April in Action: Grow What Matters

Reclaim your momentum for the months ahead

As April wraps up, it is time to audit your most non-renewable asset: time. If the first quarter felt like reactive "fire-fighting," use this month-end intentionally to pivot. Reclaiming your schedule is the only way to ensure your daily actions are building the systems and frameworks that secure your future - both as a professional and as an organization.

Stepping into May, don’t just resolve to work harder. Commit to building what allows you and your team to work smarter. Superior results are never an accident; they are the byproduct of the systems you choose to install today.

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Technology in Prisons: Video Visitation and its Effectiveness

As the goal of the criminal justice system changed from being punitive to correctional in recent decades, more attention has been given to ensuring successful re-entry (Morris and Tonry, 1990; Ward, 2015). Successful reentry can be validated when an offender released from a correctional facility reintegrates into society and does not recidivate. Recidivism is a major contemporary concern of the criminal justice system. When released individuals recidivate, failed reentry becomes expensive as more offenders are sent back to correctional facilities (MBA, 2024).

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• Groundbreaking for Deer Creek Behavioral Health Center
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• SAMHSA Announces More Than $69 Million in Funding Opportunities for Serious Mental Illness and Suicide Prevention Grant Programs
• A Review of Corporal Punishment in the United States
• New substance abuse recovery home expected to open this summer
• Peoria County State’s Attorney says juvenile justice system is ‘going the wrong way’
• A Process and Impact Evaluation of a Federal Drug Court
• WashU app makes substance use recovery more attainable for people without stable housing
• Secretary Kennedy Announces $100 Million Investment in Great American Recovery
• Traveling at 1000 Feet per Second with Unalterable Consequences: How to Decrease Police Officer-Involved Shootings
• A new crisis center for emergency mental health care one step closer to opening in Cuyahoga County
• Metabolic psychiatry targeting metabolic dysregulation in mental health

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