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FATHERS & FAMILIES COALITION OF AMERICA TO HOST SEEKING SAFETY TRAINING AT NO ADDITIONAL COST!

LIMITED TO THE FIRST FIFTY (50) PAID REGISTRANTS THAT RESERVE A SEAT... DO NOT MISS OUT!

Fathers & Families Coalition of America will host Treatment Innovations the developer of Seeking Safety by Dr. Lisa Najavits on Thursday, February 22, 2018 as part of our six Talk Presentation series at our 19th Annual Families and Fathers National Conference, in Los Angeles, California. Moreover, Treatment Innovations will provide a customized skill-based 3.5 hour afternoon institute training on Seeking Safety, Thursday, February 22nd for those who want to use this internationally acclaimed curriculum. The Seeking Safety Model is one of many outstanding programs that has a proven track record with women, children and men who overcome trauma. Seeking Safety is an evidence-based, present-focused counseling model to help people attain safety from trauma and/or substance abuse and is transferable to all professionals working with children, parents, individuals and in 2018, Treatment Innovations will train for the first fifty (50) paid full-conference registrants on this model at no additional fee! 

REGISTER TODAY @under $220.00, request a reserved attendance seating and not only get to attend the 19th Annual Families and Fathers National Conference but training on this special institute hosted by Fathers & Families Coalition of America. Remember only the first fifty (50) paid using our online system will be allowed entrance into this training! Do not miss out on this in-kind value savings of voer $1500.00. Registration point of contact is Mrs. Alfie Tarazon (here) 

Executive Summary: Calls for criminal justice reform have been mounting in recent years, in large part due to the extraordinarily high levels of incarceration in the United States. Today, the incarcerated population is 4.5 times larger than in 1980, with approximately 2.2 million people in the United States behind bars, including individuals in Federal and State prisons as well as local jails. The push for reform comes from many angles, from the high financial cost of maintaining current levels of incarceration to the humanitarian consequences of detaining more individuals than any other country.

Report Highlights

1. In recent decades, the U.S. incarcerated population has grown dramatically, despite falling crime rates.
2. Growth in U.S. incarceration has been fueled by criminal justice policies.
3. Interactions with the criminal justice system are disproportionately concentrated among Blacks and Hispanics, poor individuals, and individuals with high rates of mental illness and substance abuse.
4. Economics can provide a useful lens for thinking about the costs and benefits of criminal justice reform.
5. Improving safety and reducing crime are central goals of the criminal justice system.
6. Criminal justice policies have the capacity to reduce crime, but the aggregate crime-reducing benefits of incarceration are small and decline as the incarcerated population grows.
7. Investments in police and policies that improve labor market opportunity and educational attainment are likely to have greater crime-reducing benefits than additional incarceration.
8. The direct government costs of the criminal justice system are significant.
9. Criminal justice policies also generate a number of indirect costs, or collateral consequences, for individuals with criminal records, their families, and their communities.
10. Given the total costs, some criminal justice policies, including increased incarceration, fail a cost-benefit test.

 $ $10 billion dollar increase in incarceration spending would reduce crime by 1 to 4 percent (or 55,000 to 340,000 crimes) and have a net societal benefit of -$8 billion to $1 billion dollars.

o   At the same time, a $10 billion dollar investment in police hiring would decrease crime by 5 to 16 percent (440,000 to 1.5 million crimes) have a net societal benefit of $4 to $38 billion dollars.