Public Health Meets Public Safety is a collaboration between the CSG Justice Center and the California Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health that gives California’s policymakers a new tool to promote positive outcomes for people with behavioral health needs.  

Researchers and data scientists created a framework that overlays community-based factors, including educational attainment, food insecurity rates, and access to community health care facilities, with criminal justice outcomes. This framework was then used to build a data visualization tool that allows policymakers to see the correlations between these datasets at the statewide, regional, and county levels and pinpoint how to improve public health and public safety outcomes for Californians.

From counseling to legal aid, crime victims and their families deserve critical support and to be treated with compassion and dignity. The CSG Justice Center is proud to partner with the New York State Office of Victim Services to further identify needs and better understand gaps in services for victims and survivors in a statewide effort profiled by NewsChannel 9.

The CSG Justice Center and the Center for Policing Equity are collaboratively hosting Data Connections to Support Alternative Crisis Response Methods. The webinar will focus on building capacity for data collection to support communities across the country looking to stand up alternatives to traditional first response models around the issues of crisis, violence intervention, youth diversion, and college campuses.  

📅 Tuesday, August 29, 2023

⏰ 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET

The CSG Justice Center will be hosting a webinar on medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services and community reentry with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance. Join us and learn how MAT can treat opioid use disorders and how community-based reentry centers can connect people to services after release.

📅 Thursday, August 31, 2023

⏰ 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET

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