The document discusses the California Collaborative Justice Courts Foundation (CCJC Foundation), which provides grants to help participants in collaborative justice courts complete program requirements. The CCJC Foundation was founded in 2009 to assist local communities in meeting the unique needs of people in collaborative court programs. It aims to help these individuals become productive community members rather than costs. The document outlines the foundation's history and mission, provides examples of how local advisory boards have helped participants with urgent needs like utilities and work uniforms, and discusses strategies for establishing a local advisory board and fundraising efforts.
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veterans. Another feature is our Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, Mike Lodge, a Coast Guard veteran who volunteers his time providing legal assistance to homeless and low-income
veterans with disabilities.
Also, you’ll learn about the impact our community organizer Bilal Mustafa, an Army veteran who organizes recreational activities for our residents. You’ll also see photos from the meals our wonderful corporate volunteers provide.
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1. The California Dianne Marshall,
Collaborative Founder and President,
Board of Directors,
Justice Courts California Collaborative Justice Courts
Foundation
Foundation:
What Matters?
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2. 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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4. 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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5. The CCJC Foundation exists
To assist local communities
in meeting unique, unfunded material needs of
people striving
to satisfy program requirements and
successfully complete their collaborative court
program.
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6. Foundation Mission
To help those supervised by California’s
collaborative justice courts become
productive community members rather than
community costs.
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7. A community of people who care
The people in these programs have experienced great
neglect and disregard.
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 they provide both
accountability and compassion.
CCJC Foundation Local Advisory Boards provide one
more player to strengthen that combination.
8. Utilities to be shut off
This 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.
9. Request for Work Uniform
Request 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.”
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Begin by determining clearly how much is
to be raised
Judicial ethical position and participation is
critical
Committee Structure
Be Flexible
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13. Matching Grant Opportunity
Thanks to Children and Family Futures, Inc., a $500 matching
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.
Thanks to OraSure Technologies, the first 2 local jurisdictions with
an Adult Drug Court to establish a Local Advisory Board and raise
$500 will receive a matching grant.
14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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.
19. Discussion Points
Recruiting Board
Members
Judicial Ethics
To establish your
Local Advisory Board
Getting
Focused/Setting
Goals
Raising Funds
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20. Contact Information
California Collaborative
Justice Courts Foundation
Dianne Marshall
E-Mail: donorservices@ccjcfoundation.org
Website: www.ccjcfoundation.org
Children and Family Futures
Phil Breitenbucher, MSW, Program Director
Phone: (866) 493 – 2758
E-Mail: pbreitenbucher@cffutures.org
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