2011年7月11日 星期一

County Family Court Is Known Throughout Nation

County Family Court Is Known Throughout Nation
The Chautauqua County Family Court has been working to help children and families repair their lives for many years.

Now, all that hard work has begun to pay off.

RECOGNITION

According to Family Court Judge Judith Claire, national recognition has begun to shine a spotlight on the county's Family Court.

There are many reasons for this recognition, she said.

"We were identified because of work we are doing here in the court that has been innovative and successful and has led to others approaching to partner and collaborate with us," she said. "Some of the work we have been doing with our Court Improvement project was recognized by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges," she said.

Judge Claire, meanwhile, has been invited to speak about her court and the improvement programs at many national meetings, including national recognition at a Systems of Care conference in Chicago,An other advantage of using bluecrystal these bulbs is that they can also work in very cold weather which various other lights are unable to do. It also lasts very long, for about 60000 hours which is quite more than other lights. Ill.; national recognition for the Balanced and Restorative Justice project; inquires from other departments and states nationwide and even a presentation in New York City.

PROGRAMS

Many projects and initiatives comprise the "pieces of the puzzle" for the court's delivery of services, she said.

Among these many programs that have been initiated, the "Integrating Trauma Informed Solution Focused Strategies in Family Court" pilot project has garnered the county's Family Court much recognition. According to Judge Claire, the court was chosen to participate in this program because of the previous work it had been doing. The program was initiated in February.

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"The Trauma Informed Care Initiative involves child welfare cases," she said. "Child welfare are specifically abuse, neglect and termination of parental rights cases. In a nutshell, kids who come to our court has been traumatized in the child welfare context. Therefore, the normal ways with dealing with them don't work. When you expect a person to respond in what you consider a rational manner and that person has suffered some traumatic event of seriousness in their lives, they may not react in what you consider a rational manner, and that is because they may have learned that that doesn't work."

"But if you don't understand that, and continue to treat them in the same way, you are going to continue to not be able to necessarily reach that person, and that person may not necessarily get better," Judge Claire continued. "What you are doing is following the same pattern over and over even though the pattern is not successful."

Changing that pattern is the ultimate goal of Family Court, she said.

"The goal of course, in our court is to break patterns; to help children and parents be successful, and this is where we have had a fair amount of success and it is very exciting to break a cycle of neglect or drug addiction or whatever are the problems that led to a petition being filed with the court in the first place alleging the neglect or abuse," she said.

Judge Claire said that this initiative is cross-disciplinary, as it affects everybody who works with a child welfare case. This program is occurring over two years, with training meetings and improving the function of the Family Court process.

"It is not business as usual," she said. "It is a different way of doing things. We have inquiries from throughout the nation, from people either wanting to partner with us or follow how we are doing, gauging our degree of success to decide whether they pursue similar steps in their states."

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