Workshops &
Conferences
Break Through With Youth! Evidence Based Interventions for Working With
Youth and Adolescents
March
24-26,
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Online eLearning Webinars
Cognitive-Behavioral
Approaches for Substance Abuse and Criminal Conduct Intervention
February 3 & 4
How to
Motivate Staff & Stakeholders To Optimize Performance:
Essential Skills for "More Tenured" Supervisors and Managers - Core Skills 2
February 8 & 9
Motivational
Interviewing: An Introduction to Foundational Concepts, Strategies and
Techniques
February 17 & 18 - Online Webinar
Co-Occurring Disorders: Integrated Approaches for Effective
Interventions
February
25 & 26
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2010
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In
this
issue we highlight various collaborations -- among mental
health providers' for funding, CSOSA with DC Metro Police Dept.,
Census Bureau on jobs creation, USA congressional leaders' on
justice
dollars and other funding articles. Also featured is Annie E.
Casey Foundation's work to lower juvenile detention rates.
Click on
the links provided to review the articles online. -
Agencies
collaborate, reach deal on mental health funding
The two agencies locked in competition to
oversee mental health and substance abuse services in central and
southwest Florida have agreed to a compromise and will share $414
million in state...More
>>
-
New
CSOSA TV
Interview-Police, Parole and Probation Cooperation to Supervise
Criminal
Offenders-DC Public Safety
An
overview of inter agency cooperation between the Court Services and
Offender Supervision Agency, the Metropolitan Police
Department
(MPD)and
other law enforcement.... More
>>
- Ex-convicts
in District flock to apply for census jobs
The word had spread, in churches
and parole offices and halfway houses. The federal government
is hiring for the
2010 Census, and tests for
applicants were being given in a District neighborhood... More
>>
- USA
congressional Leaders Take on Recidivism and Corrections Spending
A bipartisan group of congressional and
state leaders and experts on criminal justice policy came together
today to examine how states are changing their crime and corrections
policies through "justice... More >> |
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Juvenile
Detention is Down and Nobody Seems to Notice!
Launched in the 1990s as a five-site,
foundation funded demonstration project, the Juvenile Detention
Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) is on track to become the standard of
practice for how local justice .... More
>> - $15 Million for Non-Profit
Organizations' Reentry
Bureau of
Justice Assistance has released an RFP to non-profit
organizations for mentoring projects, under the “Second Chance Act”
mission, of ” providing services and programs to facilitate
.... View
- 2010
USA Federal Budget Boosts Funding for Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Programs
For the second year in a
row, federal mental health and substance abuse
treatment agencies have seen funding increase for many programs—in some
cases well beyond the amount requested by .... More
>>
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