Can you defend your pretrial practice? 3 points to consider
To make an informed and defensible decision about your agency’s use of an assessment tool, here are the top three questions to consider.
The No. 1 Time-Saver Most Agencies Miss
It’s time to re-think your assessment strategy. Even the most assessment-savvy agencies are losing precious minutes on non-essential assessment questions, and saving your team that extra five or more minutes is easier than you think.
Risk Level vs. Supervision Level: Common Misconceptions
Risk level and supervision level don’t match up on a clean 1:1 basis, and it’s up to supervision professionals to understand the nuances of each to make appropriate supervision decisions.
Problem-Solving Courts: Show Us the Money
Treatment courts are the single most successful intervention in our nation’s history for leading people living with substance use and mental health disorders out of the justice system and into lives of recovery and stability.
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Four Ways to Prioritize Your Team’s Mental Health Right Now GalleryFour Ways to Prioritize Your Team’s Mental Health Right Now
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Four Ways to Prioritize Your Team’s Mental Health Right Now
As you’re working to reopen, reschedule, or ramp up operations, here are a few ways you can help your team stay healthy and do their best work.
Stop! Collaborate and Listen … for Effective Pretrial Reform
When it comes to pretrial reform, every jurisdiction in every state is facing different challenges, but one truth is universal: Success takes cooperation.
The Trouble with Validation
Validation. You’ve heard about it over the years. You know it’s a best practice. But can you explain it to your agency’s stakeholders?
Check Your Team’s Assessment Accuracy with Ongoing QA
There are two critical parts of this process, either of which can make or break the accuracy of your assessment results: the assessment itself, and the way your team uses it.
Feet hit pavement. Now what?
Over the past three decades, we’ve seen hundreds of different takes on discharge/release/reentry planning, and we’ve learned that success really comes down to a few key factors.
Planning for Validation? Here’s How to Start
Even if the assessment tool you’re using has been validated on other populations in other jurisdictions, you don’t know if the tool is really working for YOUR population in YOUR jurisdiction unless you validate it using local data.
