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1f: Setting Ground Rules Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Establishing ground rules for how a team will work together is an essential step that teams should take before embarking on any collaborative endeavor. Developing ground rules sets an important foundation for how the team is expected to work […]
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1e: Establishing Team Leadership Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Successful justice system collaboration depends on effective leadership. While much has been written about the composition of a collaborative team and its role as a whole in carrying out the mutually established vision, mission, and goals for criminal justice […]
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1d: Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Through the process of working to become an evidence-based decision making criminal justice system, your team will develop a comprehensive understanding of your current criminal justice system and a vision of what that system could look like in […]
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1c: Creating a Vision for Your Policy Team Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Clarity of outcome is critical to the success of any team. A fundamental starting place for a system of evidence-based decision making is agreement among key policymakers regarding their overarching purpose—or vision—for the justice system. […]
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1b: Administering a Collaboration Survey Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Research suggests that the presence of genuine collaborative relationships among members of a team is a key ingredient to the team’s success in achieving its vision, mission, and goals. When specific conditions are successfully met, teams are most […]
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1a: Conducting an EBDM Readiness Checklist Navigating the Roadmap Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team. Introduction Jurisdictions interested in working towards building an EBDM justice system may want to begin by assessing their readiness for undertaking such work. The EBDM Readiness Checklist is designed to establish your “baseline” for working together and to […]
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Activity 1: Build a genuine, collaborative policy team Collaboration in the criminal justice system seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional and nonsystemic approaches to criminal justice problem solving and solution development. It brings together stakeholders to share information, develop common goals, and jointly create policies to support those goals. “Stakeholders” are defined as those […]
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EBDM Starter Kit IntroductionThe Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) in Local Criminal Justice Systems Starter Kit provides guidance to jurisdictions interested in implementing the EBDM Framework. The Starter Kit outlines a planning process that is informed by the experiences of the seven EBDM sites that participated in Phase II of the EBDM initiative.Purpose of the Starter […]