Resource Links

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American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF)

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on education, youth, and workforce policy at the national, state, and local levels.

American Probation and Parole Association (APPA)

As the voice of the community corrections industry, the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) serves as the field’s leading professional membership association. Our work is supported by thousands of passionate members throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as other countries actively involved in strengthening community corrections work. APPA has members at all levels of government and the private sector, including: Community corrections professionals, service providers, libraries and educators, research students, volunteers, concerned citizens, corporations, public policy advocates, and others with an interest in criminal and juvenile justice.

Association of Probation Officers of Wielkopolska

The Association, from a local organization of 49 probation officers from the Wielkopolska district (1999), has grown to an organization of 260 members (2011) from 40 district courts located in 8 districts: Elbląg, Kalisz, Konin, Koszalin, Legnica, Słupsk, Wielkopolskie and Zielona Góra. Since the beginning of the existence of the Wielkopolska Association of Probation Officers, it has been an organization that, with the voice of its representatives, speaks without unnecessary emotions about the pros and cons of probation officers' work. It has become a reliable and competent partner in creating a new image of the probation service not only in Poland but also bordering areas.

Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Their mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level. The Brookings Institution traces its beginnings to 1916, when a group of leading reformers founded the Institute for Government Research (IGR), the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level.

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) was created in 1984 to reduce violent crime, create safer communities, and reform our Nation’s criminal justice system. BJA strengthens the Nation’s criminal justice system and helps America’s state, local, and tribal jurisdictions reduce and prevent crime, reduce recidivism, and promote a fair and safe criminal justice system. BJA focuses its programmatic and policy efforts on providing a wide range of resources, including training and technical assistance, to law enforcement, courts, corrections, treatment, reentry, justice information sharing, and community-based partners to address chronic and emerging criminal justice challenges nationwide.

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice. It is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies throughout the Executive Branch, agencies whose activities are predominantly focused on the collection, compilation, processing, or analysis of information for statistical purposes. The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. BJS also provides financial and technical support to state, local, and tribal governments to improve both their statistical capabilities and the quality and utility of their criminal history records.

Canadian Training Institute (CTI)

CTI is a National Voluntary Organization that offers a unique service in support of safer, healthy communities. More than five thousand individuals have received certified training through CTI. We help government agencies and corporations create safe customer service environments. We help staff members and volunteers in residential and related programs address family violence, mental health, addictions, ex-offenders, and the physically or mentally challenged. Their goal is to contribute to the development of knowledge, skills and services that reduce social conflict and promote active participation that builds healthy individuals, agencies, workplaces and communities. Our passion is to help people who help people.

Center on Juvenile/Criminal Justice (CJCJ)

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems. In pursuit of this mission, CJCJ provides direct community services, policy research and advocacy work, and public education efforts to promote justice. In unison our work promotes a balanced and humane criminal justice system designed to reduce incarceration and enhance long-term public safety.

Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN)

The Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN) works throughout the year to develop relationships with federal partners and non-governmental agencies in order to inform, guide and provide input around the pressing issues facing the field of community corrections. Our network has released a variety of products, including a position paper “Safe and Smart Ways to Solve America’s Correctional Challenges,” a survey of community corrections professionals, and a myths and facts series, in addition to informing the field through radio shows, conference workshops, webinars, and broadcasts.

Community Justice Exchange (CJE)

Community Justice Exchange (CJE) develops, shares and experiments with tactical interventions, strategic organizing practices, and innovative organizing tools to end all forms of criminalization, incarceration, surveillance, supervision, and detention. We provide support to community-based organizations across the country that are experimenting with bottom-up interventions that contest the current operation and function of the criminal legal and immigration detention systems. CJE produces tools and resources for organizers to creatively tackle multiple drivers of criminalization and incarceration— including, but not limited to, money bail, court fees and fines, probation and parole, pretrial detention & supervision, and immigration detention & supervision.

Community Resources for Justice (CRJ)

Community Resources for Justice (CRJ) as it exists today is the result of several mergers of organizations rooted in different aspects of social activism. One branch focused on preventing crime, while another undertook providing direct aid to incarcerated men and women and to newly released former prisoners and later to adults with developmental disabilities.

