EBP Stakeholder Resources
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Announcing REGIONAL EBP PLANNING WORKSHOPS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE PRACTITIONERS Applications Due June 30, 2022
Who should attend the regional EBP planning workshops?
County teams of criminal justice stakeholders, especially judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, probation/parole, and county commissioners. Other invitees include jail administrators, victim advocates, service providers, and Criminal Justice Advisory Board members.
Eastern Region: September 29-30, 2022
Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey4650 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111Lodging if needed: $117 per night (plus applicable tax); free on-site parking. Reservations must be made before September 1 (the room block will be released after this date).
Western Region: October 13-14, 2022
- DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh Cranberry
- 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, PA 16046
- Lodging, if needed: $124 per night (plus applicable tax); free on-site parking. Reservations must be made before September 21 (the room block will be released after this date).
The goals of the regional EBP planning workshops are to:
- Launch a targeted and strategic vision that identifies specific operational practices that would reduce recidivism across the state
- Support, strengthen, motivate, or help initiate local, collaborative planning efforts to achieve the EBP vision
- Identify what the local, collaborative teams need to be successful in their planning efforts and develop a means and structure to assist them after the workshops
- Help counties begin the process of assessing their current standing against the recently adopted Operating Standards for Adult Probation and Parole Departments in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
Tentative Schedule
Day 1 of the workshop is for all teams
(tentatively 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.)
Day 2 of the workshop is only for county teams selected as a learning site (tentatively 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
Determine if you require overnight lodging. There is no cost to attend the EBP Planning Workshop. However, all travel and lodging expenses will be the county’s responsibility.
STAKEHOLDER FORUM Applying Evidence-Based Practices Across Pennsylvania
The purpose of the Stakeholder Forums held in January 2022, was to advance evidence-based practices (EBP) across Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system stakeholder groups by examining the core areas of EBP that produce the greatest reductions in recidivism. The forums set the stage for Regional Planning Workshops scheduled for the fall of 2022.
Watch Stakeholder Forum Guest Speaker John Creuzot

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PPCJI and EBP Resources
Use the links in the categories below to access the resources that were identified during the forums.
Pennsylvania EBP Resources for Criminal Justice
- Pennsylvania Adult Probation and Parole Evidence-Based Practices Strategic Plan 2016-2018
- Addendum to the Evidence-Based Practices Strategic Plan 2021-2023
- EBP Overview Video: Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement
- Brief about Racial Bias in Assessment Tools entitled Risk Assessment and Racial Fairness: The Proper Use of Risk-Needs Assessments by Judge Roger K. Warren (Ret.)
- Video about Racial Bias in Assessment Tools
- Blueprint for EBP Implementation: published June 2019
- Risk and Need Assessment, User Guide – Volume 1; published September 2018
- Caseload Guidelines Questionnaire Summary
- Advantages of Statewide Implementation of the ORAS – November 2021
- EBP Brief: Risk-Need-Responsivity Principles
- EBP Brief: Harmful Responses
- Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
- Pennsylvania Office of Victim Advocate
Pennsylvania EBP Resources for Juvenile Justice
- Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy Monograph, 2012
- Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy Framework
- Advancing Balanced and Restorative Justice Through Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy Monograph, 2015
- JJSES Bench Cards
- Additional JJSES Resources
- Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission Resources
Evidence-Based Decision-Making Initiative Resources
National Institute of Corrections
- The NIC library provides access to over 18,000 corrections-related resources including training plans, research reports, program evaluations, and more. Visit http://nicic.gov/library
- NIC Information Center – Micro-Sites. The NIC Information Center assists correctional policymakers, practitioners, elected officials, and others interested in corrections issues. Information Specialists who have professional experience in corrections provide expert research assistance, with full access to materials in the NIC library collection. Microsites are websites that contain content focused on a specific topic. NIC has decided that there is too much content on some of the topics below to make it a part of the main website, and have broken it out into its own micro-website http://info.nicic.gov
Justice-Specific Resources
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
- George Mason University's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy
- Justice Center, The Council of State Governments
- National Parole Resource Center
- National Reentry Resource Center
- National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women
- Pew Research Center, Criminal Justice
- Pretrial Justice Institute Resources
- Transition from Jail to the Community (TJC)
- Vera Institute of Justice Resources
- Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research
Research Websites
- Campbell Collaboration, The Crime and Justice Coordinating Group (CCJG)
- Center for the Study of the Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado, Blueprints for Violence Prevention
- Correctional Services of Canada
- Correctional Treatment Evaluations, Texas Christian University, Institute for Behavioral Research
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs)
- National Implementation Research Network
- Stanford University, Evidence-Based Management
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMSHA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
- University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Crime Solutions
- Washington State Institute for Public Policy