Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar discusses the Suicide Prevention Resource Guide created in partnership with mental health experts and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) leadership for the inaugural Suicide Prevention Summit. This group of people came together to represent five major providers of correctional health care services.  They discussed the complexities of suicide in corrections, shared their challenges and insights, considered possible process improvements, and discussed other ideas for keeping suicidal inmates safe. Most importantly, they agreed to keep meeting, collaborating, and problem-solving. The result is this Suicide Prevention Resource Guide, representing the collective knowledge of countless experts. The guide includes insight into assessing suicide risk, promising practices and guidelines for treating at-risk individuals, and guidance on developing a training curriculum—all through the lens of working with justice-involved patients within a correctional setting.

When: Thursday, August 5, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP), this webinar will focus on the impact that fentanyl test strips can play in community substance use programming. Utilizing fentanyl test strips is a crucial next step in providing substance use education and lifesaving training to individuals in the community, especially those at high risk for overdose. During this webinar, the presenter will highlight the general background of fentanyl test strips and their efficacy as well as how to gain community buy-in for their utilization, including with law enforcement. Participants can learn more about the essential elements of developing, implementing, and evaluating effective fentanyl test strip distribution programs.

When: Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), this webinar provides an overview of human trafficking and how traffickers exploit adults and children in the United States and around the world for financial gain, among other reasons. Topics include financial and behavioral indicators of labor and sex trafficking, in addition to case studies of the four typologies of money laundering in human trafficking.

When: Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report was prepared by the National Crime Statistics Exchange Team, RTI International, and the Police Executive Research Forum and provides a summary of proceedings from a one-day BJS-sponsored workshop held in December 2019 in Washington, DC. The goal of the workshop was to gather input from stakeholders, including police practitioners, researchers, and crime and data analysts on ways to leverage incident-based data for enhanced tactical and strategic analysis and to improve policing practice and build community trust as a result of the nationwide transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The report provides a summary of the workshop’s key themes, a compilation of innovative analytic approaches identified by the workshop participants, and activities that could promote and accelerate the use of NIBRS data that is intended to help law enforcement practitioners, police executives, and researchers.

Published by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this guidebook provides the law enforcement field with information about existing resources for promoting workforce diversity through a variety of staffing mechanisms. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to promote awareness of research and professional publications that may not have been visible or accessible to practitioners. Though limited, the number of resources on this issue is growing, and this guidebook attempts to highlight publications that are unique, particularly insightful, or considered foundational. Most of these resources contain rich reference lists that will direct the reader to other literature on issues of interest.