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2021
This article co-authored byTASC Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) Executive DirectorJac CharlierandJessica Reichert, manager for the Center for Justice Research and Evaluation at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), introduced the deflection...
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Factsheet / Handout |
2020
This document, produced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, highlights collaborative pre-arrest diversion strategies and the work of PTACC and...
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Factsheet / Handout |
2020
10 Steps Deflection and Pre-Arrest Diversion Sites Can Take During and After the PandemicAs part of an ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative (PTACC) has created its 10 Steps document.This paper outlines steps deflection and pre-arrest...
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Factsheet / Handout |
2020
TASC's Center for Health and Justice offers naloxone training and deflection co-responder technical assistance to help prevent overdose deaths. Learn more about our work inpre-arrest diversion and deflection, and ourTASC deflection trainings in suburban Cook County. Contact the CHJ...
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Program / Media Feature |
2020
This articleis a colloborative effort by CHJ andKaren MalineatInternational Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP),who wrote the content and led the relatedwebinar. [Those without Adobe Connect, canview the presentation PDF.]
The article appeared in the...
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Program / Media Feature |
2020
Jac Charlier, executive director of TASC's Center for Health and Justice, recently co-authored this April 28, 2020, op-ed for The Crime Report. It discusses the importance ofrapidly adapting andapplying thelessons...
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Program / Media Feature |
2020
Deflection Featured in Sun-Times Editorial
Deflection andJac Charlier, executive director of PTACC and TASC's Center for Health and Justice, were featured in a June 9, 2020, commentary by the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board.
Excerpts are included, below:
Sun-Times Editorial:...
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Program / Media Feature |
2020
This articlewritten by TASC’s Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) appeared in theJune 2020 edition of "Catching Up With COSSAP," an online newsletter distributed by the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP).
CHJis...
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Program / Media Feature |
2020
This article appeared in the April 2020 edition of "Catching Up With COSSAP," an online newsletter distributed by the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP).
TASC's Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) is aCOSSAP training and technical...
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Report / Issue Brief |
2020
CHJ authored this Pathways to Diversion Case Studies Series focusing on officer intervention.
CHJis aCOSSAP training and technical assistance partnerand helps grantees implement evidence-based, systemic solutions at the front end of the justice system to respond to the...
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Report / Issue Brief |
2020
CHJ authored this Pathways to Diversion Case Studies Series focusing on officer intervention.CHJis aCOSSAP training and technical assistance partnerand helps grantees implement evidence-based, systemic solutions at the front end of the justice system to respond to the...
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Report / Issue Brief |
2020
TASC-CHJ
As communities across the country face crises of drug addiction and overdose, the need for timely access to quality, evidence-based treatment for people with substance use disorders is clear and pressing. This series of briefs is offered to help...
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Slide Deck |
2020
Considering Children and Families
A Presentation from the COAP National Forum
During the 2020 COSSAP (Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program, formerly known as COAP) National Forum CHJ's Jac Charlier presented on the importance of considering the needs of children...
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Report / Issue Brief |
2019
Jac Charlier, executive director of TASC’s Center for Health and Justice (CHJ), and Ben Ekelund, director of CHJ, have co-authored an issue brief for the National Drug Court Resource Center to support law enforcement officers in...
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Slide Deck |
2019
FrameworkLaw enforcement personnel in the community are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. They save lives by carrying naloxone and reviving people who have overdosed, and they save lives again by connecting people to treatment.The model is a pre-arrest diversio...
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Video / Podcast |
2019
CHJ facilitated this July 2019 episode of the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (or COAP) podcast series, in which Daniel Meloy introduces the Quick Response Team model for overdose response and...
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Factsheet / Handout |
2018
SB 3023: The Community-Law Enforcement Partnership for Deflection and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Act
Mundelein Police Chief Eric Guenther (right) and Dixon City Manager (former Police Chief) Danny Langloss (left) - photo by D. Ormsby
Illinois Senate Bill 3023, signed...
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Report / Issue Brief |
2018
in Jail Settings
Preventing Deaths, Reducing Risk to Counties and States
As the opioid crisis continues, jails across the country are encountering people with opioid use disorders who are actively using heroin, fentanyl, illicit prescription medications, and other opioids....
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Factsheet / Handout |
2017
PTACC Informational Factsheets & Slides
The purpose of PTACC is to provide national vision, leadership, voice, and action to reframe the relationship between law enforcement, treatment, and community. Learn more about this national movement and how you and your community can...
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Program / Media Feature |
2017
In this March 2017 online article for The Police Chief Magazine, Jac Charlier described the concept of deflection as a model to connect people to substance use and mental health treatment in the community.
This is a follow-up to the September 2015 piece,“Want to Reduce Drug Use in...
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