The California

Collaborative Justice Courts

Foundation:

What Matters?

Dianne Marshall,

Founder and President, Board of Directors,

California Collaborative Justice Courts Foundation

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Goals for Today

Share the story behind the CCJC Foundation

Learn how the CCJC Foundation serves

Present how an effective Local Advisory Board can impact your collaborative court outcomes

Questions and Answers

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The California Collaborative Justice

Courts Foundation

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Brief History

Founders: Dianne Marshall and Phil Breitenbucher

Based on the highly successful Mendocino County Friends of Drug Court

Incorporated: October, 2009

IRS Status Approved: October, 2010

Statewide Board of Directors

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Board of Directors  

President: Dianne Marshall, Therapeutic Courts Administrator, (ret), Mendocino County Superior Court

Secretary: Tonya Clark, Director, Collaborative Court Programs, Superior Court of CA, County of Nevada

Treasurer: Tim S. Smith, Mental Health Systems Inc., Riverside, CA

Phil Breitenbucher, Program Director, Children and Family Futures, Irvine, CA

David Stevens Hobler, J.D., LLM, Fit in Recovery, Mill Valley, CA

James O. Heiting, Trial Attorney, Managing Partner, Heiting & Irwin, Riverside County, CA

Judge Peggy Hora (ret), Superior Court of CA, County of San Mateo, Senior Judicial Fellow, National Drug Court Institute

Aminta Mickles, Consultant For Change, Independent Consultant , Contra Costa County, CA

Charles Murray, Deputy Trial Counsel, State Bar of California, Los Angeles, CA

Advisor: Judge Albert P. Dover (ret), Superior Court of CA, County of Nevada

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The CCJC Foundation exists

To assist local communities

in meeting unique, unfunded needs of

people striving

to satisfy program requirements and

successfully complete their collaborative court program.

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Foundation Mission

To help those supervised by California’s collaborative justice courts become productive community members rather than community costs.

 

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A community of people who care

You know that the people in these programs have experienced great neglect and disregard.

You know the cyclical effects of poverty…where the lack of funds makes it impossible to secure that one thing that can change the course of a life.

Collaborative courts work because of the circle of people invested in participants’ success.

CCJC Foundation Local Advisory Boards provide one more player to strengthen that circle.

Utilities to be shut offThis message came into one Local Advisory Board

the week before Christmas:

“We have a Drug Court client in desperate need of money for PG&E bill.  She will be without electricity soon and she has children. ”

Outcome: This mother was awarded the needed funds to keep her utilities on. Her Local Advisory Board supported her request because her probation officer vouched for the circumstances that led to this situation occurring and how that problem would be solved in the future.

Request for Work UniformRequest for $209.99 for work clothes (uniform)

 and shoes for her new job approved. 

Outcome: Committee felt she should invest in better shoes since she will be on her feet and  approved an extra $30 for an upgrade in the

shoe department.  (Total $239.99)

She said, “I am absolutely grateful. Without those funds, I’m not sure where I would be today.”

Seven Children!

Request for winter clothes and school clothes for seven children who she now has living with her. 

Outcome: Seven (7) gift cards for $60 each were approved to go shopping at Wal-Mart.

The “Boot Camp” of treatment programs

Recovery is hard work

Many expectations are placed on participants

Failure is what they know and may fall back on

Through the grants made by Local Advisory Boards, not large in their amount but giant in the lives of the participants, members of these Boards are rewarded by being a part of giving badly needed funds to those who are engaged in the difficult task of recovery.

Participants are so appreciative of people believing in them and providing support. 

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Recommendations & Lessons Learned

Begin by determining clearly how much is to be raised

Judicial ethical position and participation is critical

Transparency/participation of AOC

Committee Structure

Be Flexible

Matching Grant Opportunity

…. with assistance from Children and Family Futures, Inc., a $500 matching funds grant opportunity for each of the first 5 local jurisdictions with Family Dependency Drug Courts to establish a Local Advisory Board under the CCJC Foundation.

Fundraisers that Work

Local restaurants who will give you a % of an evening’s income (Guy Fieri’s Tex Wasibi, Panda Express)

Mark L, the comedian

“Community cards” from local grocery chains (e.g. Lucky’s)

Have a “rent party” to raise rent money to give to participants

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Plus a Few More Ideas

Have your local bar association sponsor a debate with your local high school debate society on the subject of therapeutic jurisprudence. Funds are raised by the teams securing

sponsors.

Create your own “a-thon”; walk, ride bicycles, jump, or Zumba!

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Planned Giving

• You know your collaborative courts have made a profound effect in many individuals lives. Include your local CCJC Foundation fund in your estate planning!

• Ask people you know who are committed to drug courts to include your local fund in their estate planning!

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What matters?75% of those who successfully complete their

collaborative court program remain arrest-free

35% - 64% of those who enter a collaborative court program successfully complete it.

Small grants awarded to participants that allow them to accomplish what our collaborative courts expect of them.

Belief and action that people can and do change for the better.

What matters?

Discussion Points

Recruiting Board Members

Judicial Ethics

To establish your Local Advisory Board

Getting Focused/Setting Goals

Raising Funds42

Contact Information

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California Collaborative Justice Courts FoundationDianne MarshallE-Mail: donorservices@ccjcfoundation.orgWebsite: www.ccjcfoundation.org

Children and Family FuturesPhil Breitenbucher, MSW, Program DirectorPhone: (866) 493 – 2758E-Mail: pbreitenbucher@cffutures.org