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Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Leveraging Behavioral Health Collaborations to Promote Supervision Success
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Session Type: Workshop
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative is a data-driven approach to help states address their unique criminal justice questions using datta analysis, statkeholder engagement, and collaboration across government and community. Through principal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), over the past 15 years, the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center has helped 33 states accomplish a range of goals, includinng controlling corretions spending and reinvesting in strategies to increase public safety. Despite recent descreases in overall populations, state prison admissions across the country are still primarily driven by revocations from probation or parole. States that are focusing justice policy reform on supporting effective supervision collaborations with behavioral health providers are seeing reductions in recidivism and improved supervision outcomes overall. This workshop highlights how two states – Misouri and Wyoming – used a Justice Reinvestment Initiative approach to build the policy, practice, and partnership infrastructure necessary to improve success for people on supervision.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Nora Bock
Director, Division of Behavioral Health, Missouri Department of Mental Health
Nora Bock serves as the director of the Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) in the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH). The DBH oversees manages programs and services for people who need help for a mental illness or alcohol or drug problem statewide. Services available are prevention, education, evaluation, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Most prevention and treatment services are provided by programs in the community that have a contract with the DBH. Ms. Bock has over twenty years of experience working for the Division of Mental Health.
Dawn Sides
Administrator, Division of Field Services, WY Department of Corrections
Dawn Sides serves as the Field Service Administrator for the Wyoming Department of Corrections. The Division of Field Services is integral to the mission and primary functions of the Wyoming Department of Corrections through effective and efficient supervision of probationers and parolees within communities. Effective supervision management contributes to Wyoming’s quality of life, promoting safer communities, and providing opportunities for change using research-based best practices. The division targets offenders’ specific needs and risks leading to criminal behavior and provides services and programs to meet the unique challenges faced by offenders transitioning from prison to communities and those remaining within communities under supervision. Ms. Sides has over thirty years of experience working for the Wyoming Department of Corrections.
Heather Tubman-Carbone, PhD
Senior Policy Advisor, US Department of Justice : Bureau of Justice Statistics
Heather Tubman-Carbone, PhD, specializes in translating research and policy into practice. As Senior Policy Advisor for the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, Dr. Tubman-Carbone oversees justice reform efforts, including the Justice Reinvestment Initiative and Justice Counts. She also manages Second Chance Act programs to reduce recidivism and support desistance.
Dr. Laura van der Lugt
Project Manager, Council of State Governments
Laura van der Lugt, PhD, is a Project Manager in the State Initiatives Division of the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Dr. van der Lugt has over a decade of experience in assisting coalitions of stakeholders to identify the justice challenges facing their communities; in using data and experience to better understand the drivers of those justice challenges; and in facilitating collaborative, effective, equitable, and evidence-driven policy, and practice approaches to achieve better outcomes.
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