1. Maximizing LPSCC Capacity Grant
“Well-functioning criminal justice coordinating councils can be vitally important resources for local governments as they seek to fulfill their mandates to assure public safety and fair treatment of all, while coping with reduced budgets. The councils can provide a forum for identifying issues and, depending on their structure and role in county or city government, can be instrumental in setting priorities, allocating resources, and planning to address key systemic issues.”
- Improving Criminal Justice System Planning and Operations: Challenges for Local Governments and Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils

2. Project Overview Funding: $1.875 million
Duration: October September 2019
Proposal: Fund and train professional LPSCC coordinators to be shared between groups of 2-5 counties. Coordinators will provide analytical and administrative support, facilitate county-level collaboration, and assist LPSCC membership in identifying and addressing local public safety challenges, goals and planning needs.
Coordinators will be employed by the Association of Oregon Counties.

3. County Sites Hood River, Wasco, Gilliam, Sherman, Wheeler
Yamhill, Polk
Crook, Jefferson
Josephine, Douglas
Umatilla, Morrow
Klamath, Lake

4. Primary Functions of Criminal Justice Coordinating Staff*
Facilitation
Research and Analysis
Presentation and Instruction
Project Management
Consultation
Information Clearinghouse
* National Institute of Corrections “Guidelines for Staffing a Local Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee”

5. And in Oregon... Data gathering, basic analysis and presentation
Group facilitation before, during and after meetings
Grant opportunity identification and application preparation
“Keeping the ball rolling” from meeting to meeting
Assist with Justice Reinvestment grant program planning and application
Facilitate cross-system collaboration specifically related to housing and mental health
Reinvigorate and maintain LPSCC functioning
Move away from “reporting” to real collaboration on substantive, locally-identified issues

6. Training National Policy Consensus Center
Portland State University
Sequenced training sessions for coordinators and council chairs
Facilitation of peer-to-peer meetings of coordinators
Personal consultation and mentorship
Coordinated online resource platform

7. Coordinators will gain new insights, skills and systems for:
Training
Coordinators will gain new insights, skills and systems for:
Building and repairing collaborative relationships
Improving collaborative decision making
Accelerating collaborative action and positive community impacts
Managing differences in perspective and conflicting opinions
Leveraging scarce resources through collaboration
Facilitating joint commitment and action