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Timely trends, data, ideas, and reports about state and local management.

 

December 10, 2024

  1. A STAFFING DASHBOARD THAT YIELDS NEW INSIGHT

  2. NEW DATA ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERSIGHT

  3. EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC SERVICE

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CHILD CARE: AN INVESTMENT NOT AN EXPENSE

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GOVERNMENTS QUEST TO FIND CPAS

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ARE BEST PRACTICES REALLY THE BEST?

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Our Guest Columnists bring you their news and views. Featuring elected and appointed officials, academics, practitioners, researchers, private-sector observers and more.

 

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SUBVERSION AS A PUBLIC VALUE

By Seth R. Wright and Layana Abu Touq

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QUOTE OF THE DAY.

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT - A SPONSORED SECTION

WOMEN HELPING WOMEN.

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An In-Depth Look at Tulsa’s Remarkable Women in Recovery Program

 

In the Spring of 2023, we watched an unusual graduation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in
which 20 women who had previously faced the potential of long prison terms were
honored for completing a challenging and comprehensive Tulsa, Oklahoma
program called “Women in Recovery” (WIR).


With many years of drug addiction behind them, each of the graduating women
had completed a year to 18 months of difficult but transformative work in an
unusually comprehensive diversion program, which we described in a July 12
2023, Route Fifty column. But that article only contained a fraction of the
information we absorbed, as we heard the women’s stories and talked at length
with the many professionals who make the program work and the George Kaiser
Family Foundation, which provided funding to get Women in Recovery started.
During these conversations, we learned there had been nothing easy about
participating in this program, but lots of evidence that it works well.


As of October 2024, “Women In Recovery” has graduated 669 women. Not
everyone makes it through successfully, but for the 66% that graduate, the
recidivism rate is less than 3%. What’s more, the number of women from Tulsa
County sentenced to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections has declined by
72% from the program’s beginning in 2009.


There are now 148 women in the program, Drug or alcohol-addicted women who
face serious criminal charges are selected with court agreement. Participants
receive over 500 hours of clinical and therapeutic intervention, as well as in-depth
assistance on parenting skills, help with family reunification, education, and
employment training tied to in-demand Oklahoma occupations such as welding,
fiber optics, commercial driving and peer recovery support.


While the program is run out of Family & Children’s Services, a large Tulsa
nonprofit, its success relies on strong collaboration with governmental institutions
including the courts, the criminal justice system in Oklahoma, the city and county of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma. It’s a model that could be replicated in other communities.

 

In this special feature, we have been periodically introducing new Q&As with the women who work in and around "Women in Recovery". This week's new Q&A is with Amanda Gaddy, director of WIR's Parent-Child Reunification Program
At the bottom of Gaddy's Q&A, you can find links to our previously published interviews with Mimi Tarrasch, chief program officer; Tulsa County District Court Judge Michelle Keely, Rachel Delcour, criminal justice director for women justice programs at Family and Children's Services, Lani Burns, Director of Employment and Education for Women in Recovery and Micah Mesker, senior program director, This is the sixth and final interview with the women involved in this remarkable program.

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“FOCUS ON PARENTING”: A Q&A WITH AMANDA GADDY

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Keep Up With Barrett and Greene Inc.’s voluminous output of columns, articles and reports as originally published in a wide range of publications and for a variety of organizations and institutions, the two most recent of which are right here. 

 

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What Has Been Learned About Civilian Oversight Of Law Enforcement

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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

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WHY DO PEOPLE LAUGH WHEN WE TELL THEM WHAT WE DO?

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DOES GETTING TOUGHER ON CRIME MAKE PEOPLE SAFER?

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THE ACADEMIC-GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS GAP

LIGHTS, ACTION, CAMERA! AN ACCUMULATION OF VIDEOS FEATURING B&G AND THEIR COLLEAGUES

SPECIAL VIDEOS.

The Attack on Auditor Independence
01:03:17
Conversation with GFOA’s Chris Morrill
03:28
CAP Awards Ceremony and Hatry Tribute
01:19:35
No Field Will Be The Same
39:57
The Future of State and Local Jobs
42:53
Diversity in the Government Workforce
39:52
Let's Talk Performance: A NCPP Webinar - November 2022 Making Government Work
52:30
Ms. Katherine Barrett and Mr. Richard Greene, Panel 2 - Public Performance Symposium 2022
13:47

A TREASURE OF TROVE OF HELPFUL LINKS AND OTHER RESOURCES TO HELP UNDERSTAND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

RESOURCES.

Among the resources you can find here are: A guide to information about all fifty states budgets and budget practices; A handy reference source for information about all the governors; up-to-date executive orders by state, voices from the GFOA; and more.

 

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