The ALLY Institute at RAND
The ALLY Foundation has made definitive steps toward the success of our mission. We have recently partnered with impeccably credentialed
RAND Corporation to establish and manage a clearinghouse for the collection, analysis and dissemination of applied research and evidence-based practices for the prevention, management and economics of violent and sexual crime.
This Institute will be available to inform legislation and the public by providing their resulting data to differing audiences, with sections for researchers, policy makers, and community members that match their interests.
The partnership with RAND Corporation provides the research credibility that The ALLY Foundation could never have achieved in isolation. It allows us to move forward to focus on the igniting awareness on the campuses of our nation and the in enclaves of the normal citizens to make this prevention goal a reality.
The ALLY Foundation and RAND support the implementation of a prevention approach that is comprehensive and systematically linked. All aspects and disciplines from architecture, business, criminal justice, treatment, management in the community and use of preventive technology are incorporated. Two integral areas of focus will be Juvenile Intervention and the use of Actuarial Risk Assessment where pivotal.
Now that we can rely upon the ALLY Institute at RANDs research as well as other invested organizations, we will turn our focus to the development and support of vehicles to ignite public awareness and relentlessly market the vision that we can create an effective difference. Our target is to be perceived as the national awareness voice for the prevention of violent and sexual crime and victimization. Our credentials are borne of our devastating personal loss.
Wasting Our Precious Resources
Legislative Briefing Presentation
SORNA
Massachusetts Children and Families Committee
June 23, 2009
Should you think that I am soft on violent and sexual crime, let me assure you that there is a dark painful part of my soul that wants people who hurt other people to never take another comfortable breath. However let us be intelligent. Given that we are a society of law, let us demand that the laws we do enact achieve their intended mission. Let us stop creating a false sense of security and wasting our precious resources on laws that simply do not work.
Andrea M. Casanova
Get Involved
One of the most critical responsibilities of The ALLY Foundation is to raise the visibility of the sexual violence problem in every American community, as well as across the globe.
As most people react to the subject from a position of fear, anger, and/or ignorance, we strive to open up an enlightening and empowering national dialog. Our success in developing a national campaign to communicate the magnitude of this epidemic depends, in large part, on local and national support for our research and advocacy efforts.
