VIRGINIA COMMUNITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION
Enhancing Public Safety Across the Commonwealth
The Virginia Community Criminal Justice Association (VCCJA) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of criminal justice agencies from across Virginia. Whether pretrial services, local probation, or other criminal justice initiatives, our shared goal is improving individual and community safety through evidence-based practices and accountability. Learn more about our work and the work of our partners using the button below.
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Virginia’s Presence at the NAPSA Annual Conference
Virginia's Presence at The National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies 51st Annual Conference and Training [...]
Responding to Pretrial Compliance and Noncompliance
Advancing Pretrial Policy & Research (APPR) technical assistance consultants organized and facilitated a workshop titled [...]
A New Way to VPRAI: The Public Safety Assessment
Team Leads from the original pilot sites (Richmond Department of Justice Services-Division of Adult Programs, [...]
Looking Back: Six Months Without Money Bond In Illinois
Six months ago today, Illinois implemented the Pretrial Fairness Act and became the first state in [...]
What Is Risk Assessment | Bureau of Justice Assistance
Local, state and federal criminal justice agencies have increasingly adopted data-driven decision making to [...]
VA FAACT – Commonwealth Opioid Response | Virginia Open Data Portal
Learn about Virginia’s Framework for Addiction Analysis and Community Transformation (FAACT) and recent project [...]
Recovering addicts work to help others in ‘Project Recover’ – WTOP News
Learn about Project Recover in Central Virginia.
Peer Support Specialists: An Underutilized Resource in the Criminal Justice System | Journal of Addiction Medicine
Given the known association between individuals with an OUD and exposure to the criminal justice [...]