Conference of European Probation (CEP)

Conference of European Probation (CEP) aims to promote the social inclusion of offenders through community sanctions and measures such as probation, community service, mediation and conciliation. CEP is committed to enhance the profile of probation and to improve professionalism in this field, on a national and a European level.

Correctional Management Institute of Texas (CMIT)

The Correctional Management Institute of Texas (CMIT) is charged with developing and delivering professional education, management development, and issues specific training programs for personnel in juvenile and adult community and institutional corrections agencies.

Corrections.com

Corrections.com is the single most recognizable brand online for the global community of corrections. Award-winning daily news is at the core of our business, with the most comprehensive database of vendor intelligence in corrections. Together Corrections.com‘s staff and audience members work as a team to improve communication, notification and collaboration among professionals worldwide. By building a place where professionals live, learn and lend, Corrections.com serves a valuable role in the professionalism and growth of this important and challenging industr

Eisenhower Foundation

The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation is the Washington, D.C.-based continuation of two presidential commissions — the 1967-1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission) and the 1968-1969 National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (the Eisenhower Violence Commission). The Foundation is devoted to reducing inequality and poverty, enhancing opportunity and justice, redistributing money and power, and moderating the corruption and greed present in American democracy. The Foundation replicates and communicates scientifically evaluated, multiple solution successes to problems experienced by the poor, racial minorities, the jobless, the undereducated, youth, families, persons leaving prison and America’s beleaguered inner cities

International Community Corrections Association (ICCA)

The International Community Corrections Association (ICCA) aspires to change the public perception of justice-involved individuals, end the overuse of incarceration and correctional supervision, and achieve a just society. They promote public safety through evidence-informed practices for justice-involved individuals through collaborative community-based treatment services, research and advocacy.

International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA)

The International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) is a global organization focused on advancing professional and humane corrections world-wide. Over 70 countries participate in ICPA through membership, conference presentations, Chapter and Network initiatives. Association impact includes more progressive legislative and administrative policies, increased number of corrections staff receiving professional training, assistance in strategic planning with a linkage to operational excellence, and access to global trends, events, and other relevant information on ICPA’s website.

Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium (CJTEC)

The Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium (CJTEC) is a program of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), which uses research-based methodologies to enhance the capabilities of law enforcement, courts, and corrections agencies.

Manhattan Institute (MI)

The Manhattan Institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.

National Institute of Corrections (NIC)

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is the only federal agency with a legislative mandate (Public Law 93-41 5) to provide specialized services to corrections from a national perspective. NIC is recognized by other federal agencies for its unique role and quality services. Its leadership is evidenced by the numerous partnerships and interagency agreements targeted to provide correctional services and training.

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) focuses on research, development, and evaluation of crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenge of criminal justice, particularly at local and state levels. NIJ funds research, development, and technology assistance. NIJ also assesses programs, policies, and technologies. NIJ publicizes the research it conducts and the evaluation findings through conferences, reports, and the media.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, Public Law 93–415, as amended, established the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support local and state efforts to prevent delinquency and improve juvenile justice systems. A component of the Office of Justice Programs within the U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP works to prevent and respond to youth delinquency and protect children.

Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Legacy Collection

Public/Private Ventures was a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social research and policy organization; it disbanded on July 31, 2012. Its mission was to improve the effectiveness of policies, programs and community initiatives, especially as they affect vulnerable communities. P/PV has archived its publications collection with the Foundation Center's IssueLab so that practitioners can benefit from this knowledge.

Urban Institute

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity. We are a trusted source for changemakers who seek to strengthen decision-making, create inclusive economic growth, and improve the well-being of families and communities. For more than 50 years, Urban has delivered facts that inspire solutions—and this remains our charge today.

U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Under the leadership of the Attorney General of the United States, the Justice Department is composed of more than 40 separate component organizations and more than 115,000 employees. Headquartered at the Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington, D.C., the Department maintains field offices in all states and territories across the United States and in more than 50 countries around the world.