State Administering Agencies (SAAs) play a pivotal role in developing and implementing state and local criminal justice policy. SAAs conduct strategic planning, administer federal and state grants, and evaluate program effectiveness. In total, SAAs manage over $1.2 billion annually in federal grants, including the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, Violence Against Women Act STOP, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and Victims of Crime Act funds.
Sustainability is a challenge for criminal justice reforms. Too many programs operate in silos. Local governments adopt practices supported by federal or foundation money, but do not always share lessons learned with other localities or involve the SAA or state legislature to help ensure continued funding after the initial grant ends.
In their role as state policymaker and convener, SAAs provide a range of training and technical assistance to local criminal justice agencies and other practitioners. This assistance frequently consists of in-person and online training seminars in evidence-based practices as well as grants management. A number of SAAs have developed resources to support the implementation of EBPs by their sub-recipients, including:
• Colorado’s Evidence Based Practices Implementation for Capacity
• Ohio’s Consortium of Crime Science
• Illinois’ Adult Redeploy
• Oregon’s Knowledge Bank
• Arizona’s Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Initiative
• Pennsylvania’s County Criminal Justice Advisory Boards and Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Center of Excellence
This Focus Group was held on July 30, 2017 at the NCJA Advisory Council Meeting in conjunction with the National Forum on Criminal Justice. Four SAAs: Andy LeFevre of Arizona; Karhlton Moore of Ohio; Joe Thome of Colorado; and Mike Schmidt of Oregon presented on their states’ respective programs. Participants in these breakout sessions were then given an opportunity to ask questions and discuss challenges to implement similar programs in their own states. The goals of these focus groups are to: 1) identify effective strategies of engaging local criminal justice agencies in implementing evidence- based programs through state level resources, and 2) discern how best to engage SAAs as peer mentors to other SAAs interested in replicating these resources.
A summary report about these discussions was produced and finalized on August 4, 2018.
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This event was held during the NCJA Advisory Council meeting at the 2017 National Forum on Criminal Justice in Long Beach, California.
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This event was held in conjunction with the NCJA Advisory Council Meeting at the 2017 National Forum on Criminal Justice. One of the goals of this TTA is to encourage replication of state-level initiatives in order to support local criminal justice agencies in the implementation of evidence-based programs. Andy LeFevre of Arizona, Karhlton Moore of Ohio, Joe Thome of Colorado and Mike Schmidt of Oregon presented on their states’ respective programs. Participants in the breakout groups were given an opportunity to ask questions about these programs, as well as address challenges to implementing similar programs in their state. A discussion followed with the larger group about TTA that can help the under-resourced states stand up similar projects. A summary report of the breakout discussions is was produced.
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