ARMENIA
Juvenile Justice and Probation Alternatives for Women and Children
Client:  Social Policy and Development Center and UNICEF
Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Project: The Center for Court Innovation is working with Social Policy and Development Center (SPDC), supported by UNICEF, on juvenile justice, alternative sentencing and probation alternatives for women and children in Armenia.

Specifically, the Center:

• provided a two-day training program to police, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs, social service agencies and NGO’s and primary stakeholders on international standards on alternative sentencing, its applications for women and children, community sanctions, and the role of law enforcement bodies in an alternative sentencing system;
• worked with Armenian national experts to draft recommendations for the creation of a national system of juvenile justice in Armenia; and,
• met with local and international stakeholders individually to assess the current gaps in services and alternative sentences for women and children; and,

The Center continues to collaborate with SPDC and UNICEF by providing technical assistance on the creation of a national system of juvenile justice in Armenia.

Yerevan and Vanadzor Community-Based Juvenile Justice Centers
Client: Project Harmony and the Armenian Police
Location: Yerevan and Vanadzor, Armenia
Project: The Center for Court Innovation is working with Project Harmony and the Armenian Police to implement a pilot program to develop community-based juvenile justice centers in two Armenian communities. The community justice centers, located in Yerevan and Vanadzor, have adopted a U.S.-based, reparative board model and use restorative justice sentencing for first-time juvenile offenders accused of non-violent crimes. The centers support partnerships between police, juvenile service programs, parents and the community and are designed to increase public safety, reduce crime and produce better outcomes for youth. The centers are funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.  

The Center for Court Innovation became involved in the Armenian Community Juvenile Justice Centers when an Armenian delegation of police, juvenile service providers and project staff visited the Red Hook Community Justice Center seeking information on innovative juvenile justice programs while developing their pilot program.  After the site visit, the Center was engaged to provide hands-on technical assistance and training to the Community Juvenile Justice Center teams in Armenia. Specifically, the Center:

The Center continues to collaborate with Project Harmony, the Armenian police and the Criminal Juvenile Justice Center teams.

AUSTRALIA
Collingwood Neighborhood Justice Center
Client: Victoria Department of Justice
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Project: The Center assisted the Victoria Department of Justice in promoting a discussion among local stakeholders about the possibility of creating a community court in Victoria to provide greater attention to low-level crime, coordination of services, and a multi-jurisdictional approach to delivering justice. Following a week-long series of presentations and workshops conducted by Center staff in Melbourne, the Victoria Attorney General announced plans for Australia’s first community court (to be called a “Neighbourhood Justice Center”), slated to open in early 2007.
http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/
Home/The+Justice+System/Neighbourhood+Justice/

As a follow-up project, the Center’s Research Team is currently advising the planners for the Neighbourhood Justice Centre on the design of an evaluation plan.

AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan's Gender Participation Project
Client: CHF International
Location: Azerbaijan
Project: the Center assisted CHF International (http://www.chfinternational.org) in promoting participation of women in community development activities to further their mission of nurturing self governance and democracy in Azerbaijan. The Center participated in assessing southern Azerbaijan community development council activities in over 15 villages and offered recommendations and strategies to community outreach workers to increase and support the meaningful participation of women. The Center completed a short-term gender analysis of the program, conducted trainings on women's participation in community development, and assisted in the development of personal actions plans for all outreach workers along with a final report of future recommendations and linkages. 

CANADA
Vancouver Street Crime Working Group
Client: Ministry of Attorney General of British Columbia, on behalf of the Vancouver Street Crime Working Group
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Project: The Center assisted Vancouver’s Street Crime Working Group in conducting a needs assessment to better understand street crime and disorderly behavior in downtown Vancouver. The project included several visits by Center staff to Vancouver;  presentations at public meetings and sessions of the Street Crime Working Group; and strategic planning guidance throughout the term of the project to study the problem, engage local stakeholders, and develop recommended solutions.
http://www.bcjusticereview.org/working_groups/street_crime/
media_release_10_12_05.pdf

