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After pandemic-era crime upticks, lawmakers are wavering on their commitment to evidence-based community safety policies. Instead, they are reverting to the failed playbook of the 1990s which dramatically increased incarceration with limited benefits to community safety. The Sentencing Project‘s recent report, “Incarceration & Crime: A Weak Relationship,” illustrates that less imprisonment often happens alongside improvements to community safety. Please join the Sentencing Project for a webinar exploring the weak relationship between incarceration and crime, non-prison alternatives to enhance community safety, and media coverage‘s relationship to public concern about crime. Panelists: Anna Flagg - Senior Data Reporter at The Marshall Project Andrew Muhammad - Executive Director and Life Coach at We, Our, Us Men’s Movement Dr. Alex Piquero - Sociology & Criminology Professor and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami; Prior Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bryan Widenhouse - Senior Policy Associate at FAMM Moderator: Kristen M. Budd, Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project

The Gault Center and the Southwest Region invite you to this webinar on understanding youth with problematic sexual behavior and evaluating sex-specific risk assessments. Michelle Gourley, JD, LCSW, will discuss a sex-specific framework for youth and determine if a sex-specific assessment meets the standard of care and therefore provides appropriate dispositional treatment and placement recommendations for the youth we represent. Speaker bio: M. Michelle Gourley, MFT, LCSW, JD As a licensed clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, and family and juvenile law attorney, Michelle has spent her entire career working to enhance the healing and wellbeing of juveniles, young adults, and their families. Her experience includes working as a therapist in a full continuum of mental health services beginning in Child Protective Services in California, psychiatric social work at the Utah State Hospital, treatment of substance abuse and trauma in a day treatment program, and specialized assessment and treatment for adolescents in residential, correctional, and out-patient settings. In 1982, Michelle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in the pre-professional option of Family Sciences with a Minor in Psychology and Sociology. In 1984, she graduated with two Master’s degrees, one in Social Work and a second in Marriage and Family Therapy. In 1998, Michelle earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Utah Law School specializing in family and juvenile law. She is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed member of the Utah State Bar Association. Michelle is one of the co-founders of NOJOS which included development and numerous revisions of the NOJOS Protocols and Standards. Currently, through her private practice, she continues to provide specialized assessment for juveniles and young adults throughout the United States in both State and Federal jurisdictions.