Iowa FY24 SJSP

The Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning (CJJP), Iowa’s Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) is seeking funding for both core-capacity building and special-emphasis categories. Under the core-capacity building area, the Iowa SAC is proposing to migrate the Justice Data Warehouse (JDW) from a Teradata server to the Google platform. This migration will result in annual cost savings, improved efficiencies in security, scalability, query processing, and provide some additional capabilities for analytics, dashboards and the utilization of machine learning. The second project is proposed under the special-emphasis area.  As part of the SJS-SAC 2023 grant, an assessment of Iowa Law Enforcement and Community Mental Health Models aims to expand and enhance the current studies (process and outcome evaluations) of two initiatives. The two co-responder program models, Alternative Responses for Community Health (ARCH) in Ames, and Marshalltown Police and Community Team (MPACT) in Marshalltown, provide “front-end” mental health diversion strategies in the criminal justice system. This proposal is to expand the process and outcome evaluations to three additional program models in Iowa to provide criminal justice data to law enforcement agencies and communities of multiple approaches to ensure the right service is provided to individuals in crisis situations.