Sixth Amendment Training and Technical Assistance Initiative
This initiative helps to ensure that states and local government are provided with the capacity and tools necessary to meet the obligations established by the Sixth Amendment.
Training and technical assistance
Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
Administered by BJA in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, this initiative provides funding to state, local, and tribal government entities that are experiencing precipitous increases in gun-related violent crime.
Community Courts Initiative
This initiative supports state, local, and federally recognized tribal governments to establish and enhance community courts, which are neighborhood-focused court programs that combine the power of the community and the justice system to address local problems.
Capital Case Litigation Training and Technical Assistance Initiative
This initiative provides support to prosecutors, defense counsel, and the judiciary on implementing improvements throughout the field of capital case litigation, while supporting litigators with the tools and resources to mitigate risk for error.
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute works under a grant program to provide training and technical assistance to Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts.
VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Training and Technical Assistance Program (VALOR Program)
This training and technical assistance program delivers current, dynamic classroom and web-based trainings that focus on recognizing indicators of dangerous situations, applying diffusing techniques, implementing casualty care and rescue tactics, emphasizing professional policing standards, and improving wellness and resilience.
National Correctional Industries Association (NCIA)
As part of the Training and Technical Assistance Project of the Private Sector/Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) for the U.S. Department of Justice, NCIA conducts reviews of PIECP programs and cost accounting centers, compiles and publishes quarterly statistical reports, and provides technical support to PIECP certificate holders via an annual training webinar and online resources.
Active Shooter Response Training and Technical Assistance Program
This training program, in partnership with Texas State University's Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, provides a variety of active shooter tactical response trainings for law enforcement officers to prepare them to respond to active shooter situations safely and effectively.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Training and Technical Assistance
RSAT TTA is a BJA-funded program offering services through Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., in partnership with Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities and AdCare Criminal Justice Services.
Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Training & Technical Assistance (TTA)
The goals of the BWC TTA program are to learn about the progress and activities regarding BWC implementation, identify opportunities for TTA, provide TTA in efficient and effective manners, and support the successful implementation of BWCs in different sites.
Law Enforcement and Community: Crisis Intervention Training Model Program
This training and technical assistance program delivers the crisis intervention training model, developed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to law enforcement agencies, along with a suite of resources and technical assistance.
Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)
The SAKI TTA program, led by RTI International and in partnership with a team of subject matter experts, offers expertise and assistance to jurisdictions as they establish widespread, evidence-based, sustainable practices for collecting and processing forensic evidence, investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases resulting from evidence from previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits, and supporting survivors of sexual assault.
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTAC)
The PDMP TTAC at Brandeis University provides a comprehensive array of services, support, resources, and strategies to PDMPs, federal partners and other stakeholders to further the efforts and effectiveness of PDMPs in combating the misuse, abuse and diversion of prescription drugs.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
BJA awarded funding to NACDL in 2015 to conduct national trainings, provide technical assistance and webinars, and expand online resource materials for lawyers who evaluate and litigate post-conviction innocence claims. Additional funding was provided in 2017 to conduct a new assessment of the current state of the URLPWC Program to inform BJA's advancement of its wrongful conviction prevention efforts.
National Drug Court Institute (NDCI)
NDCI was formed in response to a need for standardized, evidence-based training and technical assistance as a result of the rapid expansion of problem-solving courts across the US.
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice (Quattrone Center)
University of Pennsylvania Law School's Quattrone Center was awarded funding by BJA to provide training and technical assistance to seven selected projects in 2018.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
This formula grant program is the leading federal source of criminal justice funding to states, territories, local governments, and tribes. It provides critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas.
Webinar: Capital Litigation Improvement Project Series: Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations
Taking place December 4, 2019, at 3 p.m. ET, this webinar, hosted by BJA National Training and Technical Assistance Center, focuses on the issues district attorneys face while prosecuting mass shootings cases. Register to participate in the webinar.
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Training and Technical Assistance Portal
With funding support from BJA, the National Center for Victims of Crime has launched the PSN Training and Technical Assistance Portal to help PSN task forces integrate victim services into their work. The site features victim-centered, trauma-informed materials for service providers and law enforcement officials who work with victims of violent crime.
Promising Strategies for Strengthening Homicide Investigations
With support from BJA, the Police Executive Research Forum conducted a multi-year project to assess homicide investigation practices in five cities: Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Miami, and Pittsburgh. This report summarizes the lessons learned from those studies.
Justice Department Awards More Than $30 Million to Project Safe Neighborhoods to Combat Violent Crime
In support of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) programs throughout the country, the Attorney General announced awards of almost $28 million in grant funding to combat violent crime through PSN and another $3 million for training and technical assistance to develop and implement violent crime reduction strategies and enhance services and resources for victims of violent crime. View the press release for details.
Training & Technical Assistance
BJA provides access to training and technical assistance resources for organizations within the policing and crime, courts, corrections and criminal and legally connected community-based spaces.
FY 2019 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Solicitation Webinar
May 2019
Series
This March 21, 2019, webinar provided details and guidance for potential applicants to the Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiative FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement.
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FY 2019 Improving Justice Mental Health Collaboration TTA Solicitation Webinar
May 2019
Series
This April 24, 2019, webinar provided details and guidance for potential applicants to the Improving Justice Mental Health Collaboration: Training and Technical Assistance to Grantees and the Field FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement.
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The Changing Nature of Crime and Criminal Investigations Webinar
March 2019
During this November 28, 2018, webinar, PERF researchers discussed the impact of computers and other technologies on the nature of crime, as well as explained how technology changes investigations for law enforcement.
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