Justice Assistance Thursday, September 10, 2015

 The organization continued to support upgrades to the Management Information System (MIS) in both software and hardware.

 ‘Justice Assistance News’ contact list continues to be revised and updated.  The organization’s webpage ( completed its annual upgrade and reconstruction.

 The organization continued to provide technical assistance to the Rhode Island Victim Assistance Portal. Justice Assistance and the Department of the Attorney General remain the exclusive managers of external use access.  The organization continued to work in partnership with the state court administration allowing Justice Assistance access to end user information that includes publicly restricted client data.

 The organization remains highlighted as a link on the state court’s webpage.  The organization continues to be represented on the Public Safety Grant Administration Office Policy Board.  The organization continues to be represented on the Legislative Batterers Intervention Standards Oversight Commission.

 The in-house quality assurance and errors-free evaluation process entered its 5 th year. The organization continued to make the process less subjective by modifying the quantitative values associated with mandatory MIS data points.  In FY2015, the Senior Case Manager was authorized to conduct random control file audits each quarter.

 Justice Assistance remains authorized to collect restitution in cases involving the State Contractors’ Board. The authorization remains a transitional issue involving the matter of a criminal versus a civil judgment.  Authorization for Justice Assistance to collect restitution in cases involving the Department of Labor and Training cases for ‘Failure to Pay Wages’ remained in effect in This too is a transitional matter of criminal versus civil sanctioning.

 For the third consecutive year the organization worked successfully to protect a crime victim’s right to restitution by advocating for the defeat of House Bill H-5188, House Bill H-5417, Senate Bill S-804, and Senate Bill S-593 calling for the decriminalization of shoplifting and disorderly conduct respectively.

 The organization successfully advocated for a Legislative Community Service Grant in the amount of $16,875 to support the Rhode Island Victim Assistance Portal activities.  The organization successfully advocated for a Legislative Community Service Grant in the amount of $100,000 to support the Office of Community Alternatives Pilot Project.

 The organization improved wages for all professional and support staff for the twelfth consecutive year.  The organization continued to provide health care benefits without requiring an employee co-pay.  The organization’s case management staff expanded in FY2015.

 Salaries continued to exceed those of local organizations comparable in size and mission (Source: Non-Profit Management Survey, 2013).  Salaries continue to exceed the organization’s goal of eighty-five percent of comparable Rhode Island public sector positions (Source: RI State Budget, 2015).  Development staff continues to manage and monitor our direct mail annual fund campaign for optimal cost-benefit efficiencies.

 The organization’s external debt remains zero.  The organization continues to receive rental income. Tenants include Flagship Staffing Services and Family Violence Intervention Corporation.

 Non-program income increased by three hundred and thirty-seven percent.  Banking/Bookkeeping user fee income decreased by twenty-one percent.  Management and consulting fee contracts declined by twenty-five percent.

 Government financial support shrunk by twenty-two percent, totaling seventy-four percent of the overall operating budget. The operating budget is now seven percent federally funded and sixty-seven percent state funded.  Client fee collection fell by thirteen percent - transactions increased by one percent.  Special event fundraising improved by eleven percent.

 The William G. Brody Fund was initiated in 2013 to provide financial assistance for indigent clients ordered by the court to receive domestic violence ‘psycho- educational’ counseling. The fund grew by thirty-one percent in FY2015 and is now at thirty-three percent of its total goal.

 The organization voted to open an endowment fund in FY2015. The fund, managed by Greenwood Credit Union, was launched with a $15,000 contribution from a number of individual donors.

 The OCA Pilot Project, in conjunction with the Brown University School of Public Health received a Rhode Island Foundation Strategy Grant. June Rockwell Levy Foundation and the TACO/White Family Fund added additional support.  The Roger Williams University School of Law Spring Symposium, “Sounding the Alarm on Mass Incarceration,” featured the OCA Pilot Project as an example of ‘what works.’

