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CJII 2021 Annual Report

CJII has invested in 52 organizations and supported more than 32,000 New Yorkers Today, the City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance (CUNY ISLG) released the 2021 annual report for the Manhattan District Attorney’s $250 million Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII). CUNY ISLG manages technical assistance for CJII, including ...

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FamilySafe Project Evaluation: Program Implementation and Initial Lessons Learned

  The Urban Institute, in partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is conducting a three-and-a-half-year evaluation from March 2019 to September 2022 of the FamilySafe Project (FSP). The FSP and the evaluation are both funded under the Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII) in response to the New York County District Attorney’s ...

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Evaluation of the Medical-Legal Partnership Program: Mid-Evaluation Summary

The Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) is a partnership between the Legal Aid Society (LAS) and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Child and Family Institute (CFI), which serves children with psychiatric conditions and developmental or learning disabilities. Through the MLP, LAS advocates for families to pursue special education and other supportive educational ...

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Creating a Trauma-Informed Abusive Partner Intervention Program

Given the link between traumatic experience and subsequent perpetration of domestic violence, and the potential for tremendous innovation and impact in this challenged field, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII), along with the Urban Resource Institute, created a trauma-informed abusive partner intervention program ...

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CJII 2020 Annual Report

Today, the City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance (CUNY ISLG) released the 2020 annual report for the Manhattan District Attorney’s $250 million Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII). CUNY ISLG manages technical assistance for CJII, including managing the solicitation and contracting process, providing guidance to award ...

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Request for Proposals for an Evaluation of the Center for Trauma Innovation

The New York County District Attorney’s Office (DANY) is requesting proposals for an evaluator of the Center for Trauma Innovation (CTI). Exodus Transitional Community, Inc is currently in its planning phase and expects to begin implementation of the CTI in spring 2021. The CTI will provide healing and trauma services; offer technical assistance (TTA) to city ...

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Funding Strategic Partnerships as a Public Safety Strategy

As state and local governments across the country seek to improve public safety and social justice, while also confronting the fiscal challenges raised by the pandemic, collaboration is more important than ever. CJII has supported partnerships and collaboration from the beginning, and this latest CJII policy brief explores some of the partnerships created and ...

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CJII progress report – March 2019

Today, the City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance (CUNY-ISLG) released a report marking the progress of the Manhattan District Attorney’s $250 million Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII). CUNY-ISLG provides technical assistance for CJII, including managing the solicitation and contracting process, providing guidance to award ...

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Request for Proposals to Evaluate the Trauma-Informed Abusive Partner Intervention Program

The New York County District Attorney’s Office (DANY) is requesting proposals to evaluate the Trauma-Informed Abusive Partner Intervention Program (TI-APIP). The TI-APIP initiative is situated within DANY’s broader efforts to combat intimate partner violence (IPV), to hold abusive partners accountable, and to reduce recidivism. The Urban Resource Institute is ...

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RFP for West Harlem Community Reentry Project

The District Attorney’s Office is requesting proposals to plan and implement a three-pronged community healing, reentry, and violence prevention project. This West Harlem Community Reentry Project will employ restorative justice, credible messengers, and a capacity-building incubator for local community-based organizations to promote healing among community ...

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