Inside this issue:

Hampshire House Tackles Digital Divide

2

Franklin Program Success

2

CJI at CRJ Supports CA Probation Realignment

3

SJS Staff on the College Circuit

3

Enterprise Benefits 4

Shout Outs 4

HR Highlights 5

CRJ Employee Newsletter

DECEMBER 2011 2011 CRJ Holiday Party

As people rounded the final turn to Gillette Stadium on Friday De-cember 9th, they were greeted by a huge, lighted sign saying “CRJ Holiday

Party”. It clearly was a sign that it was go-ing to be a special night. Nearly 200 CRJ staff and friends gathered to enjoy good conversation, excellent food, and to honor some of the outstanding staff members who were presented with our annual awards. CEO John Larivee selected two special peo-ple, Tom O’Connell from our Facilities De-partment and Meghan Guevara from the Crime and Justice Institute for his annual CEO Award. Tom was cited for his excel-lent work in dealing with two major storms in the past year that disrupted operations at many CS locations. The superb work that Meghan has done in CJI’s system re-form efforts has attracted significant new consulting opportunities. Departmental Star awards this year went to Robin Thompson, Clinician for CS, Godwin Adansi, Assistant Program Man-ager in the Northboro Residence, Larissa Young, Program Manager at the Wendell Residence, Kellyanne Lynch, Program Man-ager at the Franklin Residence, Eugenia Anderson, Administrative Assistant at Brooke House, Ernie Goodno, Program Di-

rector at Hampshire House, Alicia Opidee, Assistant Director at Sargent House, Jim Greene of the Facilities Department, and Gabriella Priest, Research Assistant for CJI. In addition, Star Awards were presented to Medina Shanks, Accounts Payable Man-ager in the Fiscal Department by the SJS Department for her excellent support of the programs and to Mike Kane, Senior Associate for CJI by CFO Rick McCrossan and the Technological Services Depart-ment for his superior work as part of the Technology Advisory Committee. COO Bill Coughlin presented the Volunteer of the Year Award to Harvard University’s Phillips Brooks House who have placed volunteer tutors at the Somerville Transi-tion Shelter, Sargent and McGrath Houses under the coordination and training of Marcy Rosenthal, Program Director of Wat-son Academy. As Ernie Goodno was receiv-ing his award a TV in back of him was showing Patriots owner Bob Kraft giving the two thumbs up sign. All these award winners deserve the same. After the awards were presented, the

dancing began on the dance floor over-

looking the field, lit up by two end zone

scoreboards wishing CRJ Happy Holidays.

Special thanks go out to Rebecca Cabaniss

(Party Hostess Extraordinaire), Eula Kozma

(Advancement), Laura Anderson

(Advancement), Janaya Pierre-Mike

(Coolidge House), Kris Kelly (CS) and Ellen

Taylor (HR) for all their efforts in organiz-

ing this a wonderful event!

End Zone Scoreboard

By: Bill Coughlin, Chief Operating Officer

Contributors:

Bill Coughlin Elizabeth Curtin Gabriella Priest Kellyanne Lynch Laura Anderson Matt LeFrancois Meghan Guevara Rebecca Cabaniss

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The Digital Divide and the Career Coach-ing programs are back at Hampshire House! For the second consecutive year student interns from St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH have been working at the Hampshire House on a weekly basis to help our residents develop basic com-puter and internet job searching skills. Utilizing the Hampshire House’s brand new computer lab, the interns have been able to work one on one with residents and have logged 30 hours of service since the middle of October. The Digital Divide is a program that teaches basic computer skills to include office pro-grams, “key word searches” on the inter-net and efficient use of e-mail. The Ca-reer Coaching classes teach job searching

techniques and resume writing ,and iden-tify career paths best suited to the resi-dents’ skills and qualifications. All Hamp-shire House residents are encouraged to participate in these programs as they enhance the opportunities for unem-ployed residents and build upon the skills of already employed residents. After the first year these programs were run at the Hampshire House, program staff con-ducted surveys of the residents and in-terns who had participated. By all ac-counts both our residents and the in-terns benefited greatly from these pro-grams. We will continue to asses and de-velop these programs moving forward as we are dedicated to bringing the most efficient services to our residents.

The Franklin men have had much to cele-brate in November.

On Tuesday, November 15th, three men started part time jobs as parcel assistants for Fed Ex Smart Post in Northborough. The men’s jobs include lifting, sorting, scanning, and loading packages. Their induction into the Fed Ex family is a trial by fire as the company prepares for the busy holiday season. The men have adapted quickly to this fast paced envi-ronment and look forward to more chal-lenges and a heavier work load going into December.

