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                  - Grants                      - Project Grants
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                  - News
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### Supporting the Nation's Judicial System & the Public it Serves

## SJI News & Announcements

## SJI was established by federal law in 1984 to improve the quality of justice in state courts, and foster innovative, efficient solutions to common issues faced by all courts. To fulfill this mission, SJI awards grants that benefit the nation’s judicial system and the public it serves.

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### SJI Releases FY 2018 Grant Guideline

SJI recently released the Grant Guideline for FY 2018.  The Grant Guideline appears as part of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Federal Register, and sets forth the administrative, programmatic, and financial requirements for applying for and administering SJI grants. Fiscal Year 2018 Deadlines for Project, Technical Assistance, and Curriculum Adaptation Grants are as follows: 1st … 

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### Center for Sentencing Initiatives Shares New Brief

A new brief by the National Center for State Courts’ Center for Sentencing Initiatives, funded in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts, addresses evidence-based sentencing (EBS) as part of a comprehensive sentencing policy for probation-eligible felony offenders. Intended for a judicial audience, the brief: defines evidence-based sentencing; explains what risk and needs assessment (RNA) instruments … 

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### SJI Supports National Opioid Task Force

The misuse of opioids such as heroin, morphine, and prescription pain medicines is not only a devastating public health crisis, it is critically affecting the administration of justice in courthouses throughout the United States. The number of children in foster care because of parental substance abuse has nearly tripled since 2012, and drug overdose deaths … 

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### SJI Awards FY 2017  Fourth Quarter Grants

The SJI Board of Directors met on September 11, 2017, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to make decisions on quarterly grant applications, and awarded a total of four new grants. A Strategic Initiatives Grant (SIG) was awarded to the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), in partnership with the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ), the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) to … 

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### NCSC Releases Civil Justice Initiative White Paper

A white paper is now available from the Civil Justice Initiative that explores the feasibility of using data elements that are routinely collected in court case management systems to triage cases into the most appropriate pathway for civil case processing. The study is based on actual case complexity as measured by the degree of judicial … 

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### Called to Action: 5 Years of Improving  Language Access in the State Courts

Five years ago, state court leaders from across the country convened at the 2012 National Summit on Language Access in the Courts, where representatives from 49 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia were present.  The 2013 release of the publication A National Call to Action: Access to Justice for Limited English Proficient Litigants outlined a set of nine … 

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#### SJI GRANTEE SPOTLIGHTS

                  -  Update to the Juvenile Delinquency Guidelines – Processing Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts
		    	June 1, 2024 					
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                  -  Reducing Conflict with Families in Transition
		    	May 1, 2024 					
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                  -  The Housing Navigator Program
		    	April 1, 2024 					
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                  -  Judicial Innovation Fellowship Program
		    	March 1, 2024 					
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#### SJI NEWSLETTER

June 2024 Vol.34 No.9

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