Centerforce is looking for someone to fill a Program Coordinator position for Safe Transitions. See the full job posting and how to apply here.
30th Annual Child Abuse Symposium
This symposium on how to foster safety for our children will be held on Friday, April 20, 2012 at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel from 9 am to 4:30 pm.
The early registration cost is $60 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, snacks and parking.
Centerforce’s own Executive Director, Carol F. Burton will be speaking at the event!
See the attached flyer for details and registration information!
FREE one-day conference on Improving HIV Care and Linkages
This is a free one-day conference on improving HIV care and linkage as it pertains to incarcerated populations.
The event will be held on Wednesday, May 9,2012 at the Berkeley Doubletree Hotel in Berkeley, CA from 8am to 4:30.
Centerforce’s own Naomi Prochovnick will be speaking at the event!
See the attached flyer for more information!
Improving HIV Care and Linkage Conference Flyer
How Have Counties Responded to the Public Safety Realignment Act?
“After decades of ‘tough on crime’ policies and draconian sentencing practices, the state correctional system – one of the largest incarcerators in the largest incarcerating country in the world – finally buckled under its own weight, ” is the opening line of the just-released ACLU report on how counties are responding to the Public Safety Realignment Act that will allow those who have committed non-violent, low-level, non sex-crimes to finish their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons.
Click the link below to read more!
ACLU realignment Report Indicates Many Counties Ill-Prepared for Alternatives to Incarceration
Brief on New Performance Incentive Program in California
Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project has just released a brief (Pew_California_probation_brief) that summarizes encouraging early results of a new performance incentive program in California.
California’s Probation Performance Incentive Funding Program, which took effect in 2010, rewards county probation departments for reducing recidivism by sharing with them about half of the savings that the state realizes by not having to incarcerate violators and repeat offenders. The brief highlights key outcome measures from the program and discusses next steps in California’s performance incentive funding program in light of the recent state-local prison realignment plan.
We hope you find this publication useful to your work in protecting public safety, holding offenders accountable, and controlling corrections costs.
Further reading:
Strengthen Community Corrections
Maximum Impact: Targeting Supervision on Higher-Risk People, Places and Times
Do social determinants of crime matter in a welfare state?
Do social determinants of crime matter in a welfare state?
Attached are handouts from a presentation done at CSU Fresno by PhD Candidate Mikko Aaltonen that examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and crime in Finland.
PAID High School Student Internship Opportunity
Open to interested 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students! Make $10.25 per hour! Read the flyer to learn more!
President Obama is coming to San Francisco!!
Creative Edge Public Relations
The event takes place February 16, 2012. Doors open at 6 pm!
Seminar Examines California, Finland’s Justice System
This seminar sought to address the question: How do the cultures or correction in Finland and California handle lawbreakers, crime prevention and allow lawbreakers to make amends and return to society.
Read more to learn more!
Volunteer Position with First 5 Marin Children and Families Commission
Volunteer for a 2 year service period to serve on the commission and work with 8 other individuals as well as the staff of First 5 Marin!