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We are requesting training and team building in the Project HOPE Model, from Jude Alm (the creator of the program model in Hawaii) and the speical team from Pepperdine University. We are implementing Project HOPE in the Worcester Courthouse and this training is essential to the effective implementation of this evidence based model. This is a unique opportunity to have the nation's leading experts conduct the training.

GLT needs to develop a wellness-based strategic and comprehensive justice system, built upon the strength of individual components and bringing together our young Public Safety Department (established 2011) and Tribal Court (established 2010) with our more mature Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. Each of the three departments, Public Safety, the Court and HHS serves very specific needs of our citizens; yet there is not a mechanism in place to coordinate services.

The Osborne Association will receive TA in a community planning process during the transformation of 1511 Fulton Avenue from a prison into a reentry facility. This assistance will allow the Osborne Association to engage community members in the planning of programs and services, collect data on neighborhood needs
and assets, and develop partnerships with local community organizations.

We recently received 7 Habits training with Michal Nila. We are hoping to now recieve Blue Courage Training. We are quite interested in the 4 day train the trainer course. We would like to set up a 2 day course which would allow approximately 25 students to view this training and then select 10 of those members to go on to receive the certification course for the next 2 days. Please note that the members we select for the certification course will be those members that already received the 7 Habits course.

We have had a major increase in gun crimes and gang activity. We are seeking assistance to stop the violence.

The Ohio Parole Board has discretionary releasing authority over a portion of the prison population that is comprised of offenders serving sentences for the most serious crimes. Specifically, approximately 50% of the offenders heard are convicted of a Homicide offense including Aggravated Murder, Murder and Manslaughter. Another 30% of those offenders heard by the Board are convicted of a sex offense. In it release decision making, the Board utilizes a risk instrument (ORAS) that is predictive of the general risk of an offender to reoffend.

DoJ Findings of 12 Sep 2012, posted here:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/September/12-crt-1111.html
show patterns and practices of civil rights violations by the Portland Police Bureau.

Training of newly assigned Police Detectives in the investigation of financial crimes, frauds, counterfeiting, ID Theft, and related fraud investigations.

Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) requests TA for the implementation of a probation model of community supervision that employs “swift-and-certain” sanctions as established by law in 2012. This assistance will allow the DOC to develop outcome and fidelity measures that inform an evidence-based response to violations of probation. It will also assist the DOC in its efforts to build a more integrated case-management model, balancing cognitive behavioral interventions with swift and certain sanctions.

This engagement is to provide the 40-hour training entitled “Peer Support for Public Safety” for the Montgomery County, Md. Police Department by William Hogewood of Crisis Associates LLC. The Montgomery County Police Department’s Peer Support Team has been in existence since 2001 and aids department employees and their families who are involved in traumatic personal and job-related incidents. The training is needed to provide guidance on peer support related functions such as communication techniques, reading body language, nature of trauma etc.