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December 2021 | Vol. 32, No. 3

Grantee Spotlight: Court Voices Project

Twelve courts from around the country have completed a sixmonth pilot as part of LaGratta Consulting’s Court Voices

Project, where they asked both court staff and court users for

their feedback on courts’ pandemic responses. While most of

the pilot courts had little to no experience collecting feedback

from court users in the past, all were able to use tablet kiosks,

web links, and/or QR codes to solicit insights. All in, over 275

court staff and over 3,000 court users participated. A complete

project report is forthcoming in early 2022... Read more

In the News

Putting Children and Families First in Dependency Case Management and

Scheduling

The National Center for State Courts (NCSC), in partnership with the National Council of

Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), funded by State Justice Institute,

synthesized best practices in juvenile and family court and case management principles to

develop an adaptable and responsive online training curriculum. The curriculum helps

courts assess their adherence to principles of case management and... Read more

Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System: An Overview of Chatbots and Their

Underlying Technologies and Applications

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) supported the Criminal Justice Testing and

Evaluation Consortium has released a technology brief to help us better understand the

use of chatbots in criminal justice. (Chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate

conversation with human users.) Five major takeaways include... Read more

Join the National Judicial Network
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), working in partnership with

the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) on a State Justice

Institute (SJI) funded project is pleased to invite you to participate in the National Judicial

Network: Forum on Human Trafficking and Immigration in State Courts (“The Network”).

The Network is seeking judges, commissioners, magistrates, Tribal judges, and other

judicial officers to join the National Judicial Network, a peer to peer forum. The Network will

provide... Read more

Announcements

SJI Awards FY 2022

First Quarter Grants!

The SJI Board of

Directors met on

December 6th, 2021 to make

decisions on quarterly grant

applications, and approved a total of

eleven (11) new grants. To read the

full news article on the FY 2022

First Quarter awarded grants, click

here. The next deadline to

submit grant applications is

February 1st, 2022.

New Page Launched!

Come check out our

new Training &

Technical Assistance Resources for

Courts page on the Funding Toolkit.

A variety of training and technical

assistance (TTA) services are

available free of cost. Generally,

assistance involves connecting

agencies with national experts to

provide services designed to

address a specific need within the

justice system.

Apply Now! New

Eviction Diversion

Initiative (EDI) has just

been launched to help state courts

nationwide reform the way they

handle eviction cases. This initiative

will be used to transform eviction

courts into problem-solving courts

that emphasize holistic, sustainable

and community-driven solutions to

housing problems. Apply for

grants here.

Registration Now Open!

The National Center for

Juvenile Justice

(NCJJ)'s Celebration

Tour 2022 of National Conferences.

Register today for the 2022 National

Conference on Juvenile Justice.

The upcoming event will be held

March 13-16th, 2022 in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania – Home of the

National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Register here.

December is

#UniversalHumanRight

sMonth. A global

holiday that marks the

The National

Association for Court

Management (NACM)

2022 Midyear
adoption of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights by the

United Nations in 1948. This month,

and every month, our team

continues the support for equality,

justice, and dignity for all human

beings.

Conference will be taking place

February 20-22, 2022. The

upcoming midyear conference

theme is Resilience and

Reinvention: Transforming the

Future of Courts. To register now,

click here.

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

February 1, 2022.

Learn more about SJI grants and apply

today!

State Justice Institute

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Fairfax, VA 22033

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