The Evidence-Based Professionals' Newsletter - July 2016

Welcome to July's issue of The Evidence-Based Professionals' Newsletter.  Here is your collection of relevant articles, grant resources and dates for our upcoming events.

Articles & Updates

Evidence-Based Criminal Justice and Human Services:

• Efforts in Ohio to reduce number of people with mental illness in jail
• Reducing barriers to employment for people released from prison
• Medicaid coverage for people released from prison
• The Way Forward In Reentry - Loretta Lynch, 83rd Attorney General of the United States
• Building reentry mentoring through social media
• Justice reinvestment in Georgia
• Justice Reinvestment in Rhode Island
• National Reentry Resource Center Facts & Trends

Juvenile Justice:

• States look to keep youth out of adult criminal court
• Embracing what works in juvenile justice

Substance Abuse:

• Deaths involving heroin more than tripled from 2010-2014
• One million people use heroin in the United States
• Study finds traumatic childhood experiences linked to substance abuse in adulthood:
• Performance enhancing supplements popular among teens
• Risk factors for teen suicide

Grants:

• 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 opportunities from SAMHSA
• Social Innovation Fund

Webinars and Podcasts:

• Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders:
• Mental health courts and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• What works to combat poverty

 Our Next Evidence-Based Events

Webinars & Webcasts

• Managing Employee Performance: Core Skills for "New & Less Tenured" Managers & Supervisors
  Jul-15 or 29, 2016

• Effective Employee Performance Appraisals: How To Prep, Write & Deliver Accurate & Timely Performance Reviews Every-time!
  Jul-22 or August 5, 2016

Workshops & Conference

• Employment-Focused Workforce and Career Services: Helping Individuals Regain Employment
  August 9 - 10, 2016 | Atlanta, GA

• Becoming an Evidence-Based Organization: Core Skills & Planning for Implementation
  August 10 - 12, 2016 | Atlanta, GA

• Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner: Core & Advance Skills for The Professionals
  August 10 - 12, 2016 | Atlanta, GA

• Vicarious Trauma & Traumatic Stress: Its Impacts & How to Recognize & Manage It At Your Agency To Enhance Services Excellence
  August 11 - 12, 2016 | Atlanta, GA

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