ICJIA Mission: To improve criminal justice administration via policy, grants, research, and tech.
Guess what? 👀
ICJIA’s Office of Fiscal 💵Management is hiring an Accountant Supervisor to assist with the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) program.
Our ideal candidate has a:
✅Passion for Public Service
✅Solid Finance Background
✅Desire to transform justice reform
Apply Now!
http://ow.ly/1swP50MbR5P
Deadline: January 3, 2023
Habari Gani!
Today begins a seven-day celebration of , , and .
Red.🟥 Black. ⬛ Green.🟩 Read what it means and learn the seven principles of .
To all who celebrate,
Merry Christmas🎄 to everyone celebrating!
May your day be filled with peace ☮and joy🤗!
Please stay safe and warm!
💗 Team ICJIA
ICJIA is the state’s agency dedicated to improving justice.
Our celebrates some of ICJIA's policies, programs, and partnerships that impact communities across .
Every day, ICJIA advances , and in our most vulnerable communities and people.
In 2023, we will continue striving to be the justice seekers that the state and its residents deserve.
Access to 📚can make what seems impossible possible.
Adler University’s Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes (IREEO) program makes obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Psychology a reality for some incarcerated individuals.👨🏽🎓
ICJIA supports justice reform through grants. Last week, the budget committee approved funds to further the IREEO program. 👏🏻👏🏿
📌More about IREEO: http://ow.ly/SB1j50MbP4q.
💰Budget Summary: http://ow.ly/iQj750MbP4r
ICJIA’s Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) initiative is making an statewide!🎉🎉
ARI administers state grant funds to incentivize local jurisdictions to divert rather than detain.
The programs prove to be more effective and less expensive. 👏🏼👏🏿👏🏻
Do you want to learn more about our approach? Yes 👇🏽https://icjia.illinois.gov/adultredeploy/approach/ebps
Gentle reminder: Violence Prevention NOFO💬
Due January 9, 2023✅
📢Calling community-based organizations in Albany Park & Irving Park.
Violence has a ripple effect in our communities that impacts individuals, their families, friends, and loved ones.💔
ICJIA's funding 💰opportunity covers funeral and medical expenses and trauma-informed case management.
Click here🎯http://ow.ly/5Sxt50M8OWH
`Tis the season!🎄
We love 💗seeing how ICJIA funding is making an in the community!
Youth With A Positive Direction, located in Decatur, is a violence prevention and street intervention program grantee.
Thank you 🙏🏾for your kind message and for sharing photos from the Community Xmas dinner and concert. 🎶
Shout out to the young people (ages 9 to 18) who sang!
Learn. Earn. Heal. Thrive. 🙌🏽 That is what Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) inspires families to do.
ICJIA’s R3 grantee MFS offers behavioral and mental health counseling. In addition, community members can take advantage of free legal ⚖aid services.
MFS's workforce development program trains residents and aids in their job search.
Thank you, Executive Director Pamela Terrell and team, for your dedication. MFS impacts the lives of many.
http://ow.ly/jUi450M7SO1
To everyone who begins celebrating the holiday season this evening at sunset,
Happy Hanukkah.
Chag Sameach.
We hope each night of Hanukkah is full of light.
💗Team ICJIA
Gun violence is a public health crisis.💔
Investments in programs that address root causes and violence prevention are necessary to combat gun violence.
Thank you for inviting Executive Director Delrice Adams to have a seat and voice at the table.
Hearing articles:
📌http://ow.ly/QQmT50M6lR1
📌https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-committee-holds-second-hearing-on-potential-assault-weapon-ban/
National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Metro Suburban is cutting ✂️barriers to employment and expanding the program.
The R3 grantee also provides mental health support and services in Summit, Berwyn and Cicero, IL.
Thank you for inviting Executive Director Adams to be part of your celebration! 🙌🏽
For more about NAMI 👉🏼https://namimetsub.org
Investing in the community is what ICJIA does. 🎯
Yesterday, ICJIA’s Budget Committee approved one future funding opportunity and awarded nearly $47.6 million in grants to agencies and organizations across Illinois.
