Case Processing

Meeting between the Director of Youth and Community Development for SCO for the exchange of information and a more comprehensive understanding between BCJC programming and SCO

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Pima County Community Court (AZ), 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Paterson 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Luce County 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Fresh Start Program 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Kansas City Municipal 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for JCCS, 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 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; and collect and review performance data.

Center staff also met virtually with each grantee site at least once per month throughout the reporting period. During these calls, Center staff helped sites to define project goals and action plans, provided individualized project guidance, and deepened discussions that began during all-site webinars. Center staff also took further steps outside of the monthly calls to advance Eugene's project, including offering trainings, participating in stakeholder meetings, and arranging information-sharing sessions when useful.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for Dane County 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. Center staff presented on the BJA Community Court Initiative and on the guiding principles of community justice to the Dane County, WI, Community Justice Council-Community Court Advisory Subcommittee.

Throughout this reporting period, Center staff continued to host video calls with the sites from the 2020 cohort that remain operating under a no-cost extension. In addition to providing individualized technical assistance, as needed, Center staff invited each of the remaining FY20 cohort community courts to participate in the recent all-site webinars, and several of their staff members contributed to the discussion by sharing their experience and advice for new courts in the FY22 cohort. Their insight was invaluable and highly appreciated by the new cohort of grantees.