$680 Million in Non Profit Grants & Contacts with James Copple

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James E. Copple has a long and distinguished career in youth work, education, substance abuse, crime and violence prevention and police/criminal justice reform. A nationally recognized facilitator, speaker and writer in this field, Mr. Copple facilitated the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing for the Department of Justice in 2015, achieving consensus on all recommendations and action steps. He helped to write the final report to the White House, authored the Implementation Guide and the One Year Report on progress toward implementation of the recommendations.

Since that time, Mr. Copple has facilitated a number of complex and controversial state and city-wide working groups or task forces focused on police and criminal justice reforms including those just released in 2020: The Federal Priorities Task Force for the Council on Criminal Justice, the Working Group on Police-Involved Deadly Force Encounters for the State of Minnesota, and the Special Council on Gun Violence Report for the Governor of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Copple served as the Founding President of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Crime Prevention Council in Washington, D.C., President of the International Institute for Alcohol Awareness, Senior Policy Analyst for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and most recently, the Founding Partner of Strategic Applications International, LLC.

Mr. Copple has facilitated 22 state-wide action planning summits on Methamphetamine Prevention and Enforcement, numerous summits on violence prevention, gun prevention, and comprehensive planning on alcohol prevention among underage youth. He has managed a major initiative for the Department of Justice on Rural Methamphetamine Use and Breaking the Cycle: Methamphetamine in Indian Country working with 40 tribes.

He has delivered major addresses in every state of the union and spoken in thirty different nations, including a major facilitation between the nation of Israel and the Palestinian Authority on youth substance abuse and violence prevention at the request of the State Dept.

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