I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the Research Symposium in St. Louis! Before you book your flight home, I wanted to make sure that you noticed the working meetings from 1:15 to 2:15 on Friday afternoon. If you're invited to one of those sessions, please make your travel arrangements so that you'll be able to stay!
For all SJC Site Practitioners and Research Consortium Members: Please join us for a session that will focus on research needs at the local level. A cornerstone of the Safety and Justice Challenge is to foster true partnerships with the sites that have chosen to embark on the journey of reform, and while the research agenda guides much of the SJC's work, it is critical to involve site voices as well. For this session, site representatives should come prepared to discuss the types of research they would most like to see in their sites, in addition to describing what has been most helpful/unhelpful in partnering with researchers to achieve goals.
Consortium members will be asked to describe what types of research align most with their organizational missions, and what they have found to be most helpful in moving research forward when working with sites. Finally, funding organizations in attendance will be asked to outline the types of research they are currently seeking to fund, and how this might align with the ideas described by both sites and Consortium members.
For Research Consortium Reviewers: The primary goal of this working meeting is to determine SJC research priorities for 2024-2025 and to debrief on Symposium learnings and key takeaways. CUNY ISLG will lead a discussion recapping the priorities set at last year's Convening and taking stock of progress towards those goals, and reviewers will be updated on the new legacy synthesis work. Finally, participants of this working meeting will be asked to assist CUNY ISLG and the MacArthur Foundation to carve out the long-term legacy vision of the SJC with a particular focus on sustainability of efforts and leveraging national data collected to further the mission of research-driven change after the sunset of the initiative.
We hope you'll grab your boxed lunch and join us for these conversations; your input is critical as we design the future of this work. if you have any questions, please reach out to me at Jennifer.Ferone@islg.cuny.edu or Diana Spahia at Diana.Spahia@islg.cuny.edu.
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Jennifer Ferone
Associate Research Director
CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
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