Presentation addresses how LABs function, who are good members, fund raising, distribution of funds to participants and relationship to the CCJC Foundation.

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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3. The California
Collaborative Justice
Courts
Foundation
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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. 
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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6. 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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7. Foundation Mission
To help those supervised by California’s
collaborative justice courts become
productive community members rather than
community costs.
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8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.”

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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
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14. 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.

15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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. What matters?

20. Discussion Points
 Recruiting Board
Members
 Judicial Ethics
 To establish your
Local Advisory Board
 Getting
Focused/Setting
Goals
 Raising Funds
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21. 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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