Strategy Areas

PTACC is organized in six strategy areas through which members meet to work collaboratively on resources, tools, and guides that will help to advance pre-arrest deflection and provide guidance to practitioners in the field, researchers, and community members. These strategy areas are:

• Stigma Reduction

  Team that focuses on the big picture -- partnerships, resources, roles, messaging, policy, and strategy.

• Treatment, Housing and Recovery

  Practitioners from treatment, mental health, and social service providers, who develop resources on emerging promising practices regarding working with diverted individuals.

• Public Safety

  Law enforcement and other criminal justice stakeholders who share information, innovations, and lessons learned, and also develop resources for the field.

• Community, Diversity and Equity

  Local community leaders, residents, advocates, family members, and people with lived experience who apply their voices, knowledge, and perspectives to program implementation, with a strong focus on parity across all demographics.

• Research

  Researchers in academia; federal, state, and local government; and the justice community interested in developing standard metrics for researching and evaluating pre-arrest deflection programs.

• Policy and Legislation

  Team that advances this topic in the civic space by helping to track and develop local-, state-, and federal-level legislation and policy on pre-arrest deflection, including planning, implementation, funding, and evaluation. This team translates the efforts of all of the other strategy areas into policy and law.

• Children and Families