National Public Safety Partnership Web Event

Learn More About the National Public Safety Partnership

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET

The Bureau of Justice Assistance invites you to join our webinar and learn more about the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) and how it can benefit your site.

PSP is designed to promote interagency coordination by leveraging specialized law enforcement expertise with dedicated prosecutorial resources to promote public and community safety. PSP’s strategic focus is designed to support communities that (1) struggle with levels of violent crime far in excess of the national average and (2) would benefit from the support of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in developing their own capacities.

PSP serves as a DOJ-wide program that enables participating sites to consult with and receive coordinated training and technical assistance (TTA) from DOJ to support violence reduction strategies. This model enables DOJ to provide effective assistance to jurisdictions of different sizes and diverse needs that will support and build their capacities to address violent crime. This opportunity is most appropriate for midsize and large agencies.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from the director of PSP, Ms. Kristie Brackens, who will provide background information on the PSP program and cover:

Details on the site selection process.
Resources available through PSP.
Support provided by PSP’s two TTA providers, CNA and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR).
An outline of a three-year engagement timeline.
The suite of online tools available to PSP sites.
An overview of resources available from DOJ’s federal law enforcement agencies.

No registration fee or cost is required to participate in this Web event. Please register here.

Featured Speaker

Kristie Brackens has been with the Department of Justice since 2007. She joined Bureau of Justice Assistance at the U.S. Department of Justice as a Senior Policy Advisor on Law Enforcement in July 2014. She currently supervises the Violent Crime Reduction Unit within the Law Enforcement Innovation and Crime Reduction Unit. Additionally, she manages the day-to-day operations of the National Public Safety Partnership, as the Director. As Director of PSP, she works with various DOJ components to coordinate the delivery of training and technical assistance and DOJ programmatic and federal law enforcement resources to support cities with high rates of violent crime to enhance local jurisdictions capacity to better address drug, gang, and gun crime to improve public safety. Previously, she worked as a Juvenile Justice Specialist within the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) State and Community Development Division; where she worked on the former Attorney General Eric Holder’s Defending Childhood Initiative as the initiative’s Team Lead. During her time at OJJDP, she worked extensively on issues of reentry, juvenile justice systems improvement, youth violence, children’s exposure to violence, and addressing racial/ethnic disparities within the juvenile justice system. Additionally, she served as the DOJ Liaison to Memphis in support of the Whitehouse Strong Cities Strong Communities Initiative and National Forum on Youth Violence during the Obama Administration.

Ms. Brackens is a 2018 graduate of the Department of Justice Leadership Achievement Excellence Program. She holds a Master Public Administration and Master of Science degree in Justice Studies, and Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies (magna cum laude).