Synthesizing a Decade of CJII Innovation
Posted in: News
Posted on February 26, 2025
Since 2015, the Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII) has used strategic investments to successfully develop over 50 innovative community programs serving more than 34,000 people across New York City. Reflecting on the past decade of work, this series of briefs take stock of CJII’s goals in key areas, dives into case studies of the real-life impact community organizations achieved, and provides a blueprint for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and funders to shape the future of public safety partnerships.
- In the first brief, we focus on how service providers broke down organizational siloes and cut across systems to enhance coordination efforts, improving the delivery of key education, mental health, special education, and other services.
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- In the second brief, we describe how providers supported healing among youth and young adults; survivors of crime; system-involved individuals; and other groups who have been exposed to violence or otherwise experienced trauma.
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- The third brief discusses how providers designed tailored strategies to reach individuals and communities who have been systematically excluded from public services, and face a heightened risk of being victims and/or interacting with the criminal legal system.
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- The final brief explores how providers created services to support individuals reintegrating into the community from incarceration, connecting them with opportunities and reducing further contact with the criminal legal system.
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