1/18: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance) to discuss general project updates, the status of the introductory webinar presentation, next steps for the TA opportunities strategies, upcoming presentations for CLA and APPA, and discussed previously shared documents drafts.
2/17: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with the MHS team and Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance) to conduct a dry run of the upcoming webinar presentation for MHS Public Safety Webinar.
2/28: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Sarah Desmarais (President, Policy Research Associates) to discuss general project updates, the finalization of the introductory webinar presentation, and planning of the upcoming webinar presentation for MHS Public Safety Webinar.
3/6: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with BJA policy and communications teams, including Michele Martin (Web Content Specialist (Contractor), OJP), Michelle Martin (Director of Administration and Communications, BJA), and Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance), to review the materials developed for the TA opportunities.
3/8: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Kirk Heilbrun (Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University) regarding RNR.
3/9: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Tracy Hudrlik (Interstate Director, MN DOC) and Allen Godfrey (Director of Field Services, MN DOC) regarding TA opportunities and the risk and needs assessment guidelines.
3/11: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Sarah Desmarais (President, Policy Research Associates) to discuss the five levels of risk, need, responsivity.
3/17: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, PhD, (Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University) to discuss risk, need, responsivity.
4/12: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Veronica Cunningham (Executive Director, APPA) and Meg Watt (Director of Marketing and Communications, APPA) to discuss the TA Opportunities Promotion Toolkit to be used for promoting the new opportunities through social media, APPAÕs newsletter, and email blasts.
4/12: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Kevin Johnson (Financial Operations Director for Texas Department of Criminal Justice Community Justice Assistance Division) regarding the TA opportunities and the risk and needs assessment guidelines.
4/14: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Brian Mirasolo (Deputy Commissioner, Field Services for Massachusetts Probation Service) regarding TA opportunities and the risk and needs assessment guidelines.
4/25: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Allen Godfrey (Field Services Director for the State of Minnesota) regarding TA opportunities and the risk and needs assessment guidelines.
5/1: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Grant Duwe (Director of Research, MN DOC) to discuss risk guidelines project.
5/3: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with the MN CSTS Data Committee to discuss the risk guidelines project.
5/10: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with NJ DOC representatives Dr. Laura Salerno (Division Director, NJ DOC), Tracy Robidoux (Administrative Analyst, Fiscal Management, NJ DOC), and Angela S. Mosley-Ross (Grants Manager/Administrative Analyst, NJ DOC) regarding their application for TA and to establish next steps.
5/11: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with the MN JRI Phase II Working Group to discuss the risk guidelines project.
5/15: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Grant Duwe (Director of Research, MN DOC) to discuss the MN Risk-Need-Responsivity Assessment System.
5/17: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Sarah Desmarais to discuss risk guidelines project TA.
5/17: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Brian Mirasolo (Deputy Commissioner, Field Services for Massachusetts Probation Service) and Michael Coelho (Deputy Commissioner of Probation, Programs, Massachusetts Probation Service) regarding their application for TA and to establish next steps.
5/18: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Allen Godfrey (Director of Field Services Director, State of Minnesota), Kameron ÒKamiÓ Genz (Director, Aitkin County, Community Corrections Association), Tracy Hudrlik (Interstate Director, Minnesota Department of CorrectionsManager, State of Minnesota), and Michael Schommer (Director, Probation Director, Otter Tail County Probation) regarding their application for TA and to establish next steps.
5/31: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Allen Godfrey (Field Services Director for the State of Minnesota) to discuss risk guidelines project.
5/31: CSG Justice Center staff held a call with Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director, BJA) and Jeffrey Locke (Senior Policy Advisor, BJA) to discuss application recommendations for TA to improve post-conviction risk and reeds assessment.
6/1: Call with Daryl G. Kroner, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Southern Illinois University Carbondale) to discuss the arrangements and organization for the upcoming workshop at the American Probation and Parole AssociationÕs 48th Annual Training in New York City, scheduled for August 2023.
6/15: Call with Allen Godfrey (Director of Field Services, Minnesota Department of Corrections) to begin discussing the planning and objectives for TA and the working group.
6/26: Call with Brian Mirasolo (Deputy Commissioner, Field Services, Massachusetts Probation Service) and Dianne Fasano (Acting Commissioner, Massachusetts Probation Service) to initiate the TA opportunity and determine next steps.
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