Supporting the people who support New Yorkers.
Every day, staff across justice and public health systems support people navigating crisis and instability. The NYC Justice Training Institute strengthens that work by giving practitioners the skills, support, and community they need to help people stabilize and thrive.
Our trainings focus on building trust, responding to distress, sustaining engagement and providing compassionate, evidence-informed tools and coaching to support staff in their roles.
Core Skills
Trauma-responsive engagement, relational safety, crisis stabilization, motivational interviewing, retention practices, and evidence-based non-licensed models.
Expanding Clinical Capacity
Advanced modalities, case formulation, tele-coaching with specialists, and access to shared clinical supervisors for licensure support.
Data & Quality of Service
Best practices for diversion, reentry, high-needs stabilization, collaborative case planning, and precision public health/public safety integration.
Leadership & Supervision
Coaching, reflective supervision, team culture, and building high-quality supportive practice environments.
On-Demand Trainings
Visit the Justice Training Institute Library for pre-recorded trainings offered by partners nationwide.
Upcoming Trainings & Events
Events
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988 Crisis Systems Response: Early Childhood and Youth Mental Health: Strengthening Crisis Response for Infants, Young Children, and Their Caregivers
This webinar will introduce key considerations for addressing behavioral health crises among infants, young children, youth, and their families within a coordinated crisis care continuum. Grounded in SAMHSA’s National Guidelines […]
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Stony Brook School of Social Welfare: Compulsive Gambling: A Lived and Professional Perspective on Addiction and Recovery – 3 CEC
The presenter will integrate lived experience with professional expertise and the latest clinical research on the epidemiology, assessment, and treatment of gambling disorder. The workshop will also provide a historical […]
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Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute: Addictions and Youth: Substances, Technology, Porn – 6 CEC
Youth who are struggling with an addiction often resist attempts at intervention. While some youth are merely experimenting, others may have larger unmet needs that can lead to a negative […]
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Benefits Plus Learning Center: Cash Assistance Application Process – 2 CEU
Course Description Once a client appears to meet the eligibility criteria for the Cash Assistance program, it’s time to file the application! This course will discuss the ways to apply […]
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JTI Hosts: Center for Urban Community Services: Introduction to Supportive Housing
Supportive housing combines affordable housing with services designed to help people with behavioral health conditions, histories of homelessness, and other complex needs, including a history of incarceration, achieve long-term stability. […]
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988 Crisis Systems Response: From Standards to Practice: Strategies for Crisis Workforce Wellbeing (Part 2)
Drawing on SAMHSA’s Advisory: Model Standards for Crisis Care Workers and the national guidance introduced in Part 1, this webinar will move from understanding the Model Standards to examining selected […]
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Benefits Plus Learning Center: Cash Assistance Rental Subsidy Program: FHEPS – 2 CEU
The Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (FHEPS) is a rental subsidy for families with children in NYC who are on Cash Assistance (CA). In this course, we will briefly review […]
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Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute: De-escalating Potentially Violent Situations – 6 CEC
If you work with people, it’s crucial to know how to defuse dangerous situations before they become violent. This workshop will equip you with a trauma-informed approach to de-escalate situations with confidence, […]
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JTI Hosts: Center for Urban Community Services: NYC Supportive Housing Applications: Best Practices
A complete and well-developed supportive housing application is critical to accurately presenting the client’s needs, strengths, and eligibility for housing. Incomplete documentation or insufficient information can delay approval and reduce […]
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988 Crisis Systems Response: Mobile Crisis Response: Evidence-Based Models & Co-Responder Approaches
This second webinar builds on the mobile crisis foundations introduced in Webinar 1 by examining how communities structure the “someone to respond” component of a coordinated behavioral health crisis continuum. […]
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Codesmith: Foundational Launchpad
Foundational Launchpad is a no-cost, fully online, primarily self-paced foundation and career-exploration/readiness program delivered in partnership with the Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP). You work through the curriculum on your own […]
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Benefits Plus Learning Center: The A, B, C’s and D’s of Medicare – 2 CEU
Medicare Part A, Part B, Part D – and what’s Part C? It is important to have a basic understanding of Medicare to better assist Medicare beneficiaries. This course will […]
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988 Crisis Systems Response: Connecting Through Faith: Promoting 988 in Faith-Based Communities
Appropriate and effective communication and marketing strategies are essential to building awareness and understanding of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and connecting people to crisis support when they need […]
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Stony Brook School of Social Welfare: Trauma-Informed Nutrition in Substance Use Recovery – 3 CEC
Many individuals in recovery have complex trauma histories that influence eating behaviors, body image, and food access. This training introduces a trauma-informed framework for discussing nutrition in substance use treatment […]
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Benefits Plus Learning Center: Coordination of Medicaid and Medicare – 2.5 CEU
Dual eligibles are those who have both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Learn about how Medicare and Medicaid coverage work together, as well as instances when they do not, and coverage […]
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Benefits Plus Learning Center: Housing Court: Nonpayment Eviction Cases & A Roadmap for Navigating NYC Housing Court – 2 CEU
Non-attorney advocates can play an important role in helping residential tenants navigate housing court in NYC, especially in the wake of COVID-19. Learn about the current landscape of housing court, […]
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Stony Brook School of Social Welfare: Understanding and Managing Anger: Evidence-Informed Strategies for Clinical Practice – 3 CEC
Anger is a normal human emotion, but when left unmanaged, it can significantly impact emotional well-being, relationships, and treatment outcomes. This workshop explores anger through the lenses of neuroscience and […]
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Future Code NYC x Codesmith
Future Code NYC x Codesmith is a 42-week, no-cost program designed to transform New Yorkers into full-stack engineers ready to lead in the modern tech landscape. Delivered in partnership with […]
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Stony Brook School of Social Welfare: Countertransference in Challenging Times: Maintaining Therapeutic Presence – 3 CEC
When our socio-political environment is acutely challenging, both therapist and client are often navigating a similar internal and external crisis. Within the context of global stress, countertransference is heightened. Objective […]
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“Nobody ever spoke to me like that before”: Improving Interactions Within the Justice System
A small group of New Yorkers keep cycling through the justice system without ever getting the support that could help them heal. Yet even the briefest encounters can become moments of care, connection, and real change.
This report shares insights from a National Clinical Roundtable hosted by MOCJ and CJI on how to make everyday system touchpoints more human, more therapeutic, and more effective for the people who need them most.
“One of the real advantages of therapeutic assessment is when we ask clients what are their questions, they get engaged. And we collaborate with them on the search for little answers..”
MOCJ Justice Programs combine evidence, practice, and humanity—strengthening skills while honoring the lived experience, cultural context, and goals of the people we serve.
Reentry + Supervised Release + Transitional Housing + Alternatives to Incarceration + Project Reset
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