The NCJA Board of Directors Equity in Public Safety Funding and Budgeting Committee five-chapter report leverages input from community and system partners to provide comprehensive guidance on how to be more equitable and community-focused when making funding decisions on public safety initiatives.

Learn how these core services intersect with the criminal justice system and the vital role SAAs can play in supporting the development and expansion of best practice crisis services.

This document familiarizes SAAs and criminal justice planners with the facts of mental illness and their relation to popular myths.

This behavioral health brief discusses key pathways for finding strong behavioral health partners and for learning how to build a foundation for successful and collaborative partnerships.

This report from NCJA's Center for Justice Planning covers promising and emerging practices for ensuring equity in grants administration and strategic planning.

This foundational brief establishes key principles, definitions and more, that guide NCJA’s new Equity in Grants Administration and Strategic Planning Program.

In Grantmaking: A Statewide Strategy to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Legal System, NCJA and NACo reflect on how states and counties can reflect on the grantmaking processes to administer funds more equitably and for greater impact.

This document provides an overview of the Sequential Intercept Model as a planning tool to create outcome-informed action and focus on the thoughtful use of resources. 

This fact sheet provides a concise overview of the new three-digit dialing code (988) for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline—its history, benefits and opportunities for State Administering Agencies (SAAs) to maximize its benefit.

This policy brief highlights lessons learned from a meeting of senior officials from state administering agencies (SAAs ) and single state agencies (SSAs) in three states to share lessons learned in collaborating to address substance use disorders (SUD) within justice-involved populations. It is a joint publication by NCJA, the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD.)

This document provides an explanation of braided funding. The guide outlines important factors to consider when contemplating braided funding, provides steps for developing the model and highlights two states that currently utilize braided funding.

This brief provides an overview of the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA), its reporting requirements, and how they align with other federal programs that collect data on criminal justice related deaths.

The guidebook presents an in-depth look at how to effectively plan for and work through crisis events, including crisis leadership, continuity planning, grants management, collaboration and communication.