The Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1981, with offices in Hatboro, Pennsylvania and Silver Spring, Maryland. The Center's staff members have diverse qualifications and backgrounds in corrections, organizational development, nonprofit management, training, criminal justice and human services research, administration, and policy development. The Center has provided specific assistance to courts, state and local governments, corrections agencies, non-profit organizations, and private philanthropic foundations. The Center has provided that assistance in three main areas:

1. PROGRAM DESIGN, TRAINING, AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
• designing and conducting conferences and meetings involving state and local policymakers from the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government;

• designing and conducting specialized training workshops for policymakers, including judges, sentencing commission members, legislators, and paroling authorities, and for the staff of these and other organizations;

• facilitating key meetings of state and county policy teams, task forces, and parole boards; and

• providing facilitation, communication skills, and management training to key staff in courts, state and local corrections agencies, and in private and public agencies.
2. RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE:
• assisting both agencies and systems to explicate and describe current practice; to identify and analyze problems; to conduct organizational needs assessments; and to implement recommended changes;

• conducting research, including research design, literature reviews, instrument design, data collection, data analysis, and the synthesis necessary to support policy development;

• preparing papers, surveys, directories, and documentation of learnings related to the Center's efforts;

• making presentations at national professional meetings and conferences, and testifying before committees of the legislature in numerous states and the Congress; and

• serving as a clearinghouse of current developments and emerging innovations in intermediate sanctions, violation/revocation decisionmaking, parole decisionmaking, and corrections population management for jurisdictions and for other national projects and organizations.
3. SUPPORT TO POLICY CHANGE ACTIVITIES:
• providing assessments of the public policy environment within jurisdictions that favor or impede policy change;

• substantive assistance to policymakers in correctional and public policy analysis and policy development; and

• national assessment of current practices and policies and the articulation of future trends and innovations in numerous national projects.

The Center for Effective Public Policy has provided these services through its administration and operation of a number of major national projects, numerous technical assistance contracts with individual jurisdictions, and many training and research projects.

For more information please contact:

Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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