The Franklin program has also celebrated two graduations. Monday, November 7th, marked the completion of a six week course for one man. Brockton Commu-nity Schools hosts the Enrichment and Recreation Program for Adults with Spe-

cial Needs. This individual chose to take part in their money management classes. Two days later, another individual gradu-ated from the Self Advocacy Leadership Series. This nine week course took place at Lesley College and was hosted by the Massachusetts Developmental Disabili-ties Council. The series is for people with developmental disabilities who are inter-ested in learning the fundamentals of leadership.

“The Digital Divide is a program that teaches basic com-puter skills … and ef-ficient use of e-mail.”

By: Matt LeFrancois, Assistant Director, Hampshire House

Hampshire House Tackles the Digital Divide

By: Kellyanne Lynch, Program Manager, Franklin Residence

Franklin Program Success

Departmental Star Award Winners

Alicia Opidee Ernie Goodno

Eugenia Anderson Gabriella Priest Godwin Adansi

Jim Greene Larissa Young

Kellyanne Lynch Medina Shanks

Mike Kane Robin Thompson

CEO Award Winners Meghan Guevara

Tom O’Connell

Kellyanne Lynch receives Gold Star Award at CRJ Holiday Party

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CJI hosted an extremely successful event on October 12th and 13th in Sacramento as part of a National Institute of Correc-tions and Public Welfare Foundation contract. Collaborating for Change: A Statewide Probation Work Session was a two-day event focused on practical strategies to support probation as it implements significant legislative changes. There were three plenary sessions as well as 12 breakout sessions focused on the content tracks of organizational develop-ment, EBP, collaboration, and quality assurance, and the presenters were primarily practitioners sharing their successes and lessons learned. The event was attended by approximately 200 probation executives and staff from 49 counties. Highlights included a lunch address from Governor Jerry Brown, and wonderful discussions about how to make systemic change work on the ground. The most popular component of the event were the flash drives containing the conference handouts and refer-ence materials (a green initiative!). CJI received a great deal of positive feedback, including from several Chiefs. A letter sent to project staff stated “On be-half of the Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC), we would like to thank you for your hard work in making the CA Statewide Probation Work Session a great success. With realignment being implemented at the beginning of October, it was a perfect opportunity for probation to learn more about how to apply SB 678 in this new criminal justice reform in order to assist in the reduction of recidivism while saving the State money during these hard economic times. Once again, thank you for all of your efforts. We look forward to continue working with you to help make our communities a safer place”. Thank you to project staff Zach Dal Pra, Kristy Danford, Meghan Guevara, Kristen Nielsen, and Gabriella Priest for the months of preparation they put into the event, and their flexibility and attention to detail that kept everything running smoothly. They worked as a seamless team! If you are interested in any of the work session materials, please visit the web page: http://cjinstitute.org/projects/caprobation/worksession. If you have any questions please contact any of the project staff listed above.

CJI at CRJ Supports California Probation Realignment By: Meghan Guevara, Managing Associate and Gabriella Priest, Research Assistant

Several SJS staff have been asked recently to speak with college groups about the work of CRJ, the programs of SJS, and the overall philosophy of our efforts. These events give us an opportunity to educate college-age students about the mission of CRJ, and to hopefully inspire some to consider working in the fields which we represent. The use of interns and college students as staff in our various programs has always been a mainstay of SJS and other Departments, and can add a youthful and new perspective to our efforts. Recent SJS presentations have included:

* Deputy Director Tito Rodriguez spoke to a criminal justice class at North Shore Community College in Beverly,

MA. * In October, Deputy Director Dick Guy, and Horizon House Case Manager Michael McGoewn-Walker served on

a Panel to discuss the Issues and Obstacles to Reentry held at the Sage College of Albany (NY) campus. Mi-chael is a graduate of The Sage Colleges. The audience for this panel was primarily graduate students in the Forensic Mental Health classes.

* In February, Horizon House Director Dan Robertello will be speaking to a criminal justice class at SUNY Al-bany. Dan is an alumni of SUNY Albany.

SJS Staff on the College Circuit By: Elizabeth Curtin, Director, Social Justice Services Department

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To Penny White, Program Manager at the Brookfield Residence, who was named Staff Member of the Quarter at Community Strategies and Chris Desrosiers, Resident Counselor at the Windsor Residence, who re-ceived DSP of the Quarter in Octo-ber. To the Staff members of Horizon House and the West Boylston Resi-dence for hosting excellent commu-nity open houses at their facilities. Both were very well attended by neighbors. To the Women of the Brookfield Residence for their amazing weight loss program that helped the five women lose more than 400 pounds so far this year!

To Kristin Bechtel, Senior Research Associate at the Crime and Justice Institute, who was published in the latest edition of Federal Probation. Her article is entitled Identifying the Predictors of Pretrial Failure: A Meta-Analysis. It can be found at http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/FederalCourts/PPS/Fedprob/2011-09/identifying.html. Congratulations and thank you to Kristin! To the staff of the Bellingham Resi-dence (Ehmed Seck, Program Man-ager, Hakeem Ajetunmobi, Herbert Butler, Washington Campbell, Mamadou Diallo, Habib Dicko, Land-ing Diedhiou, Raymond Jatta, Sooley-mane Kante, Younousse Ndoye, Baily Nipabi, Adekunle Tanimowo) for be-ing named CS Program of the Quar-ter.

