Inside this issue:

Strategic Planning Update

2

Shout Outs 2

2012 Annual Spring Reception Success

3

Representing CRJ in China

4

Georgia Criminal Justice Reform

5

Horizon House Community Impact

5

HR Highlights 6

CRJ Employee Newsletter

MAY 2012 Watson House Re-Opens By: Liz Curtin, Director of Social Justice Services

Contributors:

Barbara Pierce Bill Coughlin Daniel Robertello Ellen Taylor Eula Kozma Gabriella Priest John Larivee Laura Anderson Liz Curtin

For the past four and one-half years, CRJ’s Watson House in Cambridge, MA has been home to our Watson Acad-emy, with no residents at the house. That all changed on Monday, May 14, when Watson House officially re-opened as an extension of our contract with the Depart-ment of Children and Families (DCF). Similar to our Sar-gent House program, Watson House will serve up to six young men, between the ages of 18 and 22, who have aged out of the DCF system but who are still in need of services until they can transition to a DMH or DDS situa-tion at the age of 22. The first two young men moved in on May 14, and we expect to be at capacity with 6 residents early this summer. Both Sar-gent and Watson will be overseen by Len Andrews as the Director, with Assistant Director Alicia Opidee at Sargent, and Assistant Director Dwight Williams at Watson. Much was needed to be done at the program prior to opening, in particular cleaning up the extensive back yard area. On Friday, May 11th, a number of CRJ volunteers worked with the newly hired Watson House staff and spent the day cleaning, rototilling, weeding, and seeding. It was a great show of CRJ teamwork with the following staff on board: John Larivee (CEO), Bill Coughlin (COO), Paul Swindlehurst (CAO), Rick McCrossan (CFO) (thanks for delivering the rototiller), Laura Anderson (Advancement), Julie Finn (CJI), Eula Kozma (and Duke) (Advancement), John Rogers (Facilities), Richard Kelsey (Facilities), Howard Jardine (STS) (and Isabella), Marcy Rosenthal (SJS), Dick Guy (SJS), Tito Rodriguez (SJS), and Raphael Medina (Tech Services). An incredible amount of work was accomplished and the day ended with the yard (front, back, and side) looking better than it has in a long time. Thanks to everyone who helped out!

As Yogi Berra once said, “You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.” After a full-day Strategic Planning session on February 29th, the leadership of CRJ has determined where we want to be by the end of FY2015. It will be up to all of us to work together to make sure we get there. Admittedly, not everyone gets jazzed up about Strategic Planning, but we do all want to build the best organization possible so that we can increase the achievement of positive outcomes for our clients and increase safety within the communities in which we live and work. Toward that end, we are working hard to ensure that CRJ’s 3-year plan is aligned with these outcomes and is clear and accessible to all staff. Continued on Page 2

Strategic Planning Update By: Barbara Pierce, Managing Associate

Laura Anderson (Advancement), Julie Finn (CJI), and Watson House Staffer

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To Tim Perdue, Quality Assurance Manager, Susan Jenness Phillips, S&QA Department Director, and Ellen Donnarumma, Senior Director of Busi-ness Development for their incredible effort in getting CRJ qualified to do work with the Connecticut depart-ment of Developmental Services. To Kellyanne Lynch (Franklin Resi-dence), Yemi Payne (CS), Ernie Goodno (Hampshire House), Matt LeFrancois (Hampshire House), Eula Kozma (Advancement), Adrienne Methot (HR)Sergio Reyes (Tech Ser-vices), Samantha Bugler (S&QA), Tim Perdue (S&QA), Gabriella Priest (CJI), Sarah Savage (CJI), Eric Scharf (Business Development), Deborah Hopkins (CS), Paul Blaney (Brooke House) and Helen Tocchio (McGrath House) who have all made excellent presentations to the CRJ Board of Di-rectors in the past few months.

To Dick Guy, Deputy Director of SJS, Tito Rodriquez, Deputy Director of SJS, Paul Blaney, Brooke House Pro-gram Director, and Helen Tocchio, McGrath House Program Director, who met with the Board’s Program Committee on May 7 at Brooke House to brief them on activities at their pro-grams. To Elizabeth Curtin, SJS Department Director, for celebrating her 25th anni-versary with CRJ! Only John Larivee and Susan Jenness Phillips have served here longer. To Trizah Kimani, Program Manager at Leominster /Pleasant, Jeremiah Baker, Program manager at Windsor and three of our Resident Counselor Staff who were complimented by our land-lord in Shirley for handling a consumer crisis in manner that did not disturb our neighbors in the building.

