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.
  
  
  
  

• Children and Families

  The Children and Families Strategy Area works to enable effective intervention and support programs for children living with parents, guardians, or household members that have substance use disorders

• 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.

• 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.

• Public Safety

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

• 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.
  
  
  

• 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.