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Essential Components
Fundamentals and Foundations for Court Leaders
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[Date(s)]
[Educational Program or Sponsor][Faculty]
1.5 Hour Toolbox
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Exercise 1 - optional warm-up exercise
What programs and services support the work of the judges in your court?
What do you expect these programs and services to accomplish?
How do you know whether the programs and services are accomplishing what is intended?
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Purposes and
Responsibilities of Courts
Leadership
Visioning and Strategic Planning
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Court Community Communication
Resources, Budget and
Finance
Human Resources
Management
Education, Training and Development
Information Technology Management
Caseflow Management
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1. Overview of the Essential Components Core Competency
2. Roles and Purposes
3. Characteristics of Programs and Services4. Oversight and Evaluation
Workshop Overview and Agenda
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Examples of programs and services:- Records management
- Pretrial services
- Problem solving court
- Interpreters
- Self-help program
- Jury management
- Probation
- Collections
- Facilities
What are Essential Components?
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They can exist at any stage of case processing:
- Case preparation
- Adjudication
- Enforcement/post adjudication
- During all stages of a case
What are Essential Components?
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WHAT HAPPENS IF ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS ARE RUN WELL? - Litigants are better prepared - Litigants understand the process and what
they can reasonably expect - Litigants are more in control of the
outcome - Faster pace of litigation - Lower cost of litigation - Greater public trust and confidence
Why Is This Important?
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WHAT HAPPENS IF ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS ARE NOT RUN WELL?
- Cases are delayed or take longer- Proceedings are continued- Litigation costs more- Litigants and the public are frustrated- Lower public trust and confidence
Why Is This Important?
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ROLES AND PURPOSES
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ALIGNMENT OF ROLES AND PURPOSES
The operations of a programor service should:
Be consistent with the purposes and role of the judiciary and your court
Strengthen the rule of law, judicial independence, and judicial accountability
Promote equal protection, due process, and fairness
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ALIGNMENT OF MISSION AND VISION
What is the objective of providing these services? What outcomes do you want?
Is there alignment with mission and vision of the judiciary and your court?
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Exercise 2
What examples of programs and services can you provide where:
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The program or services activities WERE NOT aligned with the role and purposes of the court?
The program or services activities WERE aligned with the role and purposes of the court?
How did the alignment, or lack of alignment, impact the effectiveness of the program or service and of the court?
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Characteristics of Programs and ServicesCharacteristics of Programs and Services 22
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PROGRAM DESIGN AND OPERATION
Programs and services needed Service delivery models and alternatives Funding and budgeting
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PROGRAMS AND SERVICES NEEDED
What programs and services are needed?
What program or service do you need? What will the scope of the service be? To whom will you provide the service?
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SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND ALTERNATIVES
How will you provide the services? Service delivery models Front door/access/referral process
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BUDGET REQUESTS AND EXPENDITURES Are budget requests and expenditures:
Consistent with purpose, mission, and desired outcomes?
Consistent internally and over time?
Are revenues appropriate and collected? Do facilities, equipment, and IT services
efficiently and effectively supports staff?
Characteristics of Programs and ServicesCharacteristics of Programs and Services 22
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Oversight and EvaluationOversight and Evaluation 33
Essential ComponentsOVERSIGHT AND EVALUATION
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Oversight and EvaluationOversight and Evaluation 33
PERFORMANCE MEASURESAND EVALUATION
To whom are you accountable?
For what information?
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Oversight and EvaluationOversight and Evaluation 33
MONITORING MECHANISMS
Monitoring and feedback How often? What? (report contents)
Response to non-performance
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Discussion and Feedback
Based on what you heard today:
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What is one thing you will change when you get to work next Monday?
What will you do differently from now on at work?
What is one thing you need to learn how to do, or do better?
What is one relationship you need to build, or repair, to improve the success or your programs and services?