We call this 📢 .
Budget summary👇🏽
http://ow.ly/OOR650M68Pa
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The New Year is meant for new beginnings. 🎉🎈
So, why not make working at ICJIA your New Year's resolution? 😁
We are growing. Grow with us!
Two positions, Two deadlines! 👀
Apply Now: https://icjia.illinois.gov/about/employment
ICJIA's Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) initiative has directed $70M in grants that have served 8K residents since 2011.
Annually, over 1K individuals choose to enter into a community-based program. 🙌🏽
There are 27 ARI grantees across 44 Illinois counties.
ARI program success🤗 story 👉🏼http://ow.ly/516P50M4CL0
📌ARI Sites: http://ow.ly/znoQ50M4CKZ
ICJIA grantee Phalanx Family Services makes an by empowering youth and families in West Pullman.
funds support youth job placement, mentoring, family services, and employment certifications👩🏽⚕️👷🏽♀️.
Phalanx is building a greenhouse to produce 🍊🥬🥕food that will feed families in the community.
For Trainings & Certifications: 🎯👇🏽
https://www.phalanxgrpservices.org/services
Survivors need a safe space to heal, a place to call home.
ICJIA's new grant opportunity funds agencies that support survivors' essential needs, i.e., housing🏡, job training🙋🏽♀️, childcare 👶🏽, and therapy ☮.
Funded programs will assist survivors of domestic violence, trafficking, gender hostility, and labor abuse with transitional housing services.
👀Application deadline: January 18, 2023
📢Apply Now!
http://ow.ly/p9Nw50M1CTm
ICJIA’s R3 grantee Emerald South is impacting the community through economic development.
In collaboration with Terra Firma, Emerald South has embarked upon a five-year $25M land 🌼care initiative on Chicago’s South side.
R3 funding supports green industry training 👩🏽🌾and other entrepreneurship 👨🏽🎓programs for adults and youth.
Thank you, President & CEO Ghian Foreman, for your vision to transform the community.
https://emeraldsouth.org/terra-firma
ICJIA impacts communities across 365 days a year.
The agency offers:
✅ Research that informs
✅ Equity-based grant funding opportunities
✅ Justice reformed policymaking
✅ Quality victim service data/technology
To kick off this holiday season 🎄, we celebrate 🎉ICJIA’s on the community.
Join us as we uplift work that invests in the and its people.
ICJIA’s grant-funded youth development programs build and develop future leaders. 💪🏾💪🏼💪
Thank you, Lexi Smith, SIMP, Inc.student leader from Decatur, Illinois, for being the light in dark places! 🤗
You are a shining star!⭐
More on SIMP: http://ow.ly/fBRL50LZFEi
ICJIA Research Manager Jessica Reichert, RAND Corporation and TASC, Inc. (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) presented on police deflection at the American Society of Criminology's annual meeting.
📌Deflection is a collaborative .
📌Deflection promotes public and public health.
📌Deflection creates pathways to , not justice involvement.
Social service workers with lived experience are essential in supporting survivors of homicide. 🤍
Caring for workers who support the survivors is critical. 🤍
ICJIA’s researchers found these vital workers experience burnout, compassion fatigue, and indirect trauma.🤍
This article explores the benefits, challenges, solutions, and self-care practices for staff who .
http://ow.ly/KSAj50LYw6x
Equitable funding opens many doors! 💨
The National Diversity & Inclusion Cannabis Alliance’s (NDICA) mission seeks to advance in the cannabis industry.
With its focus on , NDICA uses R3 funds to provide technical assistance and help community members secure jobs.
Thank you for creating pathways of opportunity. ⭐
For info: http://ow.ly/HxOp50LXXU5
Our diverse and passionate team at NDICA works daily to create equitable employment and ownership opportunities in the h**p and cannabis space.
ICJIA seeks 👀 a solution-oriented attorney!
Are you a great attorney who gets the details 📚and ❤ loves to listen?
If so, please consider joining our team.
