The Evidence-Based Professionals' Monthly - April 2017

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.

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Grants & Funding:

• Trump administration awards grants to states to combat opioid crisis
• Current funding opportunities from U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
• Current funding from SAMHSA

Evidence-Based Human & Justice Services:

• Justice reinvestment and probation performance in Arizona
• Developmentally appropriate responses to young adults in the justice system
• Pennsylvania survey provides strong support for reducing recidivism and reinvesting in public safety
• Reducing the number of people with mental illness in jail
• Survey finds Americans favor rehabilitation over jail time
• Parental incarceration associated with cognitive and non-cognitive deficits
• Study examines impact of criminal background checks on employment and recidivism
• Probation Performance: How Arizona’s County Probation Departments Increased Public Safety While Saving Taxpayers Millions

Youth & Family:

• Study links homelessness with the juvenile justice system
• Treating incarcerated kids like scholars, not criminals
• Research exams effects of “raise the age”

Substance Use:

• Study finds decreasing opioid use among teens
• Study links lower education and unemployment with death by drug use, alcohol, and suicide
• Using synthetic marijuana puts teens at risk of injury or violent behavior
• Study finds addiction treatment more successful if it lasts more than 30 days
• Research finds link between alcohol and suicide

Webcasts, Videos, Podcasts:

• Conducting timely mental health screening and assessment in jails
• Building healthier funder-grantee relationships

Upcoming Events

Attend an Evidence-Based "PATHWAYS" Professional Certification program - Get evaluation, community, and technology also.

• "PATHWAYS" for Justice Services: Evidence-Based Approaches for Working With Re-entering & Justice Involved Citizens
  April 5 - 7, 2017 | New Orleans, LA
  
  
• Evidence-Based "PATHWAYS" Professional Certification Workshops: Core & Advance Skills for Organizations & Practitioners
  August 16 - 18, 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia

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