Tag: Roca Impact Institute
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May 24, 2025
Roca on the AAA-ICDR Foundation Podcast
Roca’s Molly Baldwin and Lloyd Wells join Tracey Frisch from the American Arbitration Association to talk about how Rewire4 is reimagining the future of policing.
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April 17, 2025
WA DCYF Partners With Roca Impact Institute To Strengthen Behavioral Support and Leadership Development At Harbor Heights
The Roca Impact Institute announced a new partnership with the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families to support DCYF’s initiative to strengthen behavioral support and leadership development at Harbor Heights, the new Juvenile Rehabilitation facility.
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February 6, 2025
Roca training St. Louis violence interrupters on new strategies
Roca working with violence interrupters Show Me Peace in the first phase of several initiatives underway through the Save Lives Now regional plan in St. Louis.
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December 30, 2024
Massachusetts sheriff introduces training to help corrections officers manage stress
While regular people experience stress from traffic jams or arguments, the men and women who serve in law enforcement experience stress on a different level every day. Now, the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department is using a new training aimed at helping incoming corrections officers regulate their emotions and stress.
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October 11, 2023
Key takeaways from iMPACT Maryland
Some of the Baltimore’s foremost experts in gun violence coalesced around the need for more accurate data in real time that would help inform policy decisions for violence intervention workers in the public and private spheres. The Roca Impact Institute’s JT Timpson is quoted.
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May 23, 2023
Changing thought patterns and rewiring the brain to prevent gun violence
CHICAGO (CBS) — What does brain science have to do with gun violence? A whole lot, if you ask one gun violence prevention group here in Chicago.
CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey got a look at how a program seeks to prevent gun violence by encouraging different ways of thinking and coping – and thus, rewiring the brain.
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May 23, 2023
‘Where has this training been all my life?’: How healing trauma could actually reform policing
This approach isn’t a panacea to stopping police violence. There isn’t one. But we believe this is part of the solution.
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August 15, 2022
Look at me now
Using neuroscience to help at-risk kids — and change Maryland’s juvenile justice system.
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March 24, 2022
Maryland Department of Juvenile Services partners with Roca
BALTIMORE — The Maryland DJS will partner with the Roca Impact Institute to focus on adolescent brain science, the impact of trauma on kids’ brains, and cognitive behavioral theory (CBT).