Deadline is December 9, 2022:
https://icjia.illinois.gov/about/employment/psc-attorney-part-time-req-21527/
Organizations care about community healing.
This aids Albany Park and Irving Park neighborhood organizations in funeral and medical expenses for victims of violence and their families.
Trauma-informed case management services costs are included as part of the grant.
https://icjia.illinois.gov/grants/funding/albany-park-irving-park-vp-nofo-3048-1222/
ICJIA’s Human Resource Department is the glue the keeps the agency together.
We have an opening in Springfield!
Do you check the boxes?
✅ Conflict Resolution Skills
✅ Effective Communication
✅ Problem Solving
Yes! Join our team!
https://illinois.jobs2web.com/job/Springfield-HUMAN-RESOURCES-SPECIALIST-IL-62701/961830500/
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Every child deserves a champion. 🏆
Macon County CASA - serving Macon & DeWitt Counties serves 438 foster children.
funding provides young people access to educational support and residential placement. ✨
We salute the staff members and volunteers for their commitment to the community.
For more information: www.maconcountycasa.org
Milestone anniversaries are to be celebrated! 🎈
This week, ICJIA Exec. Director Adams, Mayor Lightfoot, the Illinois Housing Development Authority and others joined St. Leonard's Ministries St. Andrew’s Court re-dedication ceremony.
For 25 years, the property has secured housing for justice system-impacted men. The vision is and will continue to change lives.
Macon County CASA was happy to host a visit with Shareef Taylor, the Community Engagement Liaison from Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority today at our downtown Decatur offices! We had the opportunity to chat about the powerful work and outcomes of our CASA employees and volunteer advocates! Thanks to ICJIA for their support of Macon County CASA through the VOCA & R3 grants! ❤️💙
Photos from Illinois Housing Development Authority's post
📢ICJIA will soon launch the Institute 2 Innovate (i2i) initiative, a first-of-its-kind capacity-building program. 💪💪🏼💪🏾
We seek to contract skilled subject matter experts to lead and facilitate i2i workshops.
Interested? Please submit the form 👇🏽
http://ow.ly/XfOQ50LRvIc
For more on i2i 👀: http://ow.ly/7g9j50LRvIf
Capacity building is about building and strengthening communities together.
Last week, ICJIA Director Delrice Adams joined Nonprofit Utopia’s Capacity Building & Beyond program kickoff! 💥
The community had an opportunity to network, build leadership skills, and receive grant funding training! ✍🏽
Thank you, State Representative Lakesia Collins, for your inspiring words, and program instructors for sharing your expertise!
https://nonprofitutopia.mn.co/?fbclid=IwAR2UPmyqIZeTwdGWLp1HwFimg9RMo81J7MLr22EgyIJ45VCPzfhZmZv7crA
Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) aids justice system-impacted individuals needing legal services.
With a goal of , and , grantee ILAO’s program serves individuals facing eviction, seeking records expungement, and more at no cost. ⚖️
https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/
🗣 Restorative Justice is about:
❤️Relationship.
❤️Respect.
❤️Responsibility.
❤️Repair.
❤️Reintegration.
Restorative Justice is about healing the harm.
Restorative justice creates a safe space for and .
Let’s honor the journey toward . ☮️
Today we thank our many state and local partners for helping us bring , and to communities across . 🦃
Have a peaceful holiday!
Transitional is just the beginning for R3 grantee Community Center Commission (CCC) clients.
CCC offers justice system-impacted men and women and their children a place to call home in Sangamon County. 🏡
CCC also offers its residents courses in:
Financial literacy
Computer skills
Life skills coaching
Job readiness
Thank you CEO Demon Johnson & staff for making a difference.
The best way to heal is by doing it together.
The Healing Beyond Harm Restorative Justice Pilot provides a safe space for those harmed and those who caused harm to communicate and reconcile. ☮
A therapeutic justice practitioner creates a healing dialogue on the impact of harm between and justice system-impacted individuals.
