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A Look Ahead to 2024

We are officially in the full swing of 2024, and there is so much we’re looking forward to this year across our different work areas. Read ahead to learn about the first webinar from the Community Supervision Resource Center (CSRC), a new toolkit to support justice-involved women going through the pretrial process, and the new cohort of Opportunity Scholars.

We also want to recognize Black History Month and our staff’s commitment to engaging system stakeholders and community members to address racial disparities, centering the experiences of impacted communities, and promoting community well-being and improved system outcomes.

So much to look forward to this month and all year long.

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CEPP’s Opportunity Scholars

With support from the Mellon Foundation, CEPP’s Opportunity Scholars project supports people with lived experience in the carceral system to grow personally, professionally, and academically through access to higher education and fulfilling careers. Opportunity Scholars will serve as peer mentors and lead projects that center community justice, gender equity, and youth justice work nationwide.

We welcome this year’s Opportunity Scholars:

Abdi “Lalee” Awad
Andre Hicks
Brandon Brown
Darlene George
Kerry Simes
Leo Hylton
Linda Small
Nicole Lemay
Se Mi Anderson
Shaun Libby
Victoria Scott

Previewing the Community Supervision Resource Center (CSRC)

Join us for a free webinar on March 14, 2024, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm ET and learn how to access the resources, training, and technical assistance available to your agency. In addition, hear from a distinguished panel of leaders who will address current and vital issues impacting pretrial, probation, and parole supervision agencies.

Featured leaders include:

Heather Tubman-Carbone, PhD, Associate Deputy Director, Corrections and Justice Reform Division, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Kelly Bradford, Statewide Pretrial Program Manager, New Mexico’s Administrative Office of the Courts, and Incoming President, National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies
Marcus Hodges, Associate Director of the Office of Community Supervision and Intervention Services, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency in Washington D.C., and President-Elect, American Probation and Parole Association
Jeremiah Stromberg, Assistant Director of Community Corrections, Oregon Department of Corrections

Award# 15PBJA-22-GK-01739-MUMU, is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and administered by the Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP).

Our Project

Building Pretrial Support for Justice-Involved Women

Last year, we investigated the landscape of pretrial support designed specifically for justice-involved women and found a gap in services. We then held listening sessions with staff and women to determine what that support should look like, and we visited and interviewed staff from promising programs.

The result is a framework for working with justice-impacted women that we call “participatory pretrial.” Watch this space later this year when we unveil our new model.

Our Portfolio

CEPP’s Racial Equity and Community Engagement Work

Our criminal justice system manifests the inequities of our shared past, which, even today, impact policies and practices. We bring equity to the forefront and emphasize the urgency of promoting it.

In our racial equity and community engagement work, we aim to address racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system and integrate the expertise of people directly impacted by the system.

Some of our projects include:

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