Professional Services

Professional Services to Criminal Justice Agencies

The Center for Gender and Justice assists local, state, national, and international criminal justice agencies by providing expertise, leadership, consultation, training, technical assistance, and services in the following areas:

  • System analysis: analyzes system readiness for gender-responsive approaches
  • Policy review and development: reviews existing policies with respect to women, girls, men, boys, and gender-diverse people and assists in developing gender-responsive and trauma-informed policies
  • Strategic planning: provides facilitation to jurisdictions for short- and long-term planning of gender-responsive approaches to policy and programs
  • Program development: helps to develop gender-responsive, trauma-informed and culturally sensitive services and programs for women, girls, men, boys, and gender-diverse people
  • Training: provides technical assistance and training to administrators and line staff who work with those in criminal justice settings
  • Organizational change: assists agencies in creating a leadership structure that promotes short- and long-term change
  • Assessment: assesses the environment and content of programs in institutional and community-based settings
  • Evaluation: develops outcome measures, evaluation designs, and data-collection instruments
  • Alternatives to incarceration: explores rehabilitative options in lieu of secure custodial settings
  • Community-based services: assists jurisdictions/organizations in developing gender- and trauma-responsive programs and services

Consulting Services

The following list is a representative sample of jurisdictions (past and present) that Drs. Covington and Bloom have worked with:

Prisons

  • Alabama Department of Corrections
  • California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)
  • Correctional Services of Canada
  • Georgia Department of Corrections
  • Hawaii Department of Public Safety
  • Michigan Department of Corrections
  • Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom
  • Vermont Department of Corrections
  • Virginia Department of Corrections

Jails

  • Alameda County Sherrif's Department
  • Cook County Sheriff's Department
  • New York City Department of Corrections
  • San Diego County Sheriff's Department
  • Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department

Probation

  • Alameda County Adult Probation
  • New York City Department of Probation
  • Oxford Probation Services
  • San Francisco County Adult Probation
  • Sonoma County Probation

International

  • Curtin University of Technology, National Drug Research Institute (Australia)
  • Elizabeth Fry Association (Canada)
  • Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center
  • Instituto Mundo Aflora (Brazil)
  • John Howard Society (Canada)
  • One Small Thing (United Kingdom)
  • The Root / Rótin (Iceland)
  • Universität Bern (Switzerland)

Others

  • Amity Foundation
  • Assocation for Justice-Inolved Females and Organizations (AJFO)
  • Bureau of Justice Assistance
  • Connecticut Court Support Services
  • Connecticut Women's Consortium
  • HealthRIGHT 360
  • Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
  • National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
  • Prototypes
  • Wisconsin Department of Health Services
  • Women's Prison Association