EvidenceBased Practices: Tools You Can Use

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Evidence-Based PracticesTools You Can Use

• What Can
• the Task Force Websites Do for You?

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What have TFIDs grant funds accomplished since
the first Workshop in 2003?
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Task Force on Indigent Defense Website
www.courts.state.tx.us/tfid/
See the handout for links to specific TFID
documents and resources
Terri Tuttle runs this fabulous website!
Click here to access the grant reporting website
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TFID Grant Reporting Website

• Home page http//tfid.tamu.edu

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TFID Grant Reporting Website (contd)

• What The database is a vortex of indigent
  defense-related data for Texas counties. Counties
  can use the website to report data, submit their
  Indigent Defense county plan, apply for TFID
  grants, view compare county data, and more.

• Why This is one source of the evidence in
  evidence-based practices the data is used for
  TFID reports, calculating grant formulas
  disbursements, strategic planning, etc. The
  website can be a great resource to counties as
  well.

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TFID Grant Reporting Website (contd)

• When Counties can log in anytime. Deadlines for
  reports, ID plan submission and grant
  applications are posted on the website calendar.
• Who The website is used by TFID,
• counties, legislators, the public
• (a read-only version of the site is available at
• http//tfid.tamu.edu/Public/)

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So Whos Behind the Curtain?

• Public Policy Research Institute
• Dottie Carmichael, PhD - Research Scientist
• Darby Johnson - Project Supervisor
• Jim VanBeek - Senior IT Manager

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Who Do I Contact?

• Whitney Stark, Grants Administrator
• Contact about anything TFID-grant/disbursement
  related, specific grant program reporting
  questions
• whitney.stark_at_courts.state.tx.us
• [phone]
• Darby Johnson
• Contact about password/user log-in, send county
  plan and resolution, updating contact info,
  change contact persons
• djohnson_at_ppri.tamu.edu
• [phone]