Community Responses

Provide fiscal support, technical assistance, and capacity building for community-based organizations. This work includes coaching on financial documentation procedures, pre-auditing all expenses, processing invoices, providing reimbursements, assisting with cost allocation methodology, and training in fund accounting.

Assist CBOs in developing a program budget in compliance with DOJ requirements, helping them to consider how to align financial strategy to an effective program model. Train CBOs in budget development and management best practices for non-profit management.

Provide individual coaching on data entry, data tracking, and outcomes reporting utilizing a community-oriented database, CaseMGR, to track the interventions of community-based organizations, the accomplishments of the participants they serve, and the impact they are having in their communities. In particular, this work supports direct service by considering what the data tells us about participant needs and achievements, utilizing that information to design effective program models, and communicating those outcomes to funders and other stakeholders.

This tool was developed to support the continuous quality improvement of community violence intervention (CVI) programs. It includes a set of high-level organizational and programmatic parameters against which community-based organizations can assess the extent to which they possess the necessary capacities to carry out evidence-informed CVI programs.

In an effort to better understand the training and technical assistance (TTA) needs of the community violence intervention (CVI) field, the READI National Center for Safe Communities has committed to providing direct TTA to up to 25 community-based CVI organizations over the next 3 years. Each year, the Center will select up to 8 organizations who will then receive 5 months of free group-based and individualized training, workshops, and consultation. Tools, trainings, and materials developed for these cohorts, once tested and proven useful, will be shared with the broader CVI field.

Initiated the design of the Community Safety Solutions Center website, "safetysolutions.org", which will host program design and implementation resources for community violence prevention and intervention professionals.

Draft TTA action plan based on assessment results and introductory meetings

Conducted organizational readiness assessments with site-based Grantees

JRI Coaches will provide site-specific supports to JRI awarded FY21 sites throughout their JRI engagement. This will come in the form of direct TTA assistance, guidance through the JRI process, and connecting sites with a larger network of BJA and JRI resources to help them develop and implement their JRI initiative.

Technical assistance (TA) is built into the twice-per-month site visits with each Community Partner and memorialized in meeting notes and data entry, fiscal and program processes, data collection, and reporting. A full-time LCCL staff person will provide the technical support along with an internal team of subject matter experts. The TA will be ongoing and responsive to Community Partner needs to ensure grant requirements are met. Often in this process, misunderstandings are cleared up or the need for re-training is identified, both of which are examples of proactive TA.