EBP Stakeholder Resources
Below is a comprehensive set of resources for practitioners and stakeholders to assist with understanding and implementing EBP.
EBP Strategic Plan
- CCAPPOAP EBP Strategic Plan (adopted 9/20/2023)
- Addendum to the Evidence-Based Practices Strategic Plan 2021-2023
- Resolution to Extend Strategic Plan 2019-2021 (December 2018)
- Pennsylvania Adult Probation and Parole Evidence-Based Practices Strategic Plan 2016-2018
Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement
- EBP Overview Video: Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement
- PPCJI Communications Toolkit
- EBP Stakeholder Forum (January 2022) Applying Evidence-Based Practices Across Pennsylvania; PowerPoint slides; Watch Video of guest speaker John Creuzot, Dallas County District Attorney
Risk and Needs Assessments
- Risk and Need Assessment, User Guide – Volume 1; published September 2018
- PPCJI Risk & Need Assessment User Guide - Specialized Assessments
- Risk Assessment Tools used by County Adult Probation & Parole Departments (August 2021)
- Video recording of the webinar "Improving Our Efficiency and Effectiveness Through the Use of Risk and Needs Assessments" (2-28-2023); PowerPoint slides from the webinar
- Advantages of Statewide Implementation of the ORAS – November 2021
- 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
- Interrater Reliability of Risk Needs Instruments
- Preliminary Recidivism Rates: What Data Tells Us About EBP and Risk Assessment (Dr. Robert Orth, IUP & April Billet) Presentation at CJAB Conference (April 2024)
Effective Supervision and Programs
- Caseload Guidelines: Strategies and Recommendations
- Caseload Guidelines Questionnaire Summary
- Performing a Program and Service Gap Analysis
- Building Professional Alliance (Video and discussion guide)
- Overcoming Resistance to Change (Video and discussion guide)
- Webinar: Effective Correctional Programs (May 23, 2024)
- Slides from the webinar: Effective Correctional Programs– Effective Supervision and Programs
- Manual of Effective Correctional Programs (May 2024)
- Webinar: Caseload Guidelines: Strategies and Recommendations (April 18, 2024)
- Slides from the webinar: Caseload Guidelines: Strategies and Recommendations
- Knowledge Test: How much do you think you know about EBP?
Implementation of EBP
- Blueprint for EBP Implementation: Published June 2019
- New! Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach; Overview and Stage 1 (January 2024)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach; Overview and Stage 2 (Coming Soon)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach; Overview and Stage 3 (Coming Soon)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach; Overview and Stage 4 (Coming Soon)
- Webinar: Organizational Readiness Survey: The Key to Implementing Change (March 1, 2024)
- Slides from the webinar: Organizational Readiness Survey: The Key to Implementing Change
- Conducting an Organizational Readiness Survey
- Organizational Readiness Survey
- The Organizational Readiness Survey: Tips for Effectively Using Results
Case (Success) Planning
- Webinar (May 2023)
- Webinar PowerPoint
- Success Plan Template
- Sample Success Plan
- Success Plan Policy
Spotlighting EBP Success
- Indiana County & York County: Improving Outcomes in Jurisdictions Large and Small
- Cumberland County: Using Data to Determine Policy
- Chester County: Effective Interventions Lead to Improved Outcomes
- Cost-Benefit of Probation and Parole's Application of Evidence-Based Practices
Stakeholder Roles
- Voices from the Field – Chief Adult Probation Officer
- Voices from the Field – Judge
- Voices from the Field – District Attorney
- Voices from the Field – Warden
- Voices from the Field – Public Defender
- Voices from the Field – Victim Advocate
Victims
- Ensuring Victims’ Rights as a Probation Officer
- Victim And Trauma Informed Training Options for Probation Staff
- Sample Victim Probation Policy
Additional Resources
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