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                  - Grant Management
                  - About SJI                      - Board of Directors
                    - Executive Director
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# Improving the Quality of Justice in our State Courts

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## State Justice Institute

### The State Justice Institute (SJI) was established by federal law in 1984 to award grants to improve the quality of justice in state courts, and foster innovative, efficient solutions to common issues faced by all courts.

###### APPLYING FOR AND MANAGING GRANTS

									Grant applications are accepted and reviewed on a quarterly basis.									All new grant application submissions must be made via the online 									Grant Management System (GMS).  Additionally, all active awards must be 									managed in the GMS.								

###### GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINE

									The next deadline to submit a grant application to SJI is May 1, 2024.								

###### SEARCH SJI GRANTS

SJI continues to make all grant reports and most grant products available online through the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) Digital Archive.

###### FUNDING TOOLKIT

Visit SJI’s Funding Toolkit for State Courts and Justice System Partners to learn about additional grant opportunities, access grant resources, and to request grant writing technical assistance. 

#### SJI NEWSLETTER

March 2024 Vol.34 No.6

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## SJI Grantee Spotlights

### The Housing Navigator Program

FEATUREDApril 1, 2024

The Good Neighbor Emergency Assistance (GNEA) and the Iowa Judicial Branch have partnered to support The Housing Navigator Program. The Navigator at GNEA assists their clients in finding sustainable forms of housing assistance in Story County, Iowa, with the aim of preventing homelessness.  They work with clients holistically to determine which programs offered by the ... 

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          -  Judicial Innovation Fellowship Program
March 1, 2024

The Judicial Innovation Fellowship (JIF) is an initiative incubated at the Justice Lab at Georgetown Law Center’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy.  The JIF is a year-long fellowship for technologists, designers, and user testers to transform justice across state, local, territorial, and tribal courts. It is an exciting new opportunity for technologists, product people, and designers ... 
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          -  Advancing Pretrial Justice Initiative
February 1, 2024

Pretrial policies have undergone significant change and advancement over the last decade. In 2013, the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) endorsed the COSCA Policy Paper on Evidence-Based Pretrial Release. CCJ and COSCA also hosted five Pretrial Regional Summits between May 2016 and November 2018 to facilitate the ... 
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          -  Juvenile Court Transformation: Intensive State Technical Assistance and a National Training Institute
January 1, 2024

Most states do not have specialized family court judges, let alone judges dedicated to delinquency cases. Even in states that do have a family court structure, juvenile justice often gets short shrift compared to child welfare in terms of court attention, resources, and improvement efforts. In addition, most states do not provide juvenile court judges ... 
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          -  Leveraging National Open Data Standards (NODS) to Strengthen Civil and Family Court Data
December 1, 2023

The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) is applying the technical and business definitions of the National Open Data Standards (NODS) to resolve enduring, and common, obstacles to collecting good civil and family court data.  Developed by the Conference of State Court Administrators and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), NODS is intended to ... 
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## SJI News & Announcements

                - News        FY 2024 2nd Quarter SJI Board Meeting    The FY 2024 2nd Quarter SJI Board meeting was held on April 8th, 2024, at the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City, Nevada. Executive Director, Jonathan Mattiello, and members of the SJI Board were joined by Justice Lidia S. Stiglich of the Nevada Supreme Court.        Read More >    
                - Announcements        Cross-sector Collaboration Site Visit Opportunity: Justice and Community Partnerships to Address Substance Use    The Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), on behalf of the State Justice Institute (SJI), is pleased to announce a peer exchange opportunity on June 13–14th, 2024, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)’s Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP). Up to six communities will be selected...        Read More >    
                - News        Rapid Response Team Releases New Guidance on Implementing AI Technologies    Courts seeking guidance on artificial intelligence (AI) now have access to two new resources, thanks to the AI Rapid Response Team (RRT). The National Center for State Courts (NCSC)'s Getting Started and Platform Considerations resources provide practical interim guidance for courts on experimenting with AI tools, understanding how AI technologies...        Read More >    
                - Announcements        Bureau of Justice Assistance Funding Opportunities for Courts Webinar    Upcoming #Webinar! Bureau of Justice Assistance Funding Opportunities for Courts. On Thursday, April 4th, 2024, at 03:00 PM EST, learn about the upcoming Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) funding opportunities that are available to state and local courts for fiscal year (FY) 2024. Among the presenters, is State Justice Institute's...        Read More >    
                - Announcements        Registration Now Open! Redesigning Legal: Cultivating an Oasis in Legal Service Deserts    Redesigning Legal with (IAALS) Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System is back on April 16th, 2024! Register today. Register here: https://iaals.du.edu/events/redesigning-legal-cultivating-oasis-legal-service-deserts        Read More >    
                - News        New Report Shows How Courts Are Improving Hybrid Hearings    In a newly released report, Hybrid Hearings Improvement Initiative, NCSC, shares examples of how courts expanded pre-pandemic virtual and hybrid proceedings or quickly adopted new technology and practices to accommodate new ways of doing business. The report notes that courts are now using remote and hybrid hearings throughout all 50 states...        Read More >    
                - News        SJI Releases FY 2025 Budget    SJI has just released the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request. To read more, download now: FY 2025 SJI Budget Request        Read More >    
                - Announcements        SJI Board of Directors Meeting    The SJI Board of Directors will be meeting on Monday, April 8, 2024, at 1:00 PM PT.  The purpose of this meeting is to consider grant applications for the 2nd quarter of FY 2024, and other business. ADDRESS:  Nevada Supreme Court Law Library, 201 South Carson Street, Room 107, Carson...        Read More >    
                - News        New Resource! National Youth Defense System Standards    The Gault Center has just released their newest resource, The National Youth Defense System Standards. The System Standards provide a metric to assess a state’s compliance with constitutional mandates that safeguard the rights of young people in the juvenile legal system, with a particular focus on the right to counsel....        Read More >    
                - News        Gavel to Gavel: Tracking State-by-State Legislative Activity    The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) is pleased to announce new Gavel to Gavel resource, which tracks state-by-state legislative activity with potential impact on state courts. In 2024, they are focusing primarily on monitoring proposed legislation related to judicial selection and to cyber and physical security of state courts. An “other” category collects...        Read More >    

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