To Lisa DelleChiaie, Assistant Direc-tor for Community Strategies, Lucie Lison, Resident Counselor at the Templeton Residence, and Cindy Gaudet, Job Coach in Community Strategies Shared Living Program for celebrating their 13th anniversaries in November and December. To Karyn Cargill for hosting State Representative James J. O’Day (D-West Boylston) on a tour and visit recently. Representative O’Day could not attend the West Boylston Open House and wanted to get to know the program. To Chris Desrosiers and Gillian Zim-merman for saving the life of a con-sumer in the Windsor Residence when she was self-injurious.

SHOUT OUTS

It is with pleasure that I am announcing a new program that will be offered to each of you through our preferred partnership with Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. As many of you may know En-terprise is the largest rental car company in the world and they offer many other vehicle services such as the man-agement of company car programs like ours. Through this great partnership Enterprise is extending some of their business offerings such as discounts on the following: - 5% off car and truck rentals - 10% off moving trucks, vans and other larger commercial vehicles — Access to great used vehicles with additional cash incentives (example: $500 or more above Kelley Blue Book on all trade-ins) - Access to their company’s partner discounts: 5% – 25% on select offerings from Dell, Garmin, Sprint, Calloway Golf and others. This section requires a password for entry. The PASSWORD = Fleet2 (case sensitive) Click on the following http://www.enterprise.com/car_rental/deeplinkmap.do?bid=028&refId=FLEET link, and with the website now open, go to your menu bar and select FILE -> SEND TO -> SHORTCUT TO DESKTOP. This will create a Trademark Enterprise “e” icon on your desktop that will take you directly to the Enterprise Fleet Management Preferred Partner eLink® webpage and associated offers. We are very excited to be able to provide you with these additional discount programs through Enterprise. Please remember that this program has been developed to provide you and your families with some great offers. Please respect the guidelines of the partner’s offerings and we hope you enjoy the new program benefits.

Enterprise Benefits By: Rebecca Cabaniss, Corporate Office Manager

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Calendar Year End - W2’s

Can you believe it is that time of year again to think about your W-2’s? Payroll needs your help to make sure that the information on your W-2”s is correct. Please notify Michael Pinto at 617-423-2020 x 2106 or at mpinto@crjustice.org with any changes. Please check your pay stub to make sure we have the correct: Social Security Spelling of your name Address

Employee Assistant Program Get the answers you need—when you need them:

Life, Health, Family, Money and Work

www.Lifeworks.com 888-456-1324

User name: community

Password: resources

401K Limits

IRS Limits for the 401K have increased for 2012. The annual limit has increased to $17,000.00. If you are 50 years or older you are eligible to participate in the catch up program. The catch up amount has stayed the same at $5,5000.00

HR Would Like To Present:

Self Service—payroll : In January, CRJ will be rolling out a new tool for all em-ployees call Self Service. This will allow all employees to view their information that is in the payroll system. Em-ployees will be allowed to: Change their address Change their direct deposit Change their tax exemption View and print their paystubs View and print their w-2’s Benergy—online benefits portal: This will allow employees to go to one website to view all the information regarding CRJ’s Benefits. You will be allowed to view and print : Benefit Summaries for all benefits Enrollment forms All HR and Payroll Forms ALL HR and Payroll Policies and Procedures Access the Self Service site The Benergy site will also give you tool to better man-age your health records and give you wellness tips . This will go live during January 2012 and we will be sending out information on how to access the site. Pay card (debit cards): CRJ will be distributing pay cards to all employees who don’t have direct deposit. Employees will hold onto these debit cards and they will be funded Friday morn-ing of every pay period. Why is CRJ making this change: Allows employees without direct deposit to access

their money quicker No more lost checks in the mail Follows with CRJ’s Green Initiative

We will be rolling this benefit out April 1, 2012 Stay tuned for more information

Human Resources Highlights

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CRJ HOLIDAY PARTY PHOTO ALBUM

Tom O’Connell receives the CEO Award Phillips Brooks House receives the Volunteer of the Year Award

Jim Greene receives the Gold Star

Eugenia Anderson receives the Gold Star Award

Ernie Goodno receives the Gold Star Award

Alicia Opidee receives the Gold Star Award

Goodwin Adansi receives the Gold Star Award

Larissa Young (left) receives the Gold Star Award

Kellyanne Lynch (above) receives the Gold Star Award

Gabriella Priest (right) receives the Gold Star Award

Medina Shanks receives the Gold Star Award