 The organization received forty referrals in FY2015.  Fifteen participants received insurance through HealthSourceRI and twenty-five participants were previously insured. All forty participants were successfully reinsured within the re-enrollment period.

 Twenty-four participants were referred to a behavioral health treatment provider.  Thirty-three participants were referred to a substance abuse treatment provider.  Eighteen participants were referred to a primary care provider.

 Eleven participants gained employment.  Ten participants successfully completed the project.  Eight participants refused to fully participate in the program and were sentenced to a determinant period of time at the ACI.  Four participants were refused admission.

 New court-based referrals totaled one thousand, three hundred and forty-six in fiscal year  Sixty percent of the clients referred successfully completed the program.  Nine percent of the clients referred were sentenced and converted to probation for failure to comply with the court order.

 In FY2015, $116,776 in restitution was collected.  Restitution referrals increased by sixty-nine clients.  The average restitution claim totaled three hundred and fifty dollars.  Eighty-six percent of all restitution referrals paid in full the amount ordered.

 Ten thousand and twenty-five community service hours were ordered in FY2015.  Community service referrals totaled four hundred clients, an increase of sixteen.  The average community service hours ordered per client totaled twenty-six hours.  Seventy-nine percent of all community service referrals fully completed their court ordered requirement.

 In FY2015, four hundred and twenty-five domestic violence related offenses resulted in referrals to specialized counseling, an increase of seven clients, or 2%, over FY2014.  Three hundred and fifty-seven clients, or 84%, of all referrals successfully completed or are on target to complete their court ordered batterers’ intervention requirement.

 One hundred and fifty-nine clients, who committed controlled substance related offenses, were referred to treatment.

 One hundred and eighteen clients were referred to mental health counseling services in FY2015, an increase of eight percent.  Anger management referrals increased to forty-six clients. A growth of one hundred percent.

 Nine hundred and fourteen crime victims were notified of their case status.  Three hundred and sixty crime victims submitted victim impact/statement of loss forms.  Five hundred and eighty-nine crime victims were provided with specialized services or safety plan assistance.

 Seven hundred and fifty-two clients were referred to other agencies for specialized services.  Nine hundred and fourteen clients were provided follow- up services and justice system orientation.

 FY2015: 1,346  FY2014: 1,330  FY2013: 1,601  FY2012: 1,748  FY2011: 1,600 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 489  FY2014: 420  FY2013: 583  FY2012: 537  FY2011: 481 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: $116,776  FY2014: $135,769  FY2013: $159,141  FY2012: $146,451  FY2011: $128,233 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: $350  FY2014: $377  FY2013: $273  FY2012: $273  FY2011: $267 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

PIF C D  FY2015: 86% - 5%-9%  FY2014: 79%-12%-9%  FY2013: 69%-22%-9%  FY2012: 63%-28%-9%  FY2011: 69%-26%-5% FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON Paid-in-full Current Delinquent

 FY2015: 400  FY2014: 384  FY2013: 491  FY2012: 455  FY2011: 494 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 10,025 Hours  FY2014: 10,013 Hours  FY2013: 12,339 Hours  FY2012: 11,489 Hours  FY2011: 14,061 Hours FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 26 Hours  FY2014: 26 Hours  FY2013: 25 Hours  FY2012: 25 Hours  FY2011: 28 Hours FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

P C NP  FY2015: 79%-1%-20%  FY2014: 59%-37%-4%  FY2013: 84%-15%-1%  FY2012: 75%-24%-1%  FY2011: 63%-36%-1% FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON Positive Current Non-Positive

 FY2015: 425  FY2014: 418  FY2013: 326  FY2012: 286  FY2011: 514 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 159  FY2014: 139  FY2013: 218  FY2012: 204  FY2011: 205 FIVE YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 118  FY2014: 83  FY2013: 85  FY2012: 83  FY2011: 81 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

 FY2015: 46  FY2014: 23  FY2013: 44  FY2012: 42  FY2011: 49 FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON