TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2017

Multimedia Plenary: Tribal Justice
All are invited to join this interactive session for a screening of the documentary Tribal Justice, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the film maker and one of the judges featured in the documentary. Light refreshments will be provided.

In Tribal Justice, two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities and create a more positive future for youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are modeling restorative systems that are working. Mainstream courts across the country begin to take notice.

The filmmakers have graciously allowed us to share the documentary with the Challenge Network. You only have access for a week, so don't wait-you can use the link and the password below. (You can also find out more about Tribal Justice at www.makepeaceproductions.com/tribaljustice)

Link to view the film: vimeo.com/204822439 (password: September2017)

You can also watch the panel discussion.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017

Strategy Discussion Groups
   Bail and Pretrial Release
   Case Processing
   Community Engagement
      Session Slides
   Cross-Systems Frequent Users/High Service Users
   Data Capacity/IT Systems
   Deflection/Diversion
   Post-Disposition Community Supervision
   Racial and Ethnic Disparities
   Risk Assessment Instrument Validation & Implementation
 

Roundtable Discussions
   Addressing Violations of Terms of Release
   Impact of the Opioid Epidemic
   Intersection of Immigration and Criminal Justice
   Challenges and Opportunities of Litigation with National Implications
   Issues for Jurisdictions with Large Jails
   Issues for Jurisdictions with Small/Rural Jails
   Political Leadership on Bail Policy and Legislation
   Taking a “Second Look” at Pretrial Decisions through Special Dockets
   Victims' Perspective and Engagement in Jail Reform
   Women in Jails
 

Case Processing: Understanding the Data
Court personnel, local site coordinators, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify key data elements in case processing analyses
• Understand how to examine the data to identify case processing issues
• Identify an appropriate course of action for addressing case processing issues

Session Slides 

Coordinating Efforts on the Opioid Epidemic
All site representatives and criminal justice stakeholders are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Engage other criminal justice system actors, public health organizations, and the community to create collaborative approaches to the opioid crisis
• Leverage existing community-based resources for effective opioid addiction treatment and reduce the time people with opioid addictions spend in jail
• Have a working knowledge of the model practices being used across the country

Moving Beyond Low Hanging Fruit:Using Data to Reach More Ambitious Jail Reduction Goals
Criminal justice agency leads, SJC project directors or managers, criminal justice coordinating council staff, researchers and data analysts are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Understand how to think ambitiously about jail population reduction
• Consider how their jurisdiction might use data to take a comprehensive look at the drivers of their jail population
• Have some ideas about where they might look for opportunities to increase the impact of their strategies
• Understand some of the challenges of implementation

New Partners in Community Engagement
All site representatives and criminal justice stakeholders are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the two new partner organizations supporting the Challenge Network on the issue of community engagement
• Identify peers and SMEs in the Challenge Network who can provide resources and/or support on community engagement efforts
• Consider new strategies for strengthening community engagement as part of their plan

Restorative Justice: An Introduction
(*This session will be limited to 25 participants, due to the experiential nature of the session)
Justice system professionals interested in exploring restorative approaches to harm, and those interested in connecting restorative justice and community engagement are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to

• Through a short restorative justice experience, participants will understand how a restorative justice process feels different from the traditional system
• Participants will understand the basic tenets of restorative justice
• Participants will brainstorm how it can apply to multiple decision points, improve community engagement, and make a fundamental shift in their approach to reform

Session Slides 

The Court’s Role in Improving Community Trust through Engagement
Sites interested in lessons from the court's experience with community engagement or in ways to involve the courts in their community projects are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role court leaders play in building community engagements
• Devise strategies for moving from "listening" to "collaboration"
• Adapt tools courts have used to engage minority and low income communities

Session Slides 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017

Creating Housing Options: A Key To Success for Every Strategy
All SJC sites addressing the issue of housing challenges for justice-involved persons, inclusive of persons with behavioral health disorders and without, are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Have an improved understanding of the Housing First model
• Understand how Housing First is utilized in Milwaukee County, as well as its impact/outcomes
• Better understand how the Multnomah County Stabilization and Treatment Program (STP) is a collaboration between probation, mental health, and a Housing First CBO that provides temporary/transitional housing for persons with mental illness who are on probation
• Learn how Multnomah County is working to implement a shelter with a mental health component to it

Session Slides 

Developing Data Dashboards and Advancing Data-Driven Decision Making
Any sites that are considering, developing or have developed and started using dashboards are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Better understand the purposes of using dashboards
• Identify benefits and challenges to using dashboards
• Understand what types of decisions can be informed through dashboards
• Know which peer sites can be used as technical experts in developing dashboards

Session Slides 

Leadership and Change Management
Local project directors and anyone responsible for leading change efforts are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Use active listening skills
• Plan for managing uncertainty
• Use a communication plan

Session Slides
 

Leading Systemic Pretrial Improvements: Intersectionality and Efficiencies
Leaders who are engaged in the intersectionality of pretrial systems and the jail reduction outcomes are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Understand the full circumference of pretrial systems and the web of interactions of subtle, yet powerful intersections
• Analyze the status of their pretrial decision points within their system
• Identify opportunities for streamlining efficiencies for improvement system outcomes
• Create actions to engage in effective and collaborative approaches for nuanced system intersections to improve outcomes

Session Slides 

Overcoming Adversarial Relationships to Achieve Authentic Collaboration
All criminal justice stakeholders, with a specific interest in system actors who have traditionally adversarial positions are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Come to the table with reasonable goals and points of agreement
• Enlist outside experts to facilitate conversations
• Use data to promote stakeholder buy-in
• Communicate with the media
• Commit to culture change
• Be responsive to respective constituencies

Session Slides 

Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Jurisdiction’s Journey to Overcoming Challenges between the System and Community
System Stakeholders interested in learning about system/community collaborative efforts to address racial and ethnic disparities and how to overcome common challenges are the target audience for this workshop. By the end of the session, participants will learn how community and system stakeholders in a jurisdiction overcame tensions and common challenges between system and community stakeholders that often stall racial and ethnic disparity efforts.