The SJI Board of Directors met on September 10, 2018, at the Supreme Court of Nebraska to make decisions on quarterly grant applications and awarded a total of 11 new grants. Five (5) Strategic Initiatives Grants were awarded: the National Judicial Opioid Task Force (NJOTF) to begin critical work on the impact of children and opioids …
Read MoreThe National Judicial Opioid Task Force (NJOTF), in collaboration with the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center, held the first of three webinars earlier this month. The series is designed to help participants gain greater knowledge about how state courts can, and already are, working with prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) to …
Read MoreThe Education Support Program (ESP) supports full-time state court judges and court managers to attend courses that enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities which they could not otherwise attend because of limited state, local, and personal budgets. The National Judicial College (NJC) and the National Center for State Courts/Institute for Court Management (ICM) will administer …
Read MoreThe National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the SJI-funded Community Engagement in the State Courts Initiative is supporting up to six pilot projects to learn more about how courts can best engage the public to improve trust and confidence in the judiciary. The selected courts will receive as much as $30,000 in funding; technical …
Read MoreThe National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) and the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), with support from the SJI, released the fifth in a series of bench cards, titled, Addressing Bias in Delinquency and Child Welfare Systems. This bench card emphasizes eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile and family courts as …
Read MoreThe Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver will host a webinar that highlights the results of Arizona’s court system transformation. The webinar will be offered on Thursday, September 20, 2018, at 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT and MST (AZ). Registration is required, and there is no cost …
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