OJJDP FY 2015 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform - Expansion Plan

OJJDP's Juvenile Justice System Improvement Grants program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that provide programs and services critical to the mission of OJJDP, and organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program will be authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court of Ohio was one of five states to receive competitive funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Prevention in FY 2014 under the Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Program (SSRP). The purpose of the award is to plan for expanding the scale and scope of family dependency courts, and promote the use of effective drug court practices into child welfare systems inundated with parental substance use disorders. The Supreme Court of Ohio proposes to: hire a full-time Analyst for the two year period to manage and oversee SSRP activities; convene an executive committee of the SSRP that will consist of the Supreme Court Administrative Director and the Directors of Jobs and Family Services, Medicaid and Mental Health and Addiction Services to oversee the SSRP cross-system work of the child welfare, court and treatment systems; expand the number of Family Dependency Treatment Courts by providing court subsidies and Court Training Curriculum to support the new dockets developed from the 2015 Ohio Judicial Symposium on Addiction and Child Welfare; provide technical assistance for demonstration counties that agree to be early adopters of a common screening tool for substance use disorders, data integration and rapid cycle testing of workgroup developed strategies; and conduct a kick-off symposium for counties selected to pilot SSRP practices.
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