Sentences with phrase «justice system partners»
The justice system partnered with providers to increase compliance and motivation by offering youth an opportunity to have assault charges dismissed after successful program completion and the charges expunged after a period of 1 year without additional incidents reported (Bolton et al. 2015).
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He serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: the American College of Corporate Directors, Massachusetts General Hospital (President's Council), Boston University (Trustee Emeritus), The Boston Foundation (Director Emeritus), The Boston Center for Community and Justice (Honorary director), Wilson Center's Canada Institute (Advisory Board) and Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust (Chairman) and Partners HealthCare System, Inc..
«The Food Justice Summit is organized by GreenStar Community Projects in collaboration with community and campus partners interested in building a system of regional food sustainability that promotes health, equity, and community control of essential resources.»
«We are confident that by working closely with our partners in the criminal justice system, we will ensure that the people who come to us receive a faster, fairer service,» Ms Oatway commented.
«Over the past two and a half years, he has been a collaborative partner, open - minded and receptive to a broad range of ideas and perspectives about how to improve public safety and make the criminal justice system more fair,» he said.
The program uses all the resources we have — the schools, our county departments, the District Attorney and all of our community partners — to prevent our teens and young adults from entering the criminal justice system.
Clayton County (Georgia) Juvenile Court has a program called System of Care, which partners with local schools and law enforcement to find ways of disciplining young people while keeping them in school and out of the juvenile justice sSystem of Care, which partners with local schools and law enforcement to find ways of disciplining young people while keeping them in school and out of the juvenile justice systemsystem.
To change the disproportionality of students of color being suspended and arrested, she partnered with the police, juvenile justice system, schools, and families.
Working alongside LA County's Probation Department, Department of Mental Health, Department of Public Works and LA County Office of Education, the LA County Arts Commission began partnering with the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network (AIYN) to bring arts education to youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
In 2014, partnering with other locally based B Corp companies, Capital Pacific engaged in another NWEI course: Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability.
With the Pacific Climate Warriors, we'll join partners and allies in the Feminist and System Change blocs to march for climate justice and an end to coal.
This involves taking an ««improvement approach» that engages the user's perspective, is multi-disciplinary, experimental and recognizes that users of the [justice] system are partners in improving it.»
At another firm, which has acted for multiple defendants in SFO investigations and prosecutions, a prominent partner says: «The advent of DPAs has allowed the state to do something it has been lamentably bad at doing: to use the criminal justice system as, potentially, an effective tool in the regulation of business.
After a protracted arbitration process and final hearing — which involved two separate state court appeals — the Arbitrator, a former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the health system respondents on liability, and awarded no damages to the physician - limited partner on any of his arbitration claims.
Non-lawyers can not be partners with lawyers and judges in the justice system because they can not be part of its sub-culture.
Our partner in this effort is the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, an independent and nonpartisan research and advocacy organization which seeks to remedy systemic injustices facing vulnerable populations within our court systems.
In addition to volunteer legal assistance at the centers, the Hawaii State Judiciary has also partnered with the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Public Library System to make self - help interactive court forms software available at the Self - Help Centers and Access to Justice Rooms and public libraries across the state as well as online.
The new normal — which I believe to be largely the consequence of the increasingly loud and consistent voices of justice system users — challenges the The New Lawyer to commit to genuinely respect clients, to pay careful attention to their needs, concerns, and financial limits, and to consider them true collaborative partners.
Online dispute resolution is becoming an essential partner in justice administration just like digital court recording systems.
This report shows that the issue of timeliness in the justice system is critical for all justice partners - and for the public.
It has been developed with a range of partners both inside and outside of the justice system in an attempt to diversify participants in the access to justice conversation.
Integrated Justice Project: In the late 1990s, the Ministry of the Attorney General and a consortium of private sector partners, headed by IBM, announced the creation of the Integrated Justice Project (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worldwide.
The government's mooted tax on City law firms is just one of several options for improving the UK court system under consideration by government, senior partners in the City were told at a series of meetings with justice secretary Michael Gove earlier this week.
The initiative and its model were developed in a collaborative way (involving justice system players as well as community partners).
Last week, Clark appointed Geoff Cowper, a partner in Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver office, to lead the review, with a mandate to study «systemic changes» aimed at achieving a more efficient, timely and fair justice system.
Nathan Gorham, partner at Rusonik O'Connor Robbins Ross Gorham & Angelini LLP, agrees with Prutschi, but he adds that he thinks the legalization of marijuana could potentially lead to the decrease of violent crimes often associated with gangs and the selling of marijuana at street level — robbery, assault and even murder — although he is unsure if the potential decrease in these crimes would be enough to make a difference within the justice system.
