This article summarizes a recent report from the Prisoner Reentry Institute of John Jay College of Criminal Justice on gender and criminal justice reform. The report, Women In Justice: Gender and the Pathway to Jail , argues that “reforms must be gender-responsive, faithful to the principles of...
Last week, it was announced that the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation has recognized the Women’s Re-entry Assessment and Programming (WRAP) initiative from Chester County, Pennsylvania as a semifinalist for this year’s Innovations in American Government Awards. County Commissioner...
Published by the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, this Toolkit was developed to assist correctional professionals and those in the criminal legal system working with survivors of domestic violence. “Corrections officers can avoid or minimize crisis within the institution...
Recordings of these webinars can be found on the Justice Clearinghouse site: http://justiceclearinghouse.com/see-all/ The Justice Clearinghouse is presenting these upcoming free webinars on the topics of Crisis Intervention, Stress Management, and Trauma. Webinar Description: Part I - A Life of Stress...
From the Women’s Services Practice Improvement Collaborative (WSPIC), this video highlights core treatment guidelines developed by WSPIC and extracted from the larger group of Treatment Guidelines for Gender Responsive Treatment of Women with Substance Use Disorders. While all the treatment guidelines...
Published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach , describes the “concept of trauma and offers a framework for how an organization, system, or service sector can become trauma-informed.” Highlighted from...
The National Institute of Corrections responds to thousands of requests for corrections-specific information every year. When we get questions that we think others might find of interest, we add the answers to our Knowledgebase Collection . An NIC Knowledgebase is comprised of current, concise research...
You are invited to download a groundbreaking report, Trauma-informed Approaches: Federal Activities and Initiatives —the second and highly anticipated Working Document Report of the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma. Completed on September 30, 2013, the report documents the projects...
You are invited to download a groundbreaking report, Trauma-informed Approaches: Federal Activities and Initiatives —the second and highly anticipated Working Document Report of the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma. Completed on September 30, 2013, the report documents the projects...