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July-Dec. Application approved for NACDL Staff Attorney to assist in reviewing, evaluating, designing and implementing a training curriculum for approximately 60 defenders. Have met with the head of their office and working to develop training for their attorney staff. The office has very limited resources.
January-June 2024: Prior conviction impeachment webinar was held on June 27, 2024.
July-Dec.2023: On August 31, 2023, APA hosted a webinar on race-blind charging in YOLO County DA as a model policy and practice.
On October 11 and 12, Center staff Taylor DeClerck and Shawn Rogers traveled to the 2023 Coordinator/Case Manager conference hosted by the Wisconsin Association of Treatment Court Professionals (WATCP). They delivered two presentations. First one titled "Case Management for Justice Professionals: How to lead from the front line" provided the fundamentals for comprehensive case management, how to become participant-oriented and community based, and assisting with needs outside of substance use treatment.
Center staff provided training to 10 individuals from Tacoma, WA and Arlington, TX
Center staff provided CCAT and Risk-Need Responsivity Training to 2 individuals from Albany, GA.
Center staff provided Risk-Need-Responsivity and CCAT training to Bothell, WA
Lindsey Price Jackson participated as an expert panelist about community courts and the need for alternatives to incarceration. The panel was titled "Panel: Community Courts in Practice"
A panel hosted by CJI to discuss serving Community Justice needs/principles in planning a community court. The panel included Judge Alex Calabrese (former judge from Red Hook Community Justice Center); Robert Kingham (Downtown Austin Community Court); Lynn Pride Richardson (Chief Public Defender of Dallas County); and Shegufta Huma (CJI Presenter/Moderator).
People centered practices, procedural justice, research findings, and practical examples
The Center maintains a Court-Builders listserv that hosts 520 active subscribers and shares examples of promising practices, lessons learned, and timely news among the community court field. The listserv continues to be a valuable tool for peer-to-peer communication. From January through June 2023, users made 34 original posts (with many more posts in response) that included updated practices in the field, questions about current services that courts are offering, and support around common issues.
