Community Services

Report: Reforming felony threshold for theft would not increase crime rates
150 150 Nadine Ono

New data shows that states could likely reduce costs of incarceration without a negative impact on crime.

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VIDEO: Innovative program shows way to graduation, not incarceration
150 150 John Guenther

Partnership with community college helps formerly incarcerated students with housing and support to succeed and not return to jail.

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Sentencing Reform and Redemption, California Style
150 150 Jim Mayer

In correcting a mistake with sentencing reform, Governor Brown’s move could open the door to create cost-effective, smart and humane criminal justice strategies in California.

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How culture shift and data redefined probation success in Riverside County
150 150 Nadine Ono

Focusing on results and data helped staff rethink about what their department could do to lessen the burden on the jails.

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California Economic Summit on Community College Chancellor Search
150 150 Ed Coghlan

The California Economic Summit Workforce and Advancing Manufacturing teams urge President Geoffrey Baum and Vice President Cecilia Estolano to select a Chancellor committed to accelerating the alignment between employers and educational and training institutions to improve meeting workforce needs while benefiting students and their families.

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Ever Forward: CA Fwd’s 2015 Year in Review
150 150 Ed Coghlan

Look back at a productive year for California Forward in its goal to make the California Dream more attainable for all.

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CA Fwd and Riverside County put data to work on jail overcrowding
150 150 Nadine Ono

The county probation department successfully used data analysis to create a 25 percent reduction in probation violations since spring of 2014.

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Education working group CSBA/CA Fwd Collaborative garners statewide attention
150 150 Susan Lovenburg

Collaboration of school districts and education leaders presents year of promising practices implementing California’s Local Control Funding Formula schools reform.

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