The Eviction Diversion Initiative, which supports tenants at risk of losing their homes, is expanding to more housing courts across the city and state.
The Center and Columbia University Offer Postdoctoral Fellowship
This postdoctoral fellowship will focus primarily on forensic assessment with an opportunity to provide psychotherapy to people returning from incarceration.
National training on community courts – May 7-9, 2018 in Birmingham, Alabama
Please join us in Birmingham, Alabama, May 7-9, to discuss and learn more about how local justice systems can work with communities to increase public safety.
Combating the Contagion of Violence: Learning from the Minority Youth Violence Prevention Program
Representatives from the nine sites participating in the federal Minority Youth Violence Prevention initiative gathered in Savannah, Georgia to share accomplishments, learn from common challenges, and plan for how best to carry the work forward.
Justice Innovation in Times of Change: New Challenges, New Opportunities
The Center for Court Innovation, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Quinnipiac University School of Law, hosted Justice Innovation in Times of Change: New Challenges, New Opportunities, a one-day conference in September 2016, providing an opportunity for practitioners from both inside and outside the justice system to learn about a range of topics related to chronic lower-level offending.
Community Justice 2016: The International Conference of Community Courts
In April 2016, more than 400 participants from 110 jurisdictions gathered in Chicago for a three-day meeting on how to reduce crime and incarceration while improving public trust in justice.
Effective Court Communication: Assessing the Need for Language Access Services for Limited English Proficient Litigants in Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking Cases
Ensuring meaningful access to justice for Limited English Proficient (LEP) litigants is an essential responsibility of the justice system. To gauge the status of language access services for litigants in domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking cases, the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for State Courts conducted a needs assessment of courts, government agencies, and community-based organizations in the fall of 2013. This report outlines the findings and makes recommendations for strengthening language access.
Procedural justice, and its intersections with race, policing, and justice system legitimacy, was a major theme of our summit on criminal justice challenges and innovative reform efforts.
The Belmont Revitalization Project: Reimagining an Avenue
The Belmont Revitalization Project is one of many initiatives being led by the Brownsville Community Justice Center, which seeks to transform the justice system in Brownsville, reduce crime and incarceration, and strengthen public trust in justice by providing alternatives to incarceration and creating opportunities for diversion for youth and community members who come into contact with the law.
