Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for the Fort Lauderdale Community Court, which includes regular phone calls (approximately 1-2 times/month), regular email communication, supplying planning guides and other resources, and connecting local stakeholders to subject matter experts. Over the course of the 21-month grant, the Center will assist the site to engage a community court steering committee; conduct a community needs assessment; develop policies and procedures; implement a risk-needs tool; launch the community court project; collect and review performance data; and conduct a site visit to a model community court.
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Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute All-Site Kick-Off webinar on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. Attendees included preliminary planning team members from each of the five 2018 Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Problem-Solving Justice: Community Courts 101 webinar on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Attendees included preliminary planning team members and extended stakeholders from the five 2018 Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff develop and disseminate a community court needs assessment planning guide to help planners focus their efforts in the early stages of planning. Topics include guidelines for the collection of quantitative and qualitative data from a range of government and community sources, including through: resource mapping, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, community surveys, and other data pulls.
Center staff help community court planners through a needs assessment process that includes reviewing crime, caseload, and community demographic data; interviews and focus groups with project stakeholders; and the creation of a needs assessment report.
Center staff review implementation plan and provide feedback on operations before and after the project’s “soft launch” and through the more publicized “hard launch,” scheduled for January 2020.
Center staff provide performance measure templates and feedback, as well as request quarterly data trackers on key program indicators, such as number of participants served, number of participants referred to judicially monitored drug treatment, number of hours of community service completed, and number of community meetings attended.
Center staff planned and conducted a structured site visit to the 17th Judicial Circuit Community Court serving the City of Fort Lauderdale. The site visit included court/program observation; planning meetings with key project stakeholders; and a tour of the geographic catchment area. Center staff also met with Mayor Dean Trantalis; then- Vice Mayor, Ben Sorensen; and Chief Judge Jack Tuter, who champions, and continues to supervise this initiative.
Under the 2018 Community Court Grant Program, jurisdictions must implement validated risk and needs tools to match community court participants to interventions of the appropriate type and intensity. Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Risk Needs Responsivity (RNR) webinar on Monday, March 11, 2019, presenting the evidence basis for RNR theory and highlighting practical implementation tips. Attendees included core planning team members and extended stakeholders of the five 2018 Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff, including in-house experts on the topic of risk/needs assessments, review available tools and provide feedback on when the tool should be administered in the case flow process, as well as any necessary adaptations to the content.
Center staff organized and moderated a 90-minute webinar on community court responses to homelessness on Friday, April 19, 2019. Key stakeholders from the Spokane Community Court shared practical knowledge about engaging justice-involved individuals experiencing homelessness. Attendees included core planners of the five 2018 Community Court Grant Program sites; planners from jurisdictions receiving no-cost technical assistance under the FY17 Supplement; and other mentors (outside of Spokane) in the mentor community court network.
Center staff assist community court planners to identify justice system stakeholders to participate in regular steering committee meetings and provide input on program planning and operations. The client convened its first steering committee meeting on May 9, 2019; meetings are scheduled to be monthly.
Center staff organized and hosted a structured site visit to the Brooklyn Justice Initiatives, Midtown Community Court, Bronx Community Solutions, the Red Hook Community Justice Center, and the Center for Court Innovation Main Office for planners of the 17th Judicial Circuit Community Court. The site visit included court observation, meeting with the judge and other key players, and talking with on-site social service providers.
Center staff organized and moderated the 90-minute Community Engagement webinar on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. The webinar featured representatives from South Dallas Community Court in Dallas, TX; the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York; and the Center for Court Innovation’s Community Development and Crime Prevention department. Attendees included planning team members from each of the five Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Criminal Court Assessment Tool (C-CAT) training webinar. Attendees included core planners from two implementation sites in the 2018 Community Court Grant Program planning to use C-CAT for community court: Nashville, TN and Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Center staff organized and moderated a 90-minute web-based all-sites mixer on October 7, 2019 to provide a networking opportunity for peer-to-peer exchanges of updates, highlights, and implementation challenges experienced thus far in planning. Attendees included planning team members from each of the five Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Criminal Court Assessment Tool (C-CAT) training webinar. Attendees included core planners from the 2018 Community Court Grant Program Wilmington (DE), Fort Lauderdale (FL), and Nashville (TN) implementation sites. All three sites intend to use C-CAT for community court.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Center staff supported each sub-grantee as they made adjustments to community court operations to support their most vulnerable populations, while promoting the court’s responsiveness to the pandemic by improving systems for remote engagement and making preparations for re-opening.
Center staff provided each sub-grantee a no-cost grant extension through August, 31, 2020.
Center staff organized and moderated a 60-minute webinar on cultivating strong partnerships with service providers in evolving provider networks. The webinar featured representatives from Olympia Community Court.
Center staff organized and presented in a 90-minute webinar discussing procedural justice theory, offering concrete examples of how community courts around the country are implementing procedural justice.
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