The Vision: To build learning organizations that reduce recidivism through systemic integration of evidence-based principles in collaboration with community and justice partners.

Through this cooperative agreement established in the fall of 2002, NIC joined with CJI to assist two pilot states (Illinois and Maine) in applying an integrated approach to the implementation of evidence-based principles in community corrections. The project model maintains an equal and integrated focus on three domains: the implementation of evidence-based principles, organizational development, and collaboration.

The project’s Integrated Model is based on the premise that successful implementation of evidence-based principles in community corrections can only be achieved when integrated with corresponding organizational development and collaboration. The project is designed to provide a series of needs assessment-based interventions focused on these three components; implementation of these components using an integrated model will assist jurisdictions to better reduce recidivism and increase public safety.

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) joined the initiative in 2004 with evaluation funding for both states through NIC & the Statistical Analysis Centers (SAC) in each site. NIJ's partnership in this initiative marked a new era for collaboration at the federal level to support system-wide reform.

The Integrated Model

- Integrated Model Overview (pdf)
- Evidence-based Practices (pdf)
- Organizational Development (pdf)
- Collaboration (pdf)

Tools

- Intermediate Measures Database Handbook and Instruction Manual- September 2007
- Evidence-Based Principles for Effective Interventions Intermediate Measures for Monitoring Progress - January 2006
- DRAFT Implementation Framework (pdf)
- Quality Assurance Manual (pdf)
- Likert Overview (pdf)
- Implementation Checklist (pdf)
- Effective Interventions - Measurement Matrix (pdf)

Stakeholder Boxed-Set Papers

- Our System of Corrections: Do Jails Play a Role in Improving Offender Outcomes? (pdf)
- Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Recidivism: Implications for State Judiciaries (pdf)
- Legal and Evidence Based Practices: Application of Legal Principles, Laws, and Research to the Field of Pretrial Services (pdf)
- Evidence-Based Practice: Principles for Enhancing Correctional Results in Prisons (pdf)

Presentations

- APPA Winter Institute, Phoenix - February 10-13, 2008
  1. A Tale of Two States: An EBP Report Card (ppt)
  2. Beyond Employee Satisfaction: Addressing the Workforce During System Reform (pdf)
  3. Workforce Document Sample A (pdf)
  4. Workforce Document Sample B (pdf)
  5. Workforce Document Sample C (pdf)
  6. Workforce Document Sample D (pdf)

- ICCA, San Diego - October 31, 2007 (PowerPoint)
- APPA Winter Institute, Atlanta - February 11-12, 2007 (PowerPoint)
- APPA Winter Institute, Anaheim - February 13-16, 2005
- APPA Winter Institute, Austin - January 8-11, 2006
- APPA Summer Institute, Chicago - July 23-26, 2006
- ACA 136th Congress of Correction, Charlotte – August 15, 2006

Project Team

National Institute of Corrections

• Dot Faust, Correctional Program Specialist
• Rachel Mestad, Correctional Program Specialist

Crime and Justice Institute

• Elyse Clawson, Project Director
• Lore Joplin, Project Manager
• Kate Florio, Assistant Project Manager

National Institute of Justice

• Andrew Goldberg

Expert Consultants

• Brad Bogue, Consultant
• Nancy Campbell, Consultant
• Mark Carey, Consultant
• William Woodward, Consultant

Publications

• Using An Integrated Model to Implement Evidence-based Practices in Corrections, published in What Works and Why: Effective Approaches to Reentry (2005), by American Correctional Association (ACA) and International Community Corrections Association (ICCA).

• Implementing Evidence-based Practices in Corrections, published in American Studies Journal (2004).

CJI is a division of Community Resources for Justice