The National PREA Resource Center

Authorized by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) supports PREA implementation efforts nationwide as outlined in the Notice of Final Rule to Prevent, Detect and Respond to Prison Rape. The PRC reflects a unique collaborative partnership among a wide array of national, state, and local stakeholder organizations that represent adult prisons, jails, and lockups; juvenile corrections; community corrections; tribal confinement facilities; and inmate, youth, and victim advocacy groups. The overarching, ongoing responsibility of the PRC is to work with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that the progress made toward the implementation of the PREA standards continues, and that the commitment to the elimination of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement settings increases and becomes institutionalized in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions across the nation. Program funds will be used to deliver strategic support and training to state, local, and tribal corrections and law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and other key stakeholders working to eliminate sexual abuse in confinement, and implement the National PREA Standards. Impact Justice will continue to operate the National PREA Resource Center. They will provide strategic support and comprehensive training and technical assistance to state, local, tribal, and law enforcement agencies in order to assist their efforts to implement the National PREA Standards. The goals of the PREA Resource Center are to expand and enhance current efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to prison rape, create and enhance the PREA audit process, provided training and technical assistance to the field to promote PREA implementation, build comprehensive communication and outreach strategies to support PREA implementation, and support the work DOJ’s PREA Working Group. NCA/NCF

Authorized by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) supports PREA implementation efforts nationwide as outlined in the Notice of Final Rule to Prevent, Detect and Respond to Prison Rape. The PRC reflects a unique collaborative partnership among a wide array of national, state, and local stakeholder organizations that represent adult prisons, jails, and lockups; juvenile corrections; community corrections; tribal confinement facilities; and inmate, youth, and victim advocacy groups. The overarching, ongoing responsibility of the PRC is to work with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that the progress made toward the implementation of the PREA standards continues, and that the commitment to the elimination of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement settings increases and becomes institutionalized in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions across the nation. Program funds will be used to deliver strategic support and training to state, local, and tribal corrections and law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and other key stakeholders working to eliminate sexual abuse in confinement, and implement the National PREA Standards. Impact Justice will operate the National PREA Resource Center. They will provide strategic support and comprehensive training and technical assistance to state, local, tribal, and law enforcement agencies in order to assist their efforts to implement the National PREA Standards. The goals of the PREA Resource Center are to expand and enhance current efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to prison rape, create and enhance the PREA audit process, provided training and technical assistance to the field to promote PREA implementation, build comprehensive communication and outreach strategies to support PREA implementation, and support the work DOJ’s PREA Working Group. CA/NCF

Authorized by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) supports PREA implementation efforts nationwide as outlined in the Notice of Final Rule to Prevent, Detect and Respond to Prison Rape. The PRC reflects a unique collaborative partnership among a wide array of national, state, and local stakeholder organizations that represent adult prisons, jails, and lockups; juvenile corrections; community corrections; tribal confinement facilities; and inmate, youth, and victim advocacy groups. The overarching, ongoing responsibility of the PRC is to work with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that the progress made toward the implementation of the PREA standards continues, and that the commitment to the elimination of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement settings increases and becomes institutionalized in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions across the nation. Program funds will be used to deliver strategic support and training to state, local, and tribal corrections and law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and other key stakeholders working to eliminate sexual abuse in confinement, and implement the National PREA Standards.

Impact Justice will operate the National PREA Resource Center. They will provide strategic support and comprehensive training and technical assistance to state, local, tribal, and law enforcement agencies in order to assist their efforts to implement the National PREA Standards. The goals of the PREA Resource Center are to expand and enhance current efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to prison rape, create and enhance the PREA audit process, provided training and technical assistance to the field to promote PREA implementation, build comprehensive communication and outreach strategies to support PREA implementation, and support the work DOJ’s PREA Working Group.

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The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) created the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) in 2011. Impact Justice (IJ) has been operating the PRC since 2016 with the core team that has operated it since its inception in 2011. IJ has built expertise and streamlined systems that create the capacity for BJA’s PREA Management Office (PMO) as well as the corrections, juvenile detention, and law enforcement fields to do the hard work of meeting the goals of the PREA. IJ proposes to continue this work under the PMO’s direction with focus on supporting  DOJ’s key responsibilities and addressing the most persistent knowledge and resource needs. 
   
Under IJ, the PRC will continue to provide critical PREA implementation support for every adult and juvenile corrections and law enforcement agency in the country. The PRC under IJ will continue to develop and disseminate training curricula and resources for technical assistance accessible to the thousands of agencies responsible for PREA implementation. The PRC will continue to be the front door for every agency seeking to comply with the PREA standards, using its website as the portal to reach its team of unparalleled corrections and law enforcement experts with decades of experience combating sexual abuse in confinement. 

Under current leadership, the PRC has successfully built corrections’ capacity to tackle sexual safety by seeding expertise through the training of more than a thousand corrections administrators, PREA coordinators, and PREA compliance managers at its auditor and implementation trainings. IJ will continue to grow this capacity through both web-based and in person trainings and presentations that include: conference presentations, webinars, PREA implementation training for local juvenile PREA coordinators and compliance managers, and PREA Academy courses that leverage both synchronous and asynchronous modules to teach the standards and implementation, as well as to deliver critical training to investigators.  

The PRC under IJ will also continue to be an indispensable partner in the operation of the PREA audit function, helping the DOJ to train, both in the classroom and in the field, and certify auditors; providing critical support to auditors through continuing education and its audit oversight program; and collecting extensive audit data that allows the DOJ to monitor audit activity and quality. 

