Monthly for Evidence-Based Professionals

Welcome! This issue features your collection of relevant articles, webcasts, grant resources, and our upcoming events.

 - Pathways for agency & personal change event. Starts in 10-Days! "Become an Evidence-Based Human & Justice Professional & Organization" | Aug. 16-18, 2017 | Atlanta, GA. (Book seats now)

 - By request, Joyfields' "MI Training" hits the road! - Billings, MT; Fargo, ND; Des Moines, IA; Boise, ID; Burlington, VT, and more!! (Book seats near you)

Articles & Stories

Evidence-Based Human & Justice Services:

• Reports highlight efforts to improve reentry and reduce recidivism throughout the country:

• Thriving non-profit focuses on housing stability and evidence-based approaches

Youth & Family:

• Nevada passes juvenile justice system reform act:

• North Carolina approves “raise the age” statute:

• Working successfully with funders of youth programming:

• Interacting with kids in the juvenile justice system:

• Transforming juvenile justice by partnering with families

• Reports examine juvenile justice involvement and youth homelessness:

  LGBTQ Youth Report
  Working With Girls Report
  Principles for Change Report

• Study finds 19 children are shot each day in the U.S.:

• Tow Youth Justice Institute Newsletter:

Substance Use::

• Study finds cost of heroin use in U.S. tops $51 billion:
• Opioid epidemic driving up death rate among 25-44 age group:
• Drug overdose deaths increased 19% in 2016:
• Study finds higher imprisonment rates do not curb drug abuse:

Webcasts, Videos, Podcasts:

• When Helping Hurts

• Two-Part SAMHSA Webinar Series for Faith-Based and Community Leaders on the Opioid Crisis

  Part One: Understanding the Opioid Crisis: What's at the Heart of the Matter?

  Wednesday, August 9, 2017 | Noon–1 p.m. Eastern Time

  Part Two: There Is Hope: Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention

  Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | Noon–1 p.m. Eastern Time
   

• Medicaid Coverage and Financing of MAT, Current Status, and Promising Practices
  Thursday, August 17, 2017 | 3:30–5 p.m. Eastern Time

• Responding to the 2017 Second Chance Act Reentry Grant Program:

• Innovative partnerships in child support and reentry:

• Developing a community-wide approach to responding to people with mental illness:

• Process measures for connecting the justice system and behavioral health:

• Process analysis and inventory of services for people with mental illness:

• Engaging employers in hiring people with criminal records:

Grants & Funding:

• Current funding opportunities from U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs:
  Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, etc.
• Current funding from SAMHSA:

Upcoming Events

• • Employee Performance Appraisals: How To Prep, Write & Deliver On-Time Reviews Every Time!(CE Training Hours - 2)
    August 11, 2017 | Online Webcast
     
    • How to Become an Evidence-Based Professional & Organization: Core & Advance Skills for Human & Justice Services
      (CE Training Hours - 20)
      August 16 - 18, 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia

    • Motivational Interviewing: Core Skills for Durable Behavioral Change
      (CE Training Hours - 13)

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