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Our Community Advisory Board is comprised exclusively of individuals who have lived experience of the criminal justice system.
Board members meet monthly to review all of our work at IJRD, ensuring that we remain relevant, accessible, and equitable. Over the past year, the Community Advisory Board has helped us refine our data collection processes and adjust our work with minors incarcerated in adult correctional facilities. At our next meeting, Board members will consult on how to use artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with individuals under community supervision to improve outcomes and maximize autonomy.
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National Scientific Advisory Committee
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In May 2020, the IJRD leadership team met with the National Scientific Advisory Committee (NSAC), a committee comprised of national scholars and experts in criminal justice, behavioral health, and implementation science research.
The committee provided IJRD with strategic guidance on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their current research projects, on finding solutions to address the challenges and barriers experiences in these current projects beyond COVID-19, and future research projects.
Click the image to learn more!
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Click the image to read a piece featuring results from our most recent quarterly report in The Crime Report. The article, "Trauma ‘A Way of Life’ for Returning Citizens" and details how a striking 47% of 5-Key Model study participants leaving incarceration experienced at least one traumatic event in the eight months after they returned home.
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Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, was interviewed by The Texas Standard about the serious traumatic events many individuals experience after they leave incarceration and return home.
She also describes the ways communities can help these individuals heal and thrive and mentions the $1 Trillion social cost of incarceration.
Click the image to listen!
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Bill Rone, a Reentry Program Specialist and an inaugural member of our Post-Master's Fellowship program, sacrificed his right to vote to help Kentuckians releasing from prison.
Click the image to read his op-ed piece published in the Lexington Herald-Leader about what that means for his own freedom.
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Click the image to listen to Heidi Otway's interview with Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, on her work developing data-driven solutions to criminal justice reform. The show aired on the podcast Fluent in Floridian.
"Pettus-Davis devoted most of her career to improving the lives of formerly incarcerated people. Her five key approach prepares them to be job ready and job steady for when they return home."
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Click the image to listen to a radio interview with Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, and Stephen Tripodi, Associate Director, on WFSU. They highlight the critical importance of providing trauma treatment to young men leaving prison to help them achieve community stability and develop well-being.
You can also read the official FSU press release here and read an article about the grant published by News4Jax.
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Click the image to read an article in The Crime Report featuring our Sixth Quarterly Report on the reasons that individuals are re-arrested or return to incarceration not because they have committed a new crime but because they have committed “technical violations” of their terms of probation or parole.
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Click the image to read an op-ed written by Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, and published in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, about a little talked about public health crisis facing all of our communities - individuals releasing from prison and dying at alarming rates.
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On the Criminal Injustice podcast, Jenny Kim, Advisory Council Lead for S3C, and host David A. Harris discuss the profound need for criminal justice reform, second-chance hiring, and the work of IJRD with the 5-Key Model. Click the image to listen!
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Featured High-Impact Publications
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"Intervention development study of the Five-Key Model for Reentry: An evidence-driven prisoner reentry intervention" was published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
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"Early Lessons from the Multistate Study of the 5-Key Model for Reentry" was published in Perspectives: The Journal of the American Probation and Parole Association.
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"The Intersectional Effects of Race and Gender on Time to Reincarceration” was printed in Justice Quarterly.
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"'I took care of my kids': Mothering while incarcerated" was published in the open-access journal Health and Justice.
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"Pathways to recidivism for women released from prison: A mediated model” was published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.
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"Childhood polyvictimization and mental health issues among incarcerated women: Results from a cluster analysis" was published in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.
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"Measurement in correctional health research: Unique challenges and strategies for enhanced rigor" was published in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.
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Three tools for the field were re-released:
These booklets were designed to help practitioners and educators infuse data-driven solutions in their work.
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Remembering Michael Davidson
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APRIL 29, 1984 – APRIL 20, 2020
We lost a colleague and a dear friend this year at IJRD. Michael Davidson, the Program Manager for both our Kentucky and Ohio teams, died unexpectedly on April 20, 2020.
Michael started with IJRD in April of 2018 - he was one of our first hires on the 5-Key Model project and he was integral to the success of the study. Michael was a dedicated worker and was an engaged and supportive team leader. He led with heart, humor, and authenticity.
He will be dearly missed.
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