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8a: Building a Plan for Implementation Navigating the Roadmap Activity 8: Develop a strategic action plan for implementation. Considerations for Developing Harm Reduction Goals and Objectives How will the jurisdiction benefit as a whole (i.e., what are the intended harm reduction outcomes)? How will the criminal justice system benefit from movement to an EBDM-based system? […]

Activity 8: Develop a strategic action plan for implementation The culmination of the process of building a justice system based on evidence-based decisions is the creation of a clear, specific, measurable plan for implementing the policy and practice changes that the policy team has agreed upon. This plan will serve as the new roadmap for […]

7a: Developing a Communications Strategy; Building Stakeholder and Community Engagement Navigating the Roadmap Activity 7: Engage/gain the support of the community. Introduction The EBDM Initiative seeks to create a set of conditions under which harm and risk reduction are realized to their true potential. Agreement on a systemwide vision and methods to assess its achievement, […]

Activity 7: Engage and gain the support of a broader set of stakeholders and the community Building awareness and understanding and soliciting support for EBDM from a broader set of stakeholders and from the community is critical to the achievement of successful systemwide change. Developing a communications strategy is therefore critical to achieving greater buy-in […]

6b: Developing a Systemwide Scorecard Navigating the Roadmap Activity 6: Establish performance measures/outcomes/system scorecard. Introduction Historically, criminal justice agencies and their allied partners have developed independent methods to describe and measure their performance. Police agencies report on crime trends, arrests made, and the elapsed time between calls to dispatch and the arrival of patrol cars […]

6a: Measuring Your Performance Navigating the Roadmap Activity 6: Establish performance measures/outcomes/system scorecard. Introduction Performance measures are tools for managing the performance of an agency, organization, or even a system. Performance measures provide benchmarks about whether or not optimum performance by the criminal justice system (and the entities within it) is being realized and, more […]

Activity 6: Establish performance measures, determine outcomes, and develop a system scorecard What Do We Mean by Outcomes? “Outcomes,” under a risk reduction model, are defined as: decreases in the rate or severity of reoffense by offenders, decreases in the harm caused to communities as a result of crime, increases in the level of satisfaction […]

5a: Building Logic Models Navigating the Roadmap Activity 5: Develop logic models. Introduction The development and use of a logic model is a critical step in understanding how evidence-based decision making (EBDM) will operate in a specific jurisdiction. A logic model helps lay out the shared understandings of what resources are available, what activities and […]