Bureau of Justice Assistance Announces Community-Based Problem-Solving Criminal Justice Initiative
In September 2005, the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice funded ten demonstration projects and one technical assistance provider under its new Community-Based Problem-Solving Criminal Justice Initiative. The Initiative aims to broaden the scope of problem-solving courts, testing their approach to wider defendant populations and applying key problem-solving principles—links to social services, rigorous judicial monitoring, aggressive community outreach—outside of the specialized court context. 

The Center for Court Innovation was named technical assistance provider for the Initiative, and will assist the ten demonstration sites in implementing their problem-solving initiatives. These grantees are: the Pima County Juvenile Court Center, Arizona; the San Diego City Attorney's Office, California; the City of Atlanta Community Court Division, Georgia; the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Bronx Community Solutions, New York; the Athens County Municipal Court, Ohio; Clackamas County, Oregon; the Fourth Circuit, South Carolina; the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, Lynchburg, Virginia; and the City of Seattle, Washington. Click on the names above to read abstracts of each winning proposal.