Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for the Second Chance Community Improvement Program, 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 two-year 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 project; collect and review performance data; and 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 May 18, 2016. Attendees included preliminary planning team members from each of the ten Community Court Grant Program sites.
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 10/24; meetings are scheduled to be quarterly.
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 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 also provide guidance on the implementation of a community survey.
Center staff review case flow procedures and provide feedback on operations before and after the project’s “soft launch” and through the more publicized “hard launch,” scheduled for January 2018. A complete list of local press is noted in the Semi-Annual report.
Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Procedural Justice webinar on 1/30/2017. Attendees included planning team members from each of the ten Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff help community court planners develop a policies and procedures manual for the project, to include topics such as geographic catchment area, ongoing community engagement plan, hours of operation and schedule, staffing, eligibility criteria, case flow, judicially monitored drug treatment and other service linkages, and community service protocols. Dallas SCCIP court continues to draft and revise its policies and procedures manual.
Center staff organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Case Management webinar on 3/20/2017. Attendees included planning team members from each of the ten Community Court Grant Program sites.
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 organized and served as faculty for the 90-minute Reviewing the Annotated Data Tracker webinar on 7/14/2017. Attendees included planning team members from each of the ten Community Court Grant Program sites.
Center staff organized and hosted structured site visits to the Brownsville Community Justice Center, Red Hook Community Justice Center, and Midtown Community Court for planners of the Second Chance Community Improvement Program. The site visits included court observation, meeting with the judge and other key players, and talking with on-site social service providers.
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