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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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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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

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.

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 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.”

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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Begin by determining clearly how much is

to be raised

Judicial ethical position and participation is

critical

Committee Structure

Be Flexible

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.

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 Funds

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Contact Information

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California Collaborative

Justice Courts FoundationDianne Marshall

E-Mail: donorservices@ccjcfoundation.org

Website: www.ccjcfoundation.org

Children and Family FuturesPhil Breitenbucher, MSW, Program Director

Phone: (866) 493 – 2758

E-Mail: pbreitenbucher@cffutures.org