2024 CJAB Conference - An Evolving Justice System: Adapting and Navigating New Directions
April 9-10, 2024
"Call for Presenters"
The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) and the County Commissioner's Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) are pleased to announce that planning is underway for the 2024 Criminal Justice Advisory Board (CJAB) Conference. The conference will be held on April 9-10, 2024, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s justice and behavioral health practitioners frequently seek effective strategies to address the safety, concerns, and needs of our Pennsylvania communities. Practitioners are challenged to adapt and navigate new directions that have a positive impact on the individuals and the communities they serve. The goal of the 2024 CJAB Conference: An Evolving Justice System: Adapting and Navigating New Directions, is to highlight best practices, innovative strategies, and successful collaboratives that focus on ongoing and emerging trends across our Commonwealth.
In planning our conferences and events, we evaluate attendee feedback from the previous year to ensure that we provide quality programming based on the needs and interests of our conference attendees. Therefore, we are seeking presenters and sessions that can offer insight into the programs and educational materials that successfully address these areas.
Preference will be given to proposals highlighting innovative solutions, evidence-based, best practices, and promising approaches with relevant content and experience. Special focus on demonstrable programs that are scalable to smaller rural settings and the utilization of existing or limited resources are preferred. The use of modern technologies, enhanced supervision practices, expanded therapeutic strategies, and alternatives to incarceration are also appreciated.
Examples of the types of presentations we're seeking are listed below and are not all-inclusive:
- CJAB Best Practices (i.e., engaging members, leadership and succession planning, strategic planning)
- Courts and Corrections (i.e., pre-trial, and diversionary programs, problem-solving courts)
- Law Enforcement and Community Safety (i.e., community engagement, gun violence strategies and initiatives, diversion and school safety initiatives, drug trends)
- Reentry (i.e., jail-based programs, reentry initiatives, community partnerships, housing, employment, and transitional programming)
- Behavioral Health (i.e., mental health, crisis response, substance abuse or co-occurring initiatives for justice-involved individuals, MAT programs, coordinated efforts to best utilize opioid settlement funds)
- General/Other (strengthening relationships between the justice system and local communities)
Our target audience includes law enforcement, courts, probation, corrections, county leaders, behavioral health practitioners, other criminal justice-related professionals, and community members. Proposals can consist of various presentation styles, including one or more speakers, a panel presentation, video(s), or a combination of these or other presentation styles. Proposed sessions should be 1.25 hours (75 minutes, including Q&A). Please complete all sections of the Call for Presenters application.
For your proposal to be considered, please complete, and submit all materials by Monday, November 13, 2023. Selected presenters will be notified on or before Friday, December 8, 2023.
The submission period is now closed.
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