Click the image to read an op-ed authored by Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, published in the News Press. The piece is entitled, "Resiliency Behind the Badge - One-of-a-Kind Training for Law Enforcement."
Pettus-Davis describes the research-backed training, which IJRD developed in partnership with the Florida Sherriff's Association. The training focuses on an officer’s mental health, including the effects of exposure to extremely stressful or traumatic events.
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Click the image to read an op-ed published in the Asheville Citizen-Times by Paula Zerfoss about post-traumatic stress among law enforcement officers and how post-traumatic stress may, in the words of Carrie Pettus-Davis, "lead officers to a misappraisal of social situations that can lead to disproportionate reactions.”
This supports the need for IJRD's training programs designed to help law enforcement officers to recognize and manage their own post-traumatic stress reactions.
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Click the image to read an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner by Andrew Afifian, a policy analyst with Right on Crime. This piece highlights a recent 5-Key Model quarterly report which found that nearly half of the 5-Key Model study participants experienced severe trauma in the 8 months since their release.
Afifian calls for maintaining and increasing individuals' access to mental health and rehabilitation programs as they return home from incarceration.
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Click the image to read an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel by Gil Zifffer, who notes how individuals leaving incarceration and returning home deserve much more than the right to vote - they need access to opportunities to enable them to successfully rejoin our communities.
Ziffer highlights listening to experts like Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, and identifying and implementing data-driven solutions.
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Click the image to read an article featuring IJRD's 5-Key Model Quarterly Report which highlights the COVID-19 related experiences of incarcerated and recently released individuals.
The article details how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the restrictions enacted by communities to control the spread of the virus, affected individuals during their incarceration and shortly after their release.
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A piece published in the Dallas Morning News highlighted the impact of IJRD's work in Dallas in the decision of Dallas City Council members to earmark $500,000 in grant money to help individuals secure housing and employment after release from prison.
This move was bolstered by the 5-Key Model program being tested in Dallas. Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, called Dallas a "natural test site." She has said the city was well ahead of the curve on providing reentry services for its large population of individuals with incarceration histories.
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Click the image to read an article about a $1.9 million grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice to Founding Executive Director Carrie Pettus-Davis and colleagues from Purdue University, Florida State University, and the University of Alabama-Huntsville. The researchers are developing and testing an AI-based support system to explore whether it can help individuals faced with the stressful situations that often lead them back to incarceration.
The project also addresses obstacles faced by overburdened caseworkers. “This solution can get us on a path to substantially reduce the size of our criminal justice system, which is desperately needed in our country,” said Carrie Pettus-Davis.
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Featured High-Impact Publications
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Stephen Tripodi, Faculty Director of Academic Dissemination, College of Social Work colleague Michael Killian, and three College of Social Work doctoral students published a paper entitled, "Trauma-Informed Care Groups with Incarcerated Women." This article compares the effectiveness of two evidence-based programs - Seeking Safety and STAIR - on incarcerated women's trauma symptoms and well-being.
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Tanya Renn, Faculty Director of Academic Dissemination, Christopher Veeh, Faculty Associate, Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, and colleagues published an article entitled, "The Role of Preparatory Programming in Increasing the Effectiveness of a Sex Offender Treatment Intervention." The paper details the association between specialized programming and an individual's return to incarceration after release.
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Carrie Pettus-Davis, Founding Executive Director, and Stephanie Kennedy, Director of Research Dissemination, published a chapter entitled, “Building on Reentry Research: A New Conceptual Framework and Approach to Reentry Services and Research.”
The edited volume, Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record, was issued by the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections & Sentencing and published by Routledge.
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Join IJRD as Research Faculty for Behavioral Health & Criminal Justice!
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Support for IJRD’s research is crucial to enacting our mission to use science to improve lives, communities, and institutions by developing and researching innovations that reduce unnecessary reliance on the criminal justice system and by offering solutions that produce equity and prosperity across race, socioeconomic class, and behavioral health status.
Learn how you can join us as a Pathfinder, Luminary, or Trailblazer.
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