Jac A. Charlier’s Post

The natural and next evolution of our field and movement deflection is with/for/by our youth. Join us as we launch Youth Deflection at Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative (PTACC) Summit 2024 in Seattle! This will be good, very good!

One of my super favorite pics during #NationalDeflectionWeek2024 from the Land of Lincoln. Illinois is well on its way to being the first state in our wonderful Union to implement deflection AND a statewide deflection workforce. Simply HUGE! Here, the scope of the operation being undertaken as briefed by Illinois State Police Lt. Brandon G.. And, big shout out to Illinois Department of Human Services #SUPR and Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority TASC, Inc. (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) Carey Deacon Koren V. Matt Doss Stephanie Frank Jessica Reichert Guy Schingoethe Malik Nevels Stephanie Nevilles Hope Fiori Guy Farina Mica L. Williams, JD Catherine Weerts Kelly Cleveland @Matthew Grey Alex Menninger Nancy Sullivan

#NationalDeflectionWeek2024 is well underway. Join us...Like, Repost, and share by all means available!

Let's start of July with this pic that I really dig of our TASC, Inc. (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) Executive Team and some of our TASC Board members. From a whole bunch of backgrounds and experiences, we come together to do the co-work of creating healthier, safer, and more just communities. No commercial here folks, really appreciate who this group is and what we do! #TASCstrong

You know you've made it in your career when you can wear a baseball cap, shades, and polo to a global drugs conference in the searing heat of Thessaloniki, Greece while those all around you still have to stay dressed up. #Δενείναιδίκαιο #OneOfTheseDays #NotThereJustYet International Consortium for Alternatives to Incarceration (ICATI) The Colombo Plan ISSUP - International Society of Substance Use Professionals Dr. Roger Peters Michele Selig Worobiec Thom Browne

People ask me "What do you do?" I say, crime reduction. Then they ask, "What's that?" I say, I make your neighborhood safer. They say, "Cool! You mean like NCIS or SWAT, or maybe more like The Wire?" I say, not exactly. In the vein of a picture is worth 1,000 words, this is what crime reduction looks like behind the scenes (in this case, Lima, Peru). And no, I have no agent :)