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Justice Management Institute outlines multi-year CJC strategy; recommends bylaws, steering committee and expanded membership
Summary
Consultants from the Justice Management Institute presented a draft three-year roadmap that centers behavioral health, pretrial alternatives and reentry. They recommended the council adopt national CJC standards, expand membership to key criminal-justice gatekeepers, create a steering committee, and develop bylaws, KPIs and a communications plan.
Tom Eberly and Amy Wichman of the Justice Management Institute presented a status update on the Community Justice Council’s strategic-plan development and solicited council feedback on priorities and organizational recommendations.
The nut graf: JMI advised the council to focus near-term strategy on four priorities — behavioral health and substance-use response, pre-arrest diversion and pretrial alternatives, reentry and reintegration, and crime/violence prevention as a cross-cutting concern — while adopting governance updates (bylaws, a steering committee, membership expansion and performance metrics) to improve execution and coordination.
Eberly said JMI’s work follows stakeholder interviews and planning-team workshops and that the next steps include deeper work sessions in August and a September return with more concrete timelines and resource estimates. “We were brought in by the CJC to help develop a strategic plan for the next 1, 2, and 3 years,” Eberly said.
JMI summarized proposed priority areas and…
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