This webinar was intended to increase participant knowledge of faith-based approaches to reentry with an emphasis on how to become directly involved in and partner with community-based, social service, and government agencies to build a collaborative and sustainable reentry effort. Faith-based organizations learned specific ways to support current reentry efforts using existing assets and resources, learn about the specific needs of formerly incarcerated persons and their families and how to address those needs, and learned about the impact that reentry and those returning from incarceration have on their specific communities. Best practice approaches to providing mentoring services and building networks of support for formerly incarcerated persons and their families were highlighted.

Moderator:

• Le’Ann Duran, National Reentry Resource Center

Presenters:

• Harold Dean Trulear
• Joseph Williams

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This webinar will continued our look inside BJA training and technical assistance with an overview of two amazing programs. The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys provided the audience with information on TTA in the areas of community prosecution. The Center for Court Innovation will shared research and insights on their advances in community courts.

Presenters:

• Steven Jansen, Vice-President, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys
• Julius Lang, Director, Technical Assistance, Center for Court Innovation

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Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
Cost: Free
Space is limited!

Steven Jansen is the Vice-President for the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA). Prior to joining APA, Mr. Jansen was the Director (2005-2009) of the National Center for Community Prosecution (NCCP) at the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Jansen has not only worked with our nation’s prosecutors to further community prosecution, but has provided training and technical assistance abroad, most notably as a consultant for DOJ’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program in Northern Uganda and for the U.S. State Department in Brazil. Mr. Jansen is a former prosecutor from Michigan, who during his tenure worked in two different jurisdictions (Macomb and Wayne County).  While at Wayne County in Detroit, MI, he quickly gained experience as a trial lawyer assigned to the Circuit Court Trial Division. Mr. Jansen is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), serving as a member of the IACP’s Crime Prevention Committee and Firearms Committee.  He is also a key advisor to the IACP’s Great Lakes States Committee on Gun Violence Reduction.

Julius Lang is Director of Technical Assistance at the Center for Court Innovation. Mr. Lang oversees the Center’s expert assistance services – including workshops, site visits and in-person consulting – for jurisdictions around the nation and internationally. He currently spearheads national technical assistance efforts for the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Problem-Solving Justice Initiative, which seeks to promote the wider use of community-based public safety strategies and problem-solving principles throughout the justice system. Mr. Lang’s team also partners with the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys on their Community Prosecution Technical Assistance Initiative, as well as The Bronx Defenders on their Holistic Defense Technical Assistance Program. Previously, Mr. Lang served as the Coordinator of the Midtown Community Court – the Center for Court Innovation’s first demonstration project – in Manhattan’s Times Square neighborhood. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Villanova University School of Law.

This webinar provided an overview to the types of training and technical assistance available from the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Attendees learned about the available training and technical assistance opportunities, how to request assistance, and were provided an introduction to a select group of BJA service providers.

Presenters:

• Helen Connelly, Director, BJA’s NTTAC
• Glenn Archer, Executive Director, IJIS Institute
• Cabell Cropper, Executive Director, National Criminal Justice Association

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This webinar covered definitions, justifications and alternatives to evidence-based policing (EBP). The webinar discussed the evidence-itself, summarizing what we know about police interventions and their crime prevention and reduction effects. Attendees learned the types of changes and infrastructure-building police agencies need to make to be more receptive to information, analysis, and research, as well as suggestions on improving leadership in this area.

Presenter:

• Dr. Cynthia Lum, Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University

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Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Cost: Free
Space is limited!

Helen Connelly has worked in the juvenile, criminal, and human service fields for more than 35 years.  She is the Director of the Washington, DC Office of Fox Valley Technical College; and serves as the Director of BJA’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center and OJJDP’s Missing and Exploited Children’s Training and Technical Assistance Program. She has worked closely with the Federal Agency Task Force on Missing and Exploited Children since its inception more than 15 years ago;  has authored numerous federal publications and reports focusing on juvenile related issues, including When Your  Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide; and has been instrumental in the design, management, and delivery of national scope training and technical assistance programs for much of her career.

Glenn Archer is the Executive Director of the IJIS Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to uniting the private and public sectors to improve critical information sharing for those who provide public safety and administer justice in our communities. As a charter member of the IJIS Institute, he has been deeply committed to furthering the vision, mission and values since its inception. He has been both President and Vice President of the Board of Directors at the IJIS Institute, member of the Executive, XML and Governance Security Committees, Chair of the Intergovernmental Relations and Audit Committees, and Vice Chair of the Industry Working Group (IWG), a group comprised of representatives with public safety and justice expertise, and from which the IJIS Institute was formed. Mr. Archer holds a degree in Economics from Yale University; has served on the U.S. Air Force and is active in the Reserves; and, has over 25 years of experience in technological innovation and information sharing.

Cabell C. Cropper is the Executive Director of the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), the nonprofit association representing state, tribal, and local government on issues of crime control and public policy. Mr. Cropper serves as the principal liaison between state and local units of government, the various agencies of the U.S. government, and criminal justice interest groups. Mr. Cropper served as director of management and administration for the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) for 11 years, where he supervised a staff of 39 providing training, technical assistance, and research services to prosecutors and related professionals nationwide and overseas.  Mr. Cropper also has served as a program consultant with the New York State Division of Probation; as a probation specialist with the Colorado Judicial Department; and as a probation officer with the Denver District Court. Mr. Cropper received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of International Service at The American University (D. C.), a master of public administration from the University of Colorado, and a master of business administration from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration

• NW3C offers a 3-day, face-to-face training on mortgage fraud to investigators and prosecutors, to help them effectively deal with mortgage fraud cases. NW3C will also connect investigators and prosecutors with subject matter experts to help answer case-related questions.
• CPSI provides a variety of training opportunities to criminal justice professionals, first responders, and the community.  For mortgage fraud, CPSI provides an on-line resource for law enforcement and code compliance officers on how to combat problems in their communities due to the increase in foreclosed and abandoned properties.
• NCPC, through its nationally-recognized experts and master trainers, offers a training course to discuss the leading causes of abandoned and foreclosed property crime and mortgage fraud.  The training includes using comprehensive Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to address neighborhoods that are plagued with abandoned properties and foreclosed homes.  The CPTED-based strategy is tailored to include law enforcement, city government, and leaders in each community.

To request help with training and technical assistance, go to www.nw3c.org/mortgagefraud/

This webinar provided an overview the true costs of counterfeiting and piracy, showing the devastating impact these crimes have on the U.S. economy and on consumer health and safety. It also traced the evolution of the problem from the physical marketplace to the digital marketplace, and will conclude with a discussion on how law enforcement, Congress, and industry can together combat this growing threat.

Presenter:

• Rob Calia, Senior Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Handouts:

• Consumer Safety Toolkit

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Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Cost: Free
Space is limited!

Dr. Cynthia Lum is the Deputy Director and Associate Professor of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. Dr. Lum’s research is focused in the area of policing and her works in this area have included evaluations of policing interventions for crime prevention effectiveness, examining place-based determinants of street-level police decision-making, and understanding counterterrorism efforts by state and local law enforcement. With Dr. Christopher Koper (Police Executive Research Forum) and Cody Telep (CEBCP-GMU), she has developed the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a translation tool designed for police practitioners to better institutionalize and utilize research on “what works” in policing into their strategic and tactical portfolio.

If you have any questions or would like more information about BJA’s NTTAC services, please contact us. We hope you’ll join us next month, October 11, for our Second Tuesdays at 2 webinar, The Devastating Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy.

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