Community Responses

LISC lead a breakout session on reducing school violence through partnership during 2023's STOP annual conference. Addressing community violence inside and outside of schools requires a unified approach, which leverages the experience and expertise of community partners as well as school staff and administrators. During this breakout session, participants will be exposed to two organizations partnering with schools to implement the safe passages model and the Richmond, VA, League for Safer Streets Initiative.

The Federal Regulations governing the grant programs financially supported by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) require all grantees to monitor, at least once per grant cycle, all elements of their grant narrative against performance goals and compliance with administrative requirements. The purpose of LCCL's monitoring is to evaluate our community partners and their adherence to federal regulations and other policies and procedures relevant to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (OJP-BJA).

Sponsor grantees to attend conference in Birmingham, AL. This year, 2023, the City of Birmingham commemorates sixty years since the Birmingham campaign for civil and human rights. As a part of the commemorative events, The Historic Bethel Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund of Birmingham, Alabama, is pleased to announce its conference on individual and community healing. What happened here in 1963 changed not only the city but inspired similar movements for human and civil rights across the nation and around the world.

Building a robust crisis system of care requires collaboration between multiple systems and stakeholders. Community-based organizations can enhance existing crisis systems by providing services, support, and lived experience to people in crisis. As the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is uniquely positioned to share the value of community-based organizations to support a coordinated community crisis response.

NCJA assisted the Minnesota SAA in the development of a stakeholder n Specifically, they requested help in developing the questions, formatting the survey and analyzing it on the backend, and presenting to the subcommittee and board. In conjunction with the SAA, NCJA staff is designing a stakeholder survey, logic-based, and the KS SAA will distribute that survey out beginning in early February.

NCJA is supporting the Center for Justice Innovation with a pilot program evaluation program with the Lincoln Police Department to evaluate a new position added to patrol, a team investigator. This position was added by the Chief approximately 6 months ago. As a first step, NCJA and CJI assisted the Lincoln Police Department with a survey that was sent out to patrol officers, analyzing the overall perception of the team investigator role.

The North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission and Department of Public Safety were assigned to conduct research on existing programs, protocols, and best practices to address hate crimes in the state. They requested information and resources to tackle hate crimes comprehensively. As a response, NCJA provided them with a detailed list of resources on how to prevent hate crimes and how different providers such as law enforcement, schools, and community members can address them. The guide emphasized the importance of time in prosecuting and handling hate crimes.

The Rhode Island Public Safety Grant Administration Office has reached out for assistance with the development, distribution, and analysis of a survey. The survey aims to gather information on the comprehensive needs of the state's criminal justice system. Rhode Island plans to distribute this statewide survey to gain a better understanding of the crime trends in their communities. What makes this survey unique is that it includes community members and those with lived experience, such as survivors and justice-impacted individuals.

Worked with Nevada to create a stakeholder engagement plan to assist them with identifying stakeholders to engage in their strategic planning process.

The SAA out of Kansas requested assistance in the development of a stakeholder needs assessment survey for their upcoming JAG strategic plan. Specifically, they requested help in developing the questions, formatting the survey and analyzing it on the backend, and presenting to the subcommittee and board. In conjunction with the SAA, NCJA staff designed a stakeholder survey, logic-based, and the KS SAA distributed the survey on March 11, 2024. The survey closed on March 22nd with 158 responses.