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NACDL and its partners offer ongoing technical assistance to capital defense teams who attended Bring-Your-Own-Case (BYOC) programs or in-office training programs conducted under the Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI). This technical assistance leverages topics covered during the BYOC programs, surfaces topics that are needed in future training programs, and helps NACDL and its partners track and monitor trainee teams’ case status.
NACDL and its partners offer ongoing technical assistance to capital defense teams who attended Bring-Your-Own-Case (BYOC) programs or in-office training programs conducted under the Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI). This technical assistance leverages topics covered during the BYOC programs, surfaces topics that are needed in future training programs, and helps NACDL and its partners track and monitor trainee teams’ case status.
NACDL and its partners offer ongoing technical assistance to capital defense teams who attended Bring-Your-Own-Case (BYOC) programs or in-office training programs conducted under the Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI). This technical assistance leverages topics covered during the BYOC programs, surfaces topics that are needed in future training programs, and helps NACDL and its partners track and monitor trainee teams’ case status.
NACDL and its partners offer ongoing technical assistance to capital defense teams who attended Bring-Your-Own-Case (BYOC) programs or in-office training programs conducted under the Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI). This technical assistance leverages topics covered during the BYOC programs, surfaces topics that are needed in future training programs, and helps NACDL and its partners track and monitor trainee teams’ case status.
NACDL will send attorney and mitigation specialist subject matter experts to Missouri to train multiple offices (including newly hired staff) on best practices in mitigation. The training will focus on trainees existing cases and utilize the Bring-Your-Own-Case (BYOC) model to the extent feasible.
Center staff Karen Otis and Courtney Williams delivered a presentation at the 13th annual Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Enhancement Training on September 12-14, 2023 in Palm Springs, California titled "Strength-Based Language: Understanding the Impact of Word Choice on Treatment Court Outcomes". In this session, attendees learned how the way treatment court team members speak to and about court participants can impact their success.
The Center for Court Innovation will lead a two-year national research project explicitly designed to bring together leading subject matter experts, drug court researchers, and drug court practitioners in order to strengthen the theoretical and measurement foundation of drug court research and seed a new generation of rigorous evaluation.
The Center provides a wide range of support in response to requests for assistance, including sharing publications, research, planning guides, and other resources; and connects practitioners with peers at community courts around the country. This reporting period, the Center’s training and technical assistance team responded to nine requests for assistance and assisted practitioners from a variety of locations. The team assisted a counseling and recovery center in Lakewood, WA with automating the Criminal Court Assessment Tool (CCAT).
Six New York State legislators visited Midtown Community Court in order to observe the misdemeanor mental health court and receive both a legal and clinical overview of MCC's programs.
CJI is collaborating with CSG and BJA to assess the impact of JRI. This includes conducting research in Louisiana to demonstrate JRI impact on systems, communities, and people. For this project, CJI is assessing two JRI funded initiatives housed within the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections (DPS&C) – Regional Reentry Centers (RRCs) and Community Incentive Grants (CIGs). This assessment has both a qualitative and quantitative component. CJI received data for DPS&C’s offender management database (CAJUN) earlier this year.
