EPIC - Evidence-Based Practices Implementation for Capacity

Welcome to the EPIC Project home page.  EPIC stands for Evidence-Based Practices Implementation for Capacity.  The project was created by the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCCJJ) in 2009 to implement evidence-based practices into the criminal justice system.  The CCCJJ generates recommendations aimed at improving the criminal justice system in effective and long lasting ways, which is especially important in a time when resources are limited.  EPIC was created based on several recommendations made by the CCCJJ subcommittees. 

EPIC is following Implementation Science.  This helps the project implement evidence-based innovations in a way that helps participants build skills in an effective, sustainable way to facilitate a system change in the criminal justice system in Colorado.  EPIC’s process utilizes training, coaching, and feedback from taped and live interviews as well as regular ongoing practice sessions to help participants build skills in a way that helps them incorporate them into their job duties. 

Too often, participants attend trainings to learn skills that only teach them in a classroom setting.  A lot of the time, there is no follow up after the training to help the participant build new skills and apply them to what they do.  The EPIC project works to provide this necessary follow up by conducting in person coaching of a participant’s skills in their own work environment along with practice sessions to build new skills that they can use to be more effective in the work that they do.  Without this follow up, participants generally leave training and quickly return to doing things the way that they used to. 

To learn more about the project, what it is doing, and how it is doing it, click on the links to the left or visit our Facebook Page.