Category: Accountability and transparency
Training on custody and domestic violence, trauma, empathy, and other topics (Multnomah)
One challenge identified by Multnomah County was to improve the capacity of the court and court-related professionals to make informed recommendations and decisions regarding parenting time and custody... Read More
Self-represented litigants: Navigator, videos, and resources (Multnomah)
A primary challenge identified during the planning phase of the project was that survivors lacked the information needed to make informed choices and lacked necessary support to seek... Read More
Survey and focus groups (Multnomah)
The court gathered information from survivors and professionals to identify needs and gaps that should be addressed by the project. Surveys and roundtables were used to inform the... Read More
Surveys and roundtables (Hennepin)
Challenges identified by the project team included a lack of accurate identification of domestic violence by family court practitioners and survivors’ lack of understanding and information regarding family... Read More
Self-represented litigant info on protection orders and child custody (Hennepin)
Most litigants in family court, in Hennepin County as in the rest of the country, do not have lawyers and instead represent themselves. The team identified litigants’ lack... Read More
Comprehensive baseline data (Delaware)
The Delaware team decided to gather as much information as possible about the court’s current operations, to determine where changes were most needed and how best to improve... Read More
Court access for Native Americans (Hennepin)
Native Americans experience domestic violence at higher rates than any other group in the United States, yet the Hennepin County team found that very few accessed the relief... Read More