Want to increase your organization's impact?

We can help!

Check out some of the services we offer below.

data driven decision making,

made less painful

Criminal Justice Consulting

We help courts, treatment facilities, and related stakeholder organizations increase their impact.

Criminogenic Risk Assessment

Treatment Program Design & Evaluation

Trauma Responsivity

Equity & Disproportionality Analysis

Data & Systems Alignment

We believe that when given the right resources and support, people will thrive.

We see the role of the criminal justice system as assisting with those resources and supports when individuals are struggling, providing the services and accountability to guide them toward a thriving and prosocial lifestyle.

We help criminal justice organizations do this better by being trauma responsive, data driven, and with a close eye on equitable outcomes.

Over 99% of all people who have contact with the criminal justice system will be back in the community eventually.

If their court contact made their situation worse rather than better,

who are we really helping?

And how much are we really helping?

By understanding trauma, criminogenic risk, and evidence based programming, courts can greatly increase their impact.

Trauma Responsivity
Individual and systemic trauma can result in the brain's emergency response system getting "stuck" in high alert. Until a feeling of safety can be established, it's difficult to address criminogenic risk.

Data Driven Decision Making

Understanding clients' responsivity factors, criminogenic risks and needs, and protective factors allows for treatment planning to be most effective and best matched to each individual client.

Resource Allocation
Understanding the risks and needs of clients allows organizations to better plan for staffing and program resources. Aggregate understanding of risks and needs can also allow for proactive community conversations about mitigating risk.

No judgement.

we'll meet you where you are.

Nonprofit doesn't Mean Non-Impact.

Data is a powerful tool to help nonprofits deliver services at their highest potential. We believe that having the data nonprofits need to thrive shouldn't be so burdensome that it takes away from doing the actual work.

Nonprofit Impact Academy

Community Needs Assessment

program Evaluation

Data Dashboard Development

Data & Systems Alignment

We help nonprofit organizations will all aspects of strategic alignment, program evaluation, and data driven decision making. For new organizations, that may happen through our trainings or free resources. Or we can help facilitate an organizational theory of change, program logic models, evaluation plans, data collection and management tools, and outcome tracking dashboards.

Wherever you're at in your organization's growth, we're here to help!

CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR PREVIOUS PROJECTS

greater impact is possible.

Speaking & Training

We help courts, treatment facilities, and related stakeholder organizations increase their impact.

Key Note & Conference Presentations

Staff Training

Nonprofit Board Development

Community Stakeholder Learning Sharing

Upcoming trainings

Trauma or Bad Behavior?

Understanding The Interplay Between Trauma And Criminogenic Risk

Join us for this live virtual training on understanding how trauma and criminogenic risk overlap and interplay to result in behavior. We will cover what criminogenic risk is, what trauma is, how both manifest in behavior, and how staff can better understand and work with youth.

Cost: $27

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

1-3pm EST

Trauma Responsivity 101:

What is Trauma and Why Does it impact our work?

This live virtual training will provide a base understanding of what trauma is, how it impacts individuals and groups, behavioral manifestations of trauma, and ways to reduce the negative impacts of trauma. Human services staff and management are the intended audience for this training. This is part of our ongoing training series on trauma responsivity. The training will be recorded and provided to registered participants.

Cost: $19

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10am -12pm EST

Tableau Data Visualization for Nonprofits

Has your organization drooled over the beautiful data dashboards you've seen from other nonprofits, but they've felt out of reach? In this recorded masterclass we will walk through what Tableau and how to utilize it for a basic data dashboard. We will discuss best practices in data visualization for the most common types of data indicators and provide an introduction to geographic mapping in Tableau. You'll benefit most from this training if your organization has clearly defined and measured data, ready to be coded into a dashboard. This training be done in Tableau Public and does not require a Tableau Desktop or other software license. This training is not the best fit if your organization would like to use a different data visualization software.

Introductory Cost: $97

Masterclass Available on Demand

Beginning Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Risk Assessment Implementation

Petersen Research Consultants is able to provide trainings on understanding criminogenic risk and utilizing the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory 2.0 (YLS, a proprietary tool available through MHS). Risk assessment implementation trainings may be jurisdiction-specific or may be more generalized for staff from across jurisdictions. Training topics include: what criminogenic risks and needs, responsivity, and protective factors are, how decisions have historically been made in the justice system compared to what evidence-based practice tells us, and how to use risk assessment to improve decision making and treatment. Participants will gain an understanding of what the YLS is, how to conduct an assessment, and how to utilize the instrument for case planning. This training is most appropriate for probation officers and other juvenile court staff.

Please contact us if you'd like to discuss risk assessment training more!

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