Racial Justice Equity and Inclusion Grant

This grant application is submitted in Statewide Category. With requested funding over a three year period, the Judicial Council of California (JCC) purposes to create practical tools to identify and address equity and inclusion issues in California's collaborative courts. This project will support a longstanding JCC priority to expand access, fairness, diversity, and inclusion across California's judicial branch and the communities it serves as well as Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standard #2 Equity and Inclusion. Better assuring treatment courts can identify inequities in participation and outcomes among specific populations is a key factor in ensuring equal access. The proposed program will bring together superior courts and their local racial equity and inclusion subject matter expert partners for training events that will ultimately produce: a California specific assessment tool; a data collection and analysis plan specific to the data elements necessary to investigate outcomes by race; a California specific guide to diversion law; and a set of program resources translated into five different languages. The project's key deliverables will be designed with long term sustainability in mind, with oversight from JCC and support from the Racial Justice Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee of the Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee.