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NCCHC and the National Sheriffs’ Association present a resource to support jail administrators in providing effective treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder and helping to halt the opioid epidemic in the United States.

Nov 2018

NCCHC and the National Sheriffs’ Association present a resource to support jail administrators in providing effective treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder and helping to halt the opioid epidemic in the United States.
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Cooperative Agreement - Pretrial Justice Curricula Revision and Development

Dec 2018

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under Fiscal Year 2019 for the revision, conversion, and or development of instructional materials for three existing courses of instruction for NIC’s Community Services Division. These courses are used to build competency and capacity of pretrial justice decision-makers and professionals to make and support legal and evidence based pretrial decisions.
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Cooperative Agreement - Conducting Prison Security Audits

Dec 2018
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under Fiscal Year 2019 for the coordination, facilitation and management of three security audit partnership programs with measured remediation support. The project will be for a 12-month period and will be carried out in conjunction with the NIC Prisons Division.
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Cooperative Agreement - 2019 National Sheriffs Institute

Dec 2018
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. Work under this cooperative agreement will involve facilitation of 1 offering of the week long National Sheriff’s Institute (NSI) in FY’19 at the National Corrections Academy in Aurora, Colorado. The successful awardee will have the resources to identify and select first term sheriffs, disseminate and collect pre-class assignments and testing, provide instructors for each offering and collect and evaluate participant feedback provided by NSI participants. This project will be a collaborative venture with the NIC Jails Division.
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Cooperative Agreement - Resource Guide “Guidelines for Developing a Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee” Revision

Dec 2018

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year 2019 to revise and update the guidelines for developing a Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee publication.
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Cooperative Agreement - Facilitating Behavior Change with Persons under Community Supervision

Dec 2018

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year 2019 to develop training resources for front-line community supervision staff to help facilitate behavior change.
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Cooperative Agreement - Building Capacity to Support Legal and Evidence Based Pretrial Decisions at the State and Local Level

Dec 2018

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to provide training for pretrial decision-makers throughout the United States, that is aligned with NIC’s publication’s A Framework for Pretrial Justice, Fundamentals of Bail, Money as a Criminal Justice Stakeholder, and Measuring What Matters.

Sustaining Systems Change: Findings from a Transition from Jail to Community Initiative Stakeholder Survey

Dec 2018

The TJC Initiative seeks to improve public safety and to enhance the success of individuals returning to the community from local jails through implementation of an innovative, evidence-informed transition models.
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Cooperative Agreement - Veteran Informed Care Training on Responsivity (VICTOR) – Phase II

Nov 2018

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to pilot test the VICTOR curriculum in a regional training delivery
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Pilot sites for the Family Connections in Correctional Facilities Project

Nov 2018

Pilot sites for the Family Connections in Correctional Facilities Project 

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