EBP Stakeholder Resources
Below is a comprehensive set of resources for practitioners and stakeholders to assist with understanding and implementing EBP.
Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement
- EBP Overview Video: Pennsylvania Partnership for Criminal Justice Improvement
- PPCJI Communications Toolkit
- PPCJI Communications Calendar (2024-2025)
- EBP Stakeholder Forum (January 2022): Applying Evidence-Based Practices Across Pennsylvania: PowerPoint slides and Video: Guest speaker John Creuzot, Dallas County District Attorney
Please note: Terminology in the criminal justice system has evolved to be person-first, strength-based, and trauma-informed. Earlier published documents of the Association may utilize previously supported terminology. A list of currently supported terminology of the Association can be found in the PPCJI Communications Toolkit.
Risk 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 (updated February 2024)
- Webinar: "Improving Our Efficiency and Effectiveness Through the Use of Risk and Needs Assessments" (2-28-2023); PowerPoint slides from webinar
- Advantages of Statewide Implementation of the ORAS – November 2021
- Brief: 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: 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
- New! Video: Skills and Four-Step Check-In
- New! Skills and Four-Step Check-In Worksheet
- New! Skills and Four-Step Check-In Worksheet with Discussion Points
- New! Video: Case Planning for Handouts
- New! Effective Case Planning and Management Worksheet
- New! Effective Case Planning and Management Worksheet with Discussion Points
- Best Practices for Reinforcements and Responses to Noncompliance (June 2024)
- Webinar: Best Practices for Reinforcements and Responses to Noncompliance (June 2024)
- Slides from the webinar: Best Practices for Reinforcements and Responses to Noncompliance (June 2024)
- 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
- 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
- New! Trainer Fidelity Recommended Guidelines (November 2024)
- New! Coaching for Excellence in Community Supervision Toolkit (October 2024)
- Blueprint for EBP Implementation: Published June 2019
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach, Introduction and Stage 1 (August 2024)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach, Stage 2 (August 2024)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach, Stage 3 (August 2024)
- Implementing EBP: A Staged Approach, Stage 4 (August 2024)
- 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
Stakeholder Roles
- Voices from the Field – Probation Officer
- 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
- New! Voices from the Field - Justice Impacted
- New! Voices from the Field - Family of Justice Impacted
- New! Voices from the Field - Supporting Reentry
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