Criminal Justice Advocacy/Support

BJA will identify a provider to facilitate JRI peer-to-peer technical assistance events. Similar events were held in February 2015 to share ideas, resources, and tools from sites involved in JRI efforts. This TA will expand those events to more sites involved in JRI activity.

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is requesting funding support for staff time needed to plan, organize, and host a two-day institute for governors’ criminal justice policy advisors and directors of state administering agencies.

I would like my staff of 50 Instructors trained in the Blue Courage program.

The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas requests one Blue Courage Training for 30 police executives as an introduction to the Blue Courage program. The participants will evaluate the program, and if positively received, the two-day Blue Courage program will be added as part of the 5-day, 40-hour mandated professional development week of the Texas Police Chief Leadership Series. As a result, LEMI will then proceed with the Train-the-Trainer course of Blue Courage to qualify instructors to teach.

The Notre Dame College PD requests one Blue Courage training for approximately 30 participants.

The Fairfax County Police Department, requests T3 training. T3 is the only police training program that simultaneously addresses the perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions of social interaction. It integrates the latest scientific research on managing social encounters with validated training techniques. The training will last for a half day (four hours) and not have more than 40 participants.

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking technical assistance in creating and designing an investigative database for the Wayne County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force (WCSAKTF). The grant would provide for an expert in data analysis and database management to aid in the merging of several existing databases created and maintained by law enforcement, prosecutors, and lab personnel.

The Sandoval County District Court would like to receive some training and guidance with our pretrial services program. A general training in the research recommended functioning of how the program should be run as well as some support in the purchase or development of our own PTS risk assessment tool is very much needed.

We are seeking training for first-line supervisors in the areas of management, leadership, organizational efficiency, etc. Formal, detailed request to follow.

My police unit is part of a much larger collaborative effort called the Kansas City No Violence Alliance. Kansascitynova.org... We are currently working to implement a Byrne Grant project in a very violent corridor of our city's urban core. Four officers and myself will be working in this corridor with community based organizations to implement a focused deterrence policing strategy and to apply CPTED principles to a commercial corridor revitalization effort.