Center for Effective Public Policy Statement of Qualifications
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 members have diverse qualifications and backgrounds in criminal justice, organizational development, nonprofit management, training, human services research, and policy development. The Center has provided specific assistance to courts, state and local governments, corrections agencies, nonprofit organizations, the faith–based community, and private philanthropic foundations in three primary areas:
A. Program Design, Training, and Organizational Development:
- Designing and conducting national, regional, and local conferences and meetings involving state and local policymakers from the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government;
- Designing and conducting national, regional, and local specialized training workshops for policymakers, including judges, sentencing commission members, legislators, and paroling authorities, and for the staff of these and other organizations;
- Facilitating key meetings of state and county policy teams, task forces, and parole boards; and
- Providing facilitation, expertise in communication skills, and management training to key staff in courts, state and local corrections agencies, and private and public organizations.
B. Research, Training, and Technical Assistance:
- Assisting both agencies and systems to explicate and describe current practice;
- Identifying and analyzing problems, conducting organizational needs assessments, and implementing recommended changes;
- Conducting research, including research design, literature reviews, instrument design, data collection, data analysis, and the synthesis necessary to support policy development;
- Publishing scholarly papers, surveys, directories, and documentation of lessons learned related to the Center's efforts;
- Designing and delivering training events for diverse audiences to support skill development, implementation of best practices, and to facilitate system change;
- Making presentations at national professional meetings and conferences; and
- Serving as a clearinghouse of current developments and emerging innovations in intermediate sanctions, parole and probation violation/revocation decisionmaking, parole release decisionmaking, sex offender management, domestic and sexual violence, community justice, criminal justice planning, and corrections population management for jurisdictions and for other national projects and organizations.
C. Support to Policy Change Activities:
- Providing assessments of the public policy environment that favor or impede policy change;
- Providing substantive assistance to policymakers in correctional and public policy analysis and policy development;
- Conducting proposal review, on–site assessment, and site selection of states and counties seeking participation in national projects in which the Center has been involved; and
- Engaging in national assessments of current practices and policies, and articulating future trends and innovations in criminal justice.
The Center has provided these services through its administration and operation of numerous major national projects, technical assistance contracts with individual jurisdictions, and training and research projects.
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