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June 2022 | Vol. 32, No. 9

Grantee Spotlight: Mississippi Center for Justice - Justice

Court Access Program

Each county in Mississippi contains its own Justice

Court where community members bring legal actions to

settle local, small-dollar disputes. Court regulations and

policies vary in each county, and they can be incredibly

confusing for Mississippians to navigate, almost all of

which are pro se litigants. The COVID-19 pandemic

created more variation as judges and court staff

introduced... Read more

In the News

SJI Court Pandemic Response and Recovery Program Updates

Through a competitive grant process, SJI selected twelve projects that assist state and

local courts in their response to, and recovery from, COVID-19, with a look towards the

future of court operations. These projects focus on institutionalizing and/or replicating

practices that were implemented during the pandemic, ensuring access and fairness, and

include a review of costs and benefits, not only to the courts, but also to court users.

Grantees met virtually in March of 2022 to share insights gained from each of the projects

described below. Grantee observations were synthesized in the Court Pandemic Response

and Recovery Grant Program Roundtable report. Additionally, resources for... Read more

Task Force Releases Comprehensive Guidelines, Principles for Juvenile Mental

Health Diversion

Task Force Releases Comprehensive Guidelines, Principles for Juvenile Mental Health

Diversion Upwards of 70% of young people in the justice system have a diagnosed mental

disorder, and 90% have experienced a traumatic life event that can negatively impact their

mental health. To assist courts and service providers in addressing the growing mental

health crisis, the National Judicial Task Force to Examine Courts’ Response to Mental
Illness recently released a set of Juvenile Justice Mental Health Diversion Guidelines and

Principles... Read more

New Videos Explain the Basics of Conservatorships

The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has just released a new set of resources to

help courts monitor conservatorship cases. A three-part video series for court staff is now

available online and provides guidance on case management, detecting red flags and

ways to respond to suspected fraud or abuse. The videos - Monitoring Conservatorship

and Guardianship Cases, Red Flags in Financial Reports and Responses to Potential

Fraud or Abuse – provide specific instruction on how court staff can ensure... Read more

Announcements

June is Elder Abuse

Awareness Month,

acknowledging the

significance of elder

abuse as a public health

and human rights issue. The

purpose is to provide an opportunity

for communities around the world to

promote a better understanding of

abuse and neglect of older people

by raising awareness of the cultural,

social, economic and demographic

processes affecting elder abuse and

neglect. For more information,

please visit: Raising Awareness –

World Elder Abuse Awareness.

Upcoming Webinar!

Emerging Issues in

Neuroscience for Judges

The National Judicial College will be

hosting this webinar on June 22nd,

2022, starting at 2:00PM EST.

Neuroscience has provided insights

that have influenced the Supreme

Court’s view of whether youth ought

to be tried or punished as adults. In

short, the nexus between science

and law is of increasing importance

and this webinar aims to enhance

courts’ understanding

of neuroscience for the

administration of justice. Register

here.

Upcoming Webinar!

Implicit Bias and

Juror Decision

Making. The

National Center for

State Courts

(NCSC) will be hosting this webinar

on June 17th, 2022 at 1:00PM EST.

Learn about implicit bias and how it

affects decision making by all

participants in criminal trials,

including judges and jurors. For

Register Now! The

National Association for

Court Management

(NACM) 2022 Annual

Conference is taking place from July

10-14th, 2022 in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin. The conference theme is

Courts Leading the Way in

Advancing Justice: A Call to Action.

This theme will focus on the

important concept that justice

reform must come from within
more information and to register

today, click here.

courts across the globe.

Register here.

Upcoming

Conference! Join

the National Council of

Juvenile and Family

Court Judges (NCJFCJ) in Reno,

Nevada, for the 85th Annual

Conference, July 17-20th, 2022,

which will feature amazing

presentations on current and cutting

edge topics that will inspire you,

broaden your knowledge, and

provoke discussions about issues

facing the juvenile and family court

system. Register here.

Upcoming

Webinar! Judicial

Guardianship

Evaluation: A New Tool

for Judges. Judges who preside

over guardianship cases are

required to make determinations of

capacity and to decide whether a

guardianship is necessary to protect

individuals who are unable to make

decisions on their own behalf.

NCSC will be hosting this webinar

on June 21st, 2022, at 1:00PM

EST. Register here.

Apply today! Hybrid

Hearings Improvement

Initiative. This project

will provide state and

local courts an opportunity to learn

from and improve upon pandemicera best practices and to create

permanent changes to their hearing

practices. Grants will be awarded to

10 to 20 jurisdictions to support the

cost of technology equipment and

installation of the equipment in at

least one courtroom in the

jurisdiction, integration with existing

systems (when appropriate) and

technical assistance to support

preliminary operation of the

equipment. Application Deadline:

July 13, 2022, apply here.

New Pretrial Survey!

With support from State

Justice Institute, the

National Center for

State Courts (NCSC) is conducting

surveys of state courts to learn

more about their pretrial policy

changes since the onset of the

COVID-19 pandemic. This survey is

primarily intended for judges and

court leadership who can answer

questions about state or local

pretrial policies and practices. Your

participation will provide insights for

developing tools to support effective

pretrial practices and overcome

recent challenges. Take the survey

now at: Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics

Experience Management

If you are interested in sharing court related news or announcements in the SJI newsletter,

please send all content to contact@sji.gov by the 10th of the month.
The next deadline to submit a

grant application to SJI

is Aug 1, 2022.

Learn more about SJI grants and apply

today!

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