To the CSMA Dance Committee — Danielle Rowella (individual from Merriam-Leo), Michelle McCormick (CSMA), Janet Szlyk (CSMA), Sue Whitney (CSMA), Kris Kelley (CSMA), and Daniel Cluff (Shirley Office) for fundraising for CSNH. They raised $300.00 to help get a much appreci-ated new BBQ grill. To John Larivee (CEO), Bill Coughlin (COO), Paul Swindlehurst (CAO), Rick McCrossan (CFO), Liz Curtin (SJS), Laura Anderson (Advancement), Julie Finn (CJI), Eula Kozma (Advancement), John Rogers (Facilities), Richard Kel-sey (Facilities), Howard Jardine (STS), Marcy Rosenthal (SJS), Dick Guy (SJS), Tito Rodriguez (SJS), Raphael Medina (Tech Services), and Watson House Staff for all of their help on Friday, May 11th in preparation of the re-opening of Watson House!

SHOUT OUTS

Strategic Planning Update Continued from Page 1 We are doing some last minute ‘wordsmithing’ and ‘negotiating’ of goals (where we want to be) and targets (how we will know we go there). Once you receive a copy of the plan, please review each goal and ask yourself what you can do to contribute to meeting the targets. Then, ask your co-workers and continue those discussions so that our actions are collectively moving us in the right direction.

How CRJ Achieves its Mission

Achieve Performance Excellence. We use evidence-based practices, metrics and our internal capacity to continuously improve our programs and services.

Lead Our Professional Fields with Innovation. As a learning organization, we challenge the status quo and our way of doing business with new products and services responsive to the needs of clients and customers.

Delight Our Customers with the Quality of Services and Programs. Our customers, supporters and neighbors report that CRJ outperforms expectations.

Advance Our Workforce and Workplace. Our recruitment, development and retention practices result in a talented, professional and stable workforce, and we optimize technology to support a learning or-ganization.

Grow Our Revenue and Operating Surplus. Our increased resources ensure that our services, programs and expertise are of the highest quality, benefit more clients, enhance community safety and advance the field.

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2012 Annual Spring Reception Success By: Advancement Department

At the 2012 Annual Spring Reception, CRJ honored James T. Brett , President of the New England Council, for his many contributions in the fields of intellectual disabilities and criminal justice. The Advancement Department would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who helped to make the evening a success! Thank you to our fantastic volunteers – Leah Dai (Fiscal), Brandon Miles (CJI), Nat Pathumarak (Fiscal), Scott Perrin (Fiscal), Gabriella Priest (CJI), Jesse Revicki (CJI), Ellinor Rogers (CJI), Sandy Tarlow (CSMA), Ellen Taylor (HR), and Michelle Welch (Fiscal). Thank you to our Emerging Leaders in attendance – Mandy Adao (CSMA), Maria Alexson (HR), Leonard Andrews (STS), Julie Finn (CJI), Eula Kozma (Advancement), Dan Robetello (Horizon), and Tia Tallman (CSNH). Lastly, thank you to our Department Heads in attendance— Liz Curtin (SJS), Len Engel (CJI), Deborah Hopkins (CSMA), Cindy Kassanos (Fiscal), Adrienne Methot (HR), John Rogers (Facilities), and Eric Scharf (Business Development).

Terry Burch (CRJ Clinician), Deborah Hop-kins (CRJ Department Director), Janice and Elliot Greenberg (CRJ Friends)

Thank You to our Leadership Sponsors

Albert and Diane Kaneb

Daniel E. Rothenberg Annette and Robert Hanson

Greg Torres and Betsy Pattullo

Jeremy and Kerry Sclar Tom and Midge DeSimone

Michelle Harris (Plum Productions Owner), Sally Kerans (CRJ Friend), Eula Kozma (CRJ Advancement Manager)

Michelle Welch (CRJ Senior Accountant) and Nat Pathumarak (CRJ Senior Finan-cial Analyst)

Adrienne Methot (CRJ Human Resources Director) and a CRJ Friend

Paul Swindlehurst (CRJ Chief Advance-ment Officer) and John Larivee (CRJ Chief Executive Officer)

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John Larivee was asked by the US State Department to join its delegation for a dialogue with officials from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The meetings were held in Beijing on April 24 and 25, 2012. The US delegation was headed by Harold Koh, Legal Adviser of the Department of State who is on leave from Yale Law School where he served as Dean from 2004 to 2009; and Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and former Executive Director and President of Human Rights First. The PRC delegation included members of the Supreme People’s Court and National Peo-ple’s Congress, officials from the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security and Su-preme People’s Procurotorate, and representatives of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and All China Lawyers’ Association. The agenda included four items, including Community Corrections which John led the discussion along with Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Judge Huvelle sits on the US District Court for the District of Columbia and earlier in her career served as law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

In the discussion on Community Corrections, the PRC delegation referenced pilot projects begun in 2003 in seven locations and noted that recent national legislation to expand such programming na-tionally was based on the experience of those pilots. The presentation by the Ministry of Justice fo-cused on the challenges of implementation of the law, including limited resources (staff skills and program options), agency and staff resistance to change of practice, and weak public understand-ing. John described his work with the community corrections pilot in the Xuhui District of Shanghai in 2004-05 and congratulated the Ministry of Justice for its work to expand community corrections nationally. He reviewed the evidence-based principles that guide CRJ’s community corrections work, both on policy initiatives and our direct service programs. Finally, there was discussion of collabora-tive efforts that could follow.

