The Nevada SAA initially met the NCJA Strategic Planning TTA Program Manager 2017 National Forum in Long Beach, California. They discussed the state's strategic plan and ability to whether this plan would need to be updated to comply with 2019 requirements. Nevada's CJPA attended the Institute for State Criminal Justice and Public Safety Executives, and were provided an overview of the TTA program, which included information about training options available under the Strategic Planning TTA Program.
On January 12, 2018, the NV SAA submitted an online form to the NCJA to request Tier I TTA, a less intensive problem-solving response that includes delivery of information through email, telephone, document dissemination and referral to websites or other resources. The state reviewed its existing strategic plan and provided a copy to NCJA for review, indicating an interest in updating the plan. Nevada also stated an interest in onsite facilitation in July/August 2018 with support for planning efforts between March - May 2018. The NCJA reviewed Nevada's strategic plan on January 18, 2018.
On the Western Regional call, held on January 22, and which Nevada participated, the NCJA provided another overview of the TTA services available to states engaged in Byrne JAG strategic planning. Regional trainings to be held in Florida, Texas and Minnesota in 2018 were also discussed.
A planning call was held on January 23 with the NV SAA regarding upcoming planning efforts. The SAA director had been in the position less than one year and was not involved with previous planning efforts, and did not have a CJS background. The director requested full support from NCJA. The NCJA Project Manager provided a draft stakeholder survey and NCJA staff worked with the SAA staff to refine the questionnaire and build the online survey. The NV SAA director reviewed the survey. In addition, a discussion was held to schedule the venue for onsite facilitation, and the drafting of an outreach letter to stakeholders. Onsite facilitation scheduled in Nevada June 26 - 27, 2018.
On January 26, follow-up emails were sent to confirm the venue for June onsite training. Sample stakeholder surveys were also sent via email as well as language from the JFAA that identifies necessary stakeholders for engagement. Outreach was made to the SAA on February 28 to finalize dates for onsite TTA visit, training of stakeholders and facilitation of strategic planning session, which was confirmed for June 27 - 28, 2018.
On April 6, the NCJA invited the SAA to attend the first of three regional strategic planning trainings, to be held in Tampa on April 26-27 (which the SAA attended). Follow up communication was made on April 9 regarding the content, structure of the training and schedule of events. The NCJA also work with the SAA on this date regarding travel scholarship opportunities for the upcoming Strategic Planning training event in Tampa, FL
Western regional call. Conducted listening session with BJA regarding opioid crisis and the release of new CARA/COAP grant funds.
On April 9, the NCJA coordinated with the NV SAA regarding travel scholarship opportunities for the first of three regional Strategic Planning training event to be held in 2018. The NV attended the two-day training sessions held in Tampa, FL on April 26-27 and Ft. Worth, TX on July 25-26.
The NV SAA submitted another online request form on May 4, 2018 (under the new director), stating that the SAA was in the process of planning our first committee for the strategic plan for JAG FY19. With the staff being mostly new, the SAA team sought guidance in the process. The planning session was scheduled for June 27-28. After having a planning committee, the NV SAA Director hoped to gain a better understand of the whole picture of how Nevada OCJA will move forward as a leader in our Law Enforcement funding.
In May, 2018 the NCJA staff worked with the NV SAA team to develop a stakeholder survey, which opened for two weeks between June 4 and June 18, 2018, with 55 responses. A formal report of findings was presented by the NCJA to NV SAA team in July, 2018.
On May 28, 2018, an MOU was develoed for a JAG PMT data utilization pilot project. The MOU was circulated among partners. The following day, the team discussed data collection needs for the JAG PMT data project; each partner would provide a data set for analysis. An executed MOU for the data visualization project was provided on June 3.
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