSG JC staff conducted a quarterly PBC IRES Pilot Project site visit to meet with various stakeholders and implement recommendation derived from the first year of findings.