About the Center
The Center for Effective Public Policy is a nonprofit organization first incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1981 with its main office in Silver Spring, Maryland, and satellite offices in Hatboro, Pennsylvania; Columbia, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri; Columbia, South Carolina; and San Francisco, California. The Center's staff—approximately two dozen in all, depending on the cumulative scope of individual projects—and network of expert consultants are configured into project teams that have diverse qualifications and backgrounds in corrections, organizational development, nonprofit management, training, criminal justice, human services research, agency administration, and policy development.
Our Staff
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Mission
Assuring a fair, equitable, and effective system of justice is a critical public policy issue today. The Center's mission is to assist public justice agencies to become more effective in achieving their own goals and objectives in service to the public. In pursuit of that mission, the Center works for and with justice and allied agencies to:
- Better define their own vision, mission, and goals;
- Inform themselves about and implement emerging best practices in their field;
- Inform themselves about new knowledge emerging from research and how to utilize that knowledge in the operation of justice agencies;
- Provide up-to-date training and information to all levels of staff; and
- Create collaborative change teams both within organizations and across organizational boundaries to bring about policies and practices to enhance the quality of justice.
What's New
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