The other agenda items and discussion leaders included:

Role of Lawyers - Honorable Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court; and Bill Neukom, Presi-dent & CEO of The World Justice Project and former general counsel of Microsoft;

Legal Aid – Ira Belkin, Ford Foundation Program Officer stationed in Beijing working on law and rights issues, and for-mer federal prosecutor; and Ben Liebman, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies.

Counterterrorism & Human Rights – Julie Fernandes, Director of the Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking and former deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice; and Sarah Cleveland, Professor in Human and Constitutional Rights and Columbia Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute.

While in Beijing, the delegation had a dinner meeting with Gary Locke, US Ambassador to China, and visited the Sunshine Halfway House of Chaoy-ang District. Since his return, John has had follow-up communications with Mr. Sujun Zhang, Vice Minister in the Ministry of Justice, and Ms. Xie Yuni, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Community Correc-tions. We are replying to Mr. Sujun’s inquiry about our ability to train some PRC corrections officials in evidence-based research and evidence-based practice in community corrections and prison/jail management.

Representing CRJ in China By: John Larivee, Chief Executive Officer

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In the summer of 2011, the Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project and the Crime and Justice Insti-tute at CRJ were invited to the state of Georgia by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice, and Speaker of the House to analyze their corrections system and identify areas that could be changed in order to improve public safety. An analysis of growth trends showed that if Georgia did nothing, they would add an additional $264 million dollars to their corrections budget, which is already at over $1 billion dollars. The data also showed that over 60% of Georgia’s prison admissions were drug and property offenders. Pew and CJI presented a thorough review of Georgia’s data, re-search on evidence-based practices, and examples of how other states have addressed growth in their systems. Pew and CJI worked with the Governor’s Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform for Georgians to assist with forming recom-mendations, met with numerous legislators and system stakeholders to advance the council’s recommendations into legislation, and aided the Joint Committee on Criminal Justice Reform in the drafting of legislation. The bill passed both the House and Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by Governor Nathan Deal on May 2nd. What does the final bill do?

Reduces length of sentences for drug possession offenses;

Implements a weight-based drug system;

Establishes a graduated scale of sentences based on the type of forgery;

Raises the felony theft threshold from $500 to $1500;

Creates degrees of burglary to account for the seriousness of the offense and differentiates between residential and non-residential burglaries;

Mandates the use of evidence-based practices; and

Requires policies and practices for drug and mental health courts. Len Engel, Gabriella Priest, Colby Ward, and Jessicalee Taddeo all worked strenuously on this project, and their work was instrumental in producing a successful outcome. An email from the Director of Pew’s Public Safety Performance Pro-ject shows how grateful they are for the work completed and how important CJI’s role was on the project: “GA is a huge victory and it couldn’t have happened without the contributions from CJI. It was another real team effort, and everyone here just continues to build respect and affection for you guys…So congrats to you as well, and I look forward to much more through the rest of the year and beyond.”

Georgia Criminal Justice Reform By: Gabriella Priest, Research Assistant

As Community Resources for Justice’s first program in New York State, we are always looking for ways to gage the impact we’re having in the community and with our neighbors. In late March, we learned that our hard work is truly paying off. Mrs. Faulkner, a lifelong resident of Albany’s South End neighborhood, came to present the staff of the Horizon House with four freshly baked loaves of her locally known zucchini bread. Our neighbor provided these treats to the team as a form of thanks for shoveling her sidewalk during the winter, keeping the block free from debris, and adding greenery to the histori-cally green-less neighborhood. Mrs. Faulkner went on to state that she has had truly pleas-ant interactions with the Horizon House staff and residents alike, noting that she feels safer in her home with CRJ next door.

While this interaction highlights the efforts of the Horizon House staff, it also speaks to the culture of Community Re-

sources for Justice. In addition to providing top-quality services to our respective populations of need, our organization

is ever committed to enhancing the quality of life for those around us, specifically our neighbors. Although our day-to-

day operations can feel overwhelming, it is essential that we approach all of our interactions with the goals of creating,

strengthening, and sustaining relationships with current and potential stakeholders.

Horizon House Community Impact By: Daniel Robertello, Program Manager at Horizon

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