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The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department (PD) requested two Blue Courage: The Heart and Mind of the Guardian trainings and one Blue Courage Academy. Blue Courage, Inc. was selected to fulfill the request and provided the two two-day trainings on April 12 - 13, 2017 and May 4 - 5, 2017, to 62 law enforcement personnel, and the four-day academy on June 6 - 9, 2017 to 20 law enforcement personnel in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision requested training on implicit bias. This engagement was referred to the OJP Diagnostic Center in January 2017.

The American Bar Association requested technical assistance in updating the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System document. The request was denied by BJA and not fulfilled by BJA NTTAC.

The Kansas City Missouri Police Departments Regional Training Academy had the opportunity to bring in the Blue Courage course for a select few of our members. All who attended found great value in the course and the messages that are given. Due to current fiscal constraints, we are not able to fund this training on a recurring basis during the current or coming fiscal year.

Our Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision (and staff) is interested in training on implicit bias.

The ABA seeks to update the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. The ABA Ten Principles are the most influential statement on public defense today:

• States and nations build and improve defender systems using the Principles.

• The Principles guide U.S.D.O.J. public defense grant making.

• The United Nations modeled global standards on the Principles.

As Attorney General Eric Holder has said, the Ten Principles give “shape to our aspirations” and “quite literally set the standard, and developed a framework, for progress.”

Anti-terrorism awareness training for state, local, and tribal law enforcement.

The Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association (MASCA) draws our membership from correctional professionals in all fields of institutional and community corrections as well as juvenile justice agencies in the states listed above. MASCA holds an annual training conference to provide speakers and workshops on a variety of topics of interest to our membership. This year the annual conference will be held in Ocean City, MD, from June 12 to 15, 2016. We are requesting a speaker or panel to discuss issues related to human trafficking.

Protect United States of America.

Michael Rempel presented on lessons learned from drug courts and implications for prosecutorial practices to an audience of black prosecutors interested in socially and racially just prosecutorial policymaking.