SIMP, Inc. has the media buzzing. 🎥
Last week, ICJIA Exec. Director Delrice Adams met with staff and students from Sherrod’s Independent Mentoring Program (SIMP, Inc.). Youth mentoring and women’s programs are funded by 💲.
👀 the WCIA interview segment 👇🏽
http://ow.ly/c7va50LKn99
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) – “It’s so meaningful, it’s so needed. It’s important that as a society we understand what is true public safety,” Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (…
Having a State ID increases the chances to secure access to 👨🏽💼, 🏠, 📚, and vital ⛑ services.
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton's Initiative launched the State ID Program for Returning Residents in collaboration with the Illinois Secretary of State and Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).
The program started in 2021 at two facilities (Lincoln and Logan) and in almost 2 years, has grown to 27 facilities throughout the state.
Over 1K system-impacted residents leaving IDOC facilities that have received state IDs since April 2021.
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ICJIA’s domestic violence support extends beyond October. Grantees receive funding to #SupportSurvivors throughout the year. Here are a few agencies that #SupportSurvivors. #EndDVIllinois
ICJIA’s domestic violence grant #support stretches into Illinois' rural communities. Last year, ICJIA-funded domestic violence (DV) service providers reported supporting over 12K survivors in rural #Illinois. #InfoNet #DV service providers that #SupportSurvivors in rural communities: ☮️Oasis Women’s Center – Alton https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/il/alton/62002/oasis-women-s-center ☮️Freedom House – Princeton https://www.freedomhouseillinois.org/ ☮️HOPE of East Central Illinois – Charleston https://hope-eci.org/ ICJIA #SupportsSurvivors ✊ #DVAM2022 #EndDVIllinois #DVAM
We are saying it loud for the people in the back! 📢 ICJIA congratulates Illinois Prison Project 2022 Advocate of the Year, Yaacov Delaney. 🏆 He is living proof that where you start is not always where you end up. From system-impacted to Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton's Director of the #Justice, #Equity, and #Opportunity Initiative; Yaacov’s journey has come full circle. 🔄 The sky’s the limit! We salute you, sir! 💪 Thank you for being the #wisdom that is in the room! 🤝 Your story is powerful! Hear for yourself ⏬ #Reentry #SecondChances
Hispanic History is American History! 🎊💃 🥳 Today begins a month-long celebration of the #history, #culture, #traditions and #contributions of Hispanic Americans. We recognize those whose linkage is from 🇪🇸, 🇲🇽, 🇵🇷, 🇩🇴 and South and Central America! You make this country great! Join us as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Drop a fact or photo or share a tradition or memory in comments! ⏬ #HispanicHeritageMonth #Latinx #Explore #Hispanic
Here's our last R3 Grant Application FAQ of 2022! View all FAQs here: https://r3.illinois.gov/faqs/ Applications are due TOMORROW at 2PM! R3 Grantees on the way!!! #R3Grant #FAQ #1Day
With the deadline quickly approaching, we know that you might have some last-minute questions. Check out the newly updated R3 FAQs here: https://r3.illinois.gov/faqs/ Still need answers? Last chance to submit R3 NOFO Questions must be submitted TODAY! Email [email protected] #R3 #Community #Justice #FAQ
🗣🗣🗣 CALL FOR GRANT APPLICATION REVIEWERS! 🗣🗣🗣 Do you want to help make a change in your community? Volunteer to review #R3 applications. Click here: http://ow.ly/RHmY50I2mUn #Restore. #Reinvest. #Renew.
re·stor·a·tive jus·tice noun a system of criminal justice that focuses on rehabilitating justice-impacted people through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. The Restore, Reinvest, Renew (#R3) program's funds continuously contribute to the critical work being done in many developing communities. These funds not only circulate through organizations, empowering negatively affected individuals, but they are also a stepping stone to the consolidation of those affected by violence and inequity and the vision of an evolving, thriving community. The R3 Grant is a way to restore justice by our communities and within our communities. Be sure to apply for the #R3 Grant before March 1! https://r3.illinois.gov #Restorative #Justice #R3 #Community
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