Among the Working Group’s recommendations was a community court for downtown Vancouver and, as a follow up project, the Center assisted the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General by hosting workshops in New York in 2006 on program design and overcoming anticipated operational challenges for project planners and the implementation team. The community court project in Vancouver is scheduled to open in late 2007.
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/councillors/mayor/
announcements/2006/062106.htm

ENGLAND
North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
Client: U.K. Home Office
Location: Liverpool, England
Project: The Center assisted the U.K. Home Office, Department of Constitutional Affairs and Crown Prosecution Service in planning England’s first community court. Center staff led trainings in London on conducting community needs assessments, building community support, designing a community court program and overcoming anticipated operational challenges; designed and led workshops in New York for project planners and the local implementation team; made the Center’s expertise and sample documents available to the project planners as needed; and helped the client build internal and external support for the project. The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre opened on December 9, 2004.
http://www.communityjustice.gov.uk/northliverpool/index.htm

GEORGIA
Georgia's First Community Prosecution Pilot Project
Clients: Open Society Justice Initiative and Open Society Georgia Foundation
Location: Georgia
The Center is assisting the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Open Society Georgia Foundation in promoting national criminal justice reform in Georgia, in this case through the development of a community prosecution model to increase both the Georgian prosecution service's sense of public accountability as well as its ability to effectively combat certain forms of crime and public insecurity. The Center created and delivered a series of presentations on community prosecution skills at a 2-day training in Mtskheta, Georgia (location of Georgia's first community prosecution pilot project) in November 2006. The Center is also continuing to assist OSJI, OSGF and the Office of Prosecutor-General of Georgia in the development of appropriate performance indicators and milestones for the pilot project, with an eye towards using these for national replication of the model.  
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=103459   
 
SCOTLAND
Scottish Justice Reform
Client: Justice Department, Scottish Executive
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Project: In 2005, the Center assisted the Scottish Justice Department in helping to convene a broad-based discussion in Edinburgh and Glasgow about possible reforms to the Scottish system for summary justice, following up on site visits to Center demonstration projects in New York by the Scottish Minister for Justice and the Solicitor-General.  In a follow-up project, Center staff was invited to Glasgow to make presentations on the community court model.
http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/index.asp?docID=2932

Community Justice Authorities
Client: Justice Department, Scottish Executive
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Project: In 2006, the Center facilitated over a dozen stakeholder meetings in connection with the introduction of eight Community Justice Authorities to coordinate the efforts of the justice system and community-based service providers to reduce re-offending in Scotland. The consultations gave each agency the opportunity to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach, and to offer suggestions on how the Scottish government can help make the program a success.
http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/communityjusticeauthorities/

SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA South Africa Community Prosecution Pilot Program
Client: National Prosecuting Authority
Location: Cape Town and Durban, South Africa
Project: At the request of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority and in collaboration with the Independent Projects Trust (a South African NGO), Center staff helped to design a two-day training in Cape Town to introduce the country's most senior prosecutors to principles of community prosecution and restorative justice; served as a keynote speaker for the event; and facilitated subsequent roundtable discussions with community prosecutors from South Africa's nine provinces to help identify best practices and troubleshoot challenges. As part of the engagement, Center staff also conducted a site visit to the Point Community Court and a community prosecution pilot program in Durban.

The Center continues to collaborate with the National Prosecuting Authority and the Independent Project Trust to help strengthen the South African community prosecution program.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Judicial Sensitization on Issues of Gender-Based and Domestic Violence
Client: Trinidad and Tobago Coalition against Domestic Violence
Location: Trinidad and Tobago
Project: The Center for Court Innovation partnered with the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition against Domestic Violence to implement a program on Judicial Sensitization on Issues of Gender-Based and Domestic Violence. The project’s goal was to ensure fair and equitable treatment for victims of gender-based and domestic violence in the national judicial system.  Specifically, the Center for Court Innovation provided training on gender-based and domestic violence, information on best practices in domestic violence courts and contributed to the production of a resource/training manual. The trainings focused on providing an understanding of domestic violence as well as best practices that courts, other justice system players and NGOs’ could use to handle these cases. Participants included magistrates, Clerks of the Peace, police, prosecutors, attorneys, social workers, probation officers and NGO representatives.