b'The topic for the twenty-second television show produced by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is \\u201cFaith Based Initiatives for Offender Reentry.\\u201d \\xa0The program is a combined effort of Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships of U.S. Department of Justice and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.\\nWe currently average 133,000 page views a month.\\nThe portal site for \\u201cDC Public Safety\\u201d is http://media.csosa.gov.\\nThe transcript for this television program is available at\\xa0http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2012/09/faith-based-programs-for-offender-reentry-dc-public-safety-television-show/\\xa0.\\nCurrent Television Program:\\nThe program discusses the power and effectiveness of faith based efforts in community corrections from a national and local perspective.\\nParticipants-first segment:\\nEugene Schneeberg, Director of the Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships for the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Schneeberg assists the President\\u2019s National Fatherhood & Mentoring initiative, assists in the coordination of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and serves on the Federal Interagency Reentry Council.\\nChristine Keels, Supervisory Program Analyst and CSOSA Faith Based Initiative Team Leader\\nParticipants-second segment:\\n\\xa0James Fulmer, CSOSA Faith Based Mentor\\nArtis Thomas, CSOSA Faith Based Mentee\\nPlease see the website for\\xa0the Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships for the U.S. Department of Justice \\xa0http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/fbnp/index.htm\\xa0. Please see related social media below.\\nSpecial Announcements:\\nA top priority for Attorney General Eric Holder\\u2019s Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs\\u2019\\xa0CrimeSolutions.gov\\xa0website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice.\\nA new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched yesterday by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the \\u201cWhat Works Clearinghouse\\u201d can be seen at\\xa0http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works.\\nThe National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center\\u2019s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see \\u201cFederal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series\\u201d on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council.\\nSeveral requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program\\u2019s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ\\u2019s entire reentry research portfolio visit\\xa0www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm\\xa0.\\nCorrectional Social Media:\\nThe Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project offers a video on research to reduce recidivism as well as brief but powerful overviews of reentry and sentencing research. See\\xa0http://www.pewstates.org/projects/public-safety-performance-project-328068\\xa0.\\nThe U.S. DOJ Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships recently held two successful webinars on Faith and Community Based approaches to Reentry and Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives. Click the links below to watch/listen to these informative webinars.\\n\\nFaith and Community Based Approaches to Responsible Fatherhood and its Impact on Delinquency Prevention, see\\xa0https://bjatraining.org/2012/04/10/faith-and-community-based-approaches-responsible-fatherhood-and-its-impact-delinquency\\nA Look at Faith & Community-Based Approaches to Offender Reentry, see\\xa0https://bjatraining.org/a-look-at-faith-community-based-approaches[...]'