The Evidence-Based Professionals' Monthly

Welcome to your monthly for evidence based professionals. This issue features your collection of relevant articles, webcasts, grant resources, performance tools and our upcoming events.

* Summer 2017 class forming for Evidence-Based "Pathways" for Human & Justice Services - Certificate Program | Aug. 16-18, 2017 | Atlanta, GA. Reserve your slots now. (Download Brochure)

Evidence-Based Human & Justice Services:

• Performance Specialists Like Trump’s Management Agenda:
• Trump Budget’s Blessing of Program Evidence Could Cut Two Ways
• A look into Kentucky’s court-supervised class
• Goodwill Celebrates 115 Years Of Social Enterprise:
• Lifting kids to college:
• The importance of housing stability:
• Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives implementing fair hiring practices:
• Montana governor signs justice reinvestment bills:
• Georgia governor signs justice reinvestment bill:
• Evaluation fuels Idaho correctional reform:
• Stigma of criminal record fades as employers get desperate:
• Justice reinvestment in Arkansas:

Youth & Family:

• Texas Tries (Again) to Reboot Its Troubled Child Welfare System:
• How States Are Trying to Root Out Welfare Fraud:
• Necessary ingredients for youth employment:
• Addressing mental and behavioral health of youth in the juvenile justice system:
• Access to juvenile defense representation:
• A National snapshot of states' failure to protect children's right to counsel
• Developments in “raise the age”:
• Using evidence on adolescent brain development:
• Ohio Supreme Court reverses landmark decision on mandatory transfer of youth to adult court:

Upcoming Events

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• Becoming an Evidence-Based Organization: Core Skills & Planning for Implementation
  August 16 - 18, 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia
   
• Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner: Core & Advance Skills for Working With Clients
  August 16 - 18, 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia
   
• Implementation for Evidence-Based Organizations: Advance Skills for Strategic Planning & Implementation
  August 17 - 18, 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia

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Substance Use:

• Study finds family members can play lifesaving role in overdoses:
• NIH partners with drug companies to create new addiction treatments:
• Study finds rise in teen marijuana-related visits to ER after legalization:
• Drivers killed in crashes more likely to have used drugs than alcohol:

Webcasts, Videos, Podcasts:

• Journey toward improving outcomes:
• Integrating best practices from corrections and workforce systems:
• Innovative partnerships for child services and reentry:
• PBS documentary “First Degree”:
• Developing community-wide responses to mental illness:
• Financial stability after incarceration:

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Publications

• SAMHSA Publication - Focus on Prevention

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: