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Vision: Recognizing the evolving demographical changes of our communities, the vision of the Criminal Justice Center for Innovation (CJCI) is to create a community justice cultural awareness concept where community health and safety needs are proactively met through collaboration with criminal justice service providers, community leadership, and community residents.

Mission: The Criminal Justice Center for Innovation (CJCI) at Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC), a component of the Criminal Justice Division, sets as its mission to address the diverse and evolving needs of criminal justice and community service professionals by developing and providing specialized resources, innovative training and onsite technical assistance.

Tribal Initiatives

FVTC has a long history of working with Wisconsin tribal communities and more than a decade of expertise in providing training and technical assistance nationally to tribal communities. Since 1976, the Criminal Justice Department has been a significant provider of training services for the Ho-Chunk, Mohican, Potawatomi, Menominee, and Oneida Tribes.

• In 1994, FVTC and College of Menominee Nation (CMN) developed a transfer of credit agreement that enhances tribal students’ ability to transfer to FVTC’s criminal justice degree programs. Training included juvenile justice issues such as the Indian Child Welfare Act, responding to child abuse and gang issues (reservations), as well as alcohol and drug use/abuse concerns. Other past training topics include Public Law 280, cross deputization, crime prevention, and recruit officer training.

• Since 1989, the Criminal Justice Department has coordinated the Multi-Jurisdictional Law Enforcement Conference, which was initially conceptualized by the law enforcement leaders of the Menominee Indian Nation (Keshena, WI) and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin(Oneida, WI). The annual conference theme promotes the development of stronger relationships among tribal and non-tribal law enforcement and community-service agencies.
  

• In 1998, FVTC developed the Community Analysis Process for Planning Strategies (CAPPS) training program to work with teams of executive level tribal leaders representing government, planning, police, social services, housing, tribal council, courts, education, probation and parole.
  

• From 1999 to the present, FVTC serves as part of the core team of training and technical assistance providers for the tribal justice grant programs administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, which includes the Tribal Courts Assistance Program and the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program.
  

• The National Indian Youth Police Academy, sponsored in part by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office, is coordinated by FVTC.
  

• The Center for Innovation assists the Office of Justice Programs in the development of specialized events, including the Alaska and National Listening Conferences; Tribal-State-Federal Court Relations Gathering: Walking on Common Ground; the National Peacemaking Conference; provider group resource materials, conference call coordination, staff diversity training, and report writing/editing.

• Tribal Youth FocusGroup Report Will Guide OJJDP Efforts
  The report captures the meeting of the 2007 Tribal Youth Focus Group, which was comprised of boys and girls, ages 10 to 17, from 20 tribes across the United States and their chaperones. The meeting was subsequently described by former OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores as "an important event that will shape the relationship between our Office and your communities for many years to come," and the report will guide OJJDP as it continues to develop programs to help tribal communities address the challenges they face in strengthening families and assisting at-risk youth.
  

Diverse Programming

• FVTC’s Criminal Justice Division also offers an associate degree program and is a regional state police training center.

• The division is the principal provider of training and technical assistance for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) child protection programs, for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the National Center for Missing Adults.
  

• FVTC has several strong partnerships for crime prevention, security, and executive protection. Partnership initiatives include work with the National Crime Prevention Council, the University of North Dakota Indian Law Center, the National American Indian Court Judges Association, the Wisconsin Tribal Judges Association, and many other nationally recognized organizations and agencies.
  

• Other specialized assistance is available based on community needs.
  

• FVTC staff and consultants include managers and instructors with experience working in law enforcement, treatment, the court system, government, and communities at the tribal, local, county, state, and federal levels. They recognize the diverse and changing needs of communities and are committed to listening first, and then providing community-based assistance.

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Questions? Call us at 888-370-1752, email cjgrants@fvtc.edu, or visit the Contact Us page for a directory.

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