IJ has the staff competency, the relationships, and the training, technical assistance, audit support and monitoring systems necessary to provide unparalleled support in the delivery of PREA-related technical assistance and support for a high-quality audit.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) created the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) in 2011. Impact Justice (IJ) has been operating the PRC since 2016. IJ has built expertise and streamlined systems that create the capacity for BJA’s PREA Management Office (PMO) as well as the corrections, juvenile justice, and law enforcement fields to do the hard work of meeting the goals of the PREA. IJ proposes to continue this work under the PMO’s direction with focus on supporting DOJ’s key responsibilities and addressing the most persistent knowledge and resource needs. 

    Under IJ, the PRC will continue to provide critical PREA implementation support for every adult corrections, juvenile justice and law enforcement agency in the country. The PRC under IJ will continue to develop and disseminate training curricula and resources for technical assistance accessible to the thousands of agencies responsible for PREA implementation. The PRC will continue to be the front door for every agency seeking to comply with the PREA standards, using its website as the portal to reach its team of unparalleled corrections, juvenile justice and law enforcement experts with decades of experience combating sexual abuse in confinement. 

    Under current leadership, the PRC has successfully built agencies’ capacity to tackle sexual safety by seeding expertise through the training of more than a thousand corrections and juvenile justice administrators, PREA coordinators, and PREA compliance managers at its auditor and implementation trainings. IJ will continue to grow this capacity through both web-based and in person trainings and presentations that include: conference presentations, webinars, and PREA Academy courses that leverage both synchronous and asynchronous modules to teach the standards and implementation, as well as to deliver critical training to investigators.  

    The PRC under IJ will also continue to be an indispensable partner in the operation of the PREA audit function, helping the DOJ to train, both in the classroom and in the field, and certify auditors; providing critical support to auditors through continuing education and its audit oversight program; and collecting extensive audit data that allows the DOJ to monitor audit activity and quality. 

    IJ has the staff competency, the relationships, and the training, technical assistance, audit support and monitoring systems necessary to provide unparalleled support in the delivery of PREA-related technical assistance and support for high-quality audits.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) created the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) in 2011. Impact Justice (IJ) has been operating the PRC since 2016. IJ now maintains the expertise and essential systems that support BJA’s PREA Management Office (PMO), as well as the corrections, juvenile justice, and law enforcement fields, in the daily work needed to meet their responsibilities under PREA. IJ proposes to continue this work under the PMO’s direction, in particular ensuring that key audit systems and training of auditors continue uninterrupted. Under IJ, the PRC will continue to support critical PREA functions related to auditors, including helping DOJ train new auditors through remote learning and experiential field-based practice. In addition, IJ will continue to maintain essential systems related to the initiation of audits, storage of audit documentation, and maintenance of audit tools. The Justice Department has established an Audit Assignment System that requires review of contracts and other plans for audits. Once initiated, auditing documentation and tools are stored in the secure Online Audit System. IJ proposes continuing to operate both key systems on behalf of the DOJ. As necessary and supported by funding resources, IJ will continue other aspects of its existing grant, under which the PRC provide clearinghouse, training, and other support for the field. We will conduct tasks as needed to successfully transition these responsibilities to the recipient of a new grant for the operation of the PRC currently under competition. Similarly, IJ proposes to continue, as necessary, other critical ongoing activities, such as supporting DOJ in its auditor oversight role, conducting auditor remediation and peer review programs, assisting with auditor certification and recertification, and providing advanced learning opportunities for existing auditors. These activities would continue, as funding permits, until a new contract for those services is in place. IJ has the staff competency, the relationships, and the training, technical assistance, audit support, and monitoring systems necessary to provide unparalleled support in the delivery of PREA-related information and support for high-quality audits.support in the delivery of PREA-related information and support for high-quality audits.

Impact Justice proposes to continue operating key functions of the PREA Resource Center under this response to BJA’s invitation for supplemental funding. BJA created the National PREA Resource Center (PRC) in 2011. Impact Justice (IJ) has been operating the PRC since 2016. IJ now maintains the expertise and essential systems that support the PREA Management Office (PMO), as well as the corrections, juvenile justice, and law enforcement fields, in the daily work needed to meet their responsibilities under PREA.

Under IJ, the PRC will continue to support critical PREA functions related to auditors, including helping DOJ train new auditors through field-based practice, see the current group of auditor trainees through to certification, and plan for the next cohort of learners. IJ also proposes to continue supporting DOJ in its auditor oversight role, conducting auditor remediation and peer review programs, assisting with auditor certification and recertification, and providing advanced learning opportunities for existing auditors. IJ will also administer probation, certification, and recertification activities for auditors.

In addition, IJ proposes continuing to maintain essential systems related to the initiation of audits, storage of audit documentation, and maintenance of audit tools. The Justice
Department has established an Audit Assignment System that requires review of contracts and other plans for audits. Once initiated, auditing documentation and tools are stored in the secure Online Audit System. IJ proposes continuing to operate both of these key systems on behalf of the DOJ. As part of its role in maintaining audit tools, IJ will complete a refresh of auditors’ interview guides.

As necessary and supported by funding resources, IJ will continue other aspects of this cooperative agreement, under which the PRC provides clearinghouse, training, and other support
for the field, as it continues transitioning funding of these responsibilities to a newer cooperative agreement. Anticipated subrecipients for this award include Abt Associates for OAS operations, The Moss Group, and the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico for individual sessions of auditor continuing education, and a number of individuals who provide peer review and peer mentoring.