2023 Adult Redeploy Illinois All-Sites Summit: Building Equity, Access and Impact

We invite you to join us for the 2023 Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) All-Sites Summit: Building Equity, Access and Impact, in Bloomington, Illinois on May 22-23, 2023.

ARI has built a strong network of sites over the past 13 years. Our strengths are our presence throughout the State of Illinois, our commitment to enhancing knowledge of best practices in treatment and services, our compassion toward program participants receiving community-based treatment, and our people on the ground and in our programs. At this year’s Summit we look to the future to explore how we can use these assets to build equitable access to our programs and broaden our impact through local design and control, implementation of evidence-informed practices, and holistic support for those in the system.

The Summit will bring together multi-disciplinary team members from counties and judicial circuits operating ARI-funded local prison diversion programs to share best practices that continue to advance positive outcomes for ARI program participants.

The intended audience is a spectrum of ARI site representatives including, but not limited to, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, treatment providers, probation staff and supervisors, law enforcement, program coordinators, program partners, researchers, and policymakers.

Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) is a state grant program administered by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to expand alternatives to incarceration. The mission of ARI is to safely reduce prison use by building local systems that divert individuals from a prison sentence into more cost-effective programs that promote their reintegration into the community. ARI provides funding and technical assistance to Illinois communities to establish a continuum of sanctions and treatment alternatives that effectively address social determinants of crime and incarceration, and that promote equity within the justice system. ARI’s vision is of an equitable justice system that protects public safety and increases access to interventions, allowing people to avoid prison and lead productive lives in their community.

ARI has grown from five initial pilot sites in early 2011, to the current 28 sites implementing programs covering 44 Illinois counties.

For more information, visit the ARI website: https://icjia.illinois.gov/adultredeploy.

ARI staff is seeking your help identifying Vital Voices – current or former ARI participants – who would be interested in participating in a panel during the 2023 ARI All-Sites Summit on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Panelists would be invited to discuss their experiences in their ARI program. If you would like to include a Vital Voices participant, please reach out to Caitlyn Barnes (Caitlyn.Barnes@illinois.gov) or Mary Ann Dyar (MaryAnn.Dyar@illinois.gov).

Registration:

Please register for this event using a short survey by clicking here or scanning the QR code below.

There are no registration costs for the event; however, all participants must register for the Summit and lodging.

If you have questions regarding the registration survey, please contact Caitlyn Barnes, ARI Policy and Project Coordinator, Caitlyn.Barnes@illinois.gov.

Lodging:

Please complete your lodging reservations, if needed, by clicking here.

For existing ARI sites, mileage, lodging, and per diem costs should be covered by local program budgets. ARI participants must make lodging reservations on their own or through their ARI-funded programs.

Rooms reserved through the ARI block will have a cost of $109/night, which will be allowable as a travel expense due to the conference location.

The DoubleTree has set aside a block of rooms for the nights of Sunday, May 21 and Monday, May 22. Additional nights can be reserved by contacting the DoubleTree directly. Reservations should be made by Monday, May 15.

Additional information:

The expected start time for our event is 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 22. The Tuesday, May 23 program will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude by 4:00 p.m. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided on Tuesday.

Presentations

Additional Resources

On Adult Redeploy Illinois

Informationals from ARI sites

Note: These informationals are current as of May 2023.

For more information on the ARI network, please contact: Mary Ann Dyar, ARI Program Director (MaryAnn.Dyar@illinois.gov).

For more information, contact Mary Ann Dyar, ARI Program Director, MaryAnn.Dyar@illinois.gov.