With the support of our partners, funders and volunteers, we strive to maintain an accessible justice system for everyone.
Today, two innovative suppliers of justice technologies have announced an alternative to outdated «big box» court systems by partnering to deliver a portfolio of mission - specific court solutions.
In enhancing access to legal services and the justice system, «We will be accountable for collaboration with other partners in the justice system for specific positive change in the area of access to justice for equity - seeking groups,» he said.
Through research, MDAC and our partners have found that children with disabilities experience multiple barriers to accessing justice at all stages criminal, civil and administrative justice systems.
We receive support from public and private partners who are committed to equal justice and system reform.
The Equity & Access Office has partnered with Avalon Sexual Assault Centre to provide education sessions for lawyers that help participants recognize the signs of trauma in their clients; provide suggestions for mitigating re-traumatization from the justice system; and identify the supports and services available for sexual assault survivors in Nova Scotia.
Students are trained in established business concepts and study them with partners, including: legal aid organizations, solo practitioners, corporate legal departments, law firms, courts, and entire justice systems.
Spousal or partner assault, while not a separate offence under the Criminal Code, receives distinctly harsh treatment by the criminal justice system.
Al Safar and Partners advocates and legal consultants is also one of the very few ISO 9001:2008 quality management certified law firms in the GCC and middle east, that coupled with the law firm's deep understanding and local experience of the UAE laws and legal system we provide our international clients excellence of service maintaining a tradition of highest legal and business standards, quality of service and a continued pursuit of justice.
Seeking relief for those whose cases were denied or are already in the system, a lawsuit has been filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Ministry of Labour by labour law firm Goldblatt Partners, representing Ms Wardle, Injured Workers Consultants Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups.
«We are excited to be partnering with the NL Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Centre on this major initiative, and also look forward to working with the Government of Canada, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and stakeholders from community organizations and the justice system all across the province.»
All of the reforms that the Innocence Project and its partners advocate have been proven to increase the accuracy of the criminal justice system, often through decades of scientific research.
Our presentation will review the concept of leveraging the features of a court management system and electronic records to make business practices more efficient, as well as utilizing reports for quality control and automatically sharing information with our justice partners.
Partnering across legal, social services, medical and information providers to address the array of justice needs that people face may be the key to the early detection, diagnosis and intervention necessary to empower Alaskans to solve their problems before they find themselves in the legal system.
I won't go into the details of that workshop as it has been previously written about here, but, in short, our stakeholders (and now our partners) were interested in learning about the innovation tools they might use to help them respond to the needs of users in the family justice system.
We train our students in these concepts and study them with our partners, including: legal aid organizations, solo practitioners, corporate legal departments, law firms, courts, and entire justice systems.
Having started a legal twitter feed some months ago (www.twitter.com/prutschi), I earned a number of sideways glances from my partners as I began to blog intermittently on cases of interest within our firm along with commentary on anything that caught my eye in the broader criminal justice system.
As far as access to justice is concerned, it's important to think about a major straight jacket on innovation: funding for new IT systems has to come from partners» debt.
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You recognize the restricted range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system, and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your former partner for resolving your issues.
Within juvenile justice, family engagement occurs when the justice system respects family members as partners and facilitates their ongoing participation in decision - making regarding the youth's rehabilitation.
Collaborative Law is worth considering if some or all of the following are true for you: (a) you want a civilized, rational resolution of the issues, (b) you would like to keep open the possibility of a viable working relationship with your partner down the road, (c) you and your partner will be raising children together and you want the best working relationship possible, (d) you want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigation between parents, (e) you have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity, (f) you value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and parenting arrangements to a stranger (a judge), (g) you recognize the restricted and often unpredictable range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your spouse or partner for resolving the issues.
Shame, stigma, and fear of discrimination may prevent men who are victimized by women, and men and women who are abused by a same - sex partner, from seeking redress from the health care and criminal justice systems (Badenes - Ribera, Frias - Navarro, Bonilla - Campos, Pons - Salvador, & Monterde - i - Bort, 2015).
National AFCC partners include the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Hofstra Law School Center for Children, Families and the Law, Battered Women's Justice Project, Werner Institute for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, University of Baltimore School of Law Center for Children, Families and the Courts, Loyola University Chicago School of Law's Civitas ChildLaw Center, Resolution Systems Institute and Marquette University Law School Dispute Resolution Program.