Health and mental health
Assessing a School Justice and Behavioral Health Collaborative Approach to Improving School Safety
Evaluation of the Bronx-Osborne Gun Avoidance Program (BOGAP)
First Step Act: Review and Revalidation of the Bureau of Prisons Needs Assessment System
Prevalence Estimation of Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Juvenile Facilities
Assessing the impact of treatment quality, matching and dosage on juvenile justice outcomes among a statewide sample of youth with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders
Evaluation of Harris Center Crisis Call Diversion Program
Integrated Law Enforcement and Mental Health Responses in Tucson: An Impact and Cost Benefit Analysis
The Impact of School Police Reform on Student Safety and School Experiences
The Missouri Prevention Center: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reducing the Societal Prevalence and Burden of Youth Mental Health Problems
The School Responder Model (SRM): Virtual Toolbox
Mass Attacks Defense Toolkit: Preventing Mass Attacks, Saving Lives
The North Carolina Youth Violence Prevention Center: Using a Multifaceted, Ecological Approach to Reduce Youth Violence in Impoverished, Rural Areas
The Science of School Safety
The Science of School Safety
Gun violence may be the most discussed topic surrounding school safety, but it is by no means the only one. Bullying, school climate, and mental health affect students across the country, and are some of the many other issues that NIJ researches. Mary Poulin Carlton, an NIJ social science analyst, joins host Paul Haskins to discuss these and other important school safety issues.
Reading and Resources from the National Institute of Justice:
Evaluability Assessment of a Metropolitan Network Service Delivery Model to Connect Trafficked Persons with a Full Range of Victim Services, Final Research Report
NIJ Recidivism Challenge Report: Team Smith
Executive Summary: National Institute of Justice’s Multisite Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts
A meta-analysis of longitudinal partial correlations between school violence and mental health, school performance, and criminal or delinquent acts
Examining the Use and Impacts of Restrictive Housing
Community Violence Intervention
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy Solomon and Senior Advisor Eddie Bocanegra team up in this Justice Today podcast to discuss community violence intervention. Bocanegra discusses his own experience with gang violence and incarceration and his work in OJP to help the Biden Administration tackle community-based violence. This episode was recorded before the FY 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant solicitation closed.