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Rule IV of the Rules for the Government of the Judiciary was amended by the Court, effective Jan. 1, 2007, pursuant to recommendations of the Judicial College Board of Trustees to mandate new judges’ orientation, including a mentor component and a capital case seminar. The college offered 106 courses in 2006, including new courses regarding mental illness, a continuation of the Court Management Program in collaboration with the National Center for State Courts, and educational offerings at all state judge association meetings. Case Management Section The Case Management Section provides practical and costeffective solutions for case flow and operational management concerns. Stephanie Hess was promoted to manager in October 2006 when Steve Hanson became manager of the newly created Children, Families & the Courts Section. The section provided extensive case management assistance to courts in Butler, Cuyahoga, Erie, Franklin, Mahoning and Morrow counties. A train-the-trainer program was initiated to introduce select court personnel from around the state to advance education regarding case management concepts in an effort to expand the availability of resources to courts. The procedures for collecting and managing court caseload statistics continues to become more automated with improvements in the generation of the annual report, as well as providing mayor’s courts with the ability to submit reports electronically. Work also continued on making the submission of all court reports by electronic means. The Beyond the Numbers project continued in 2006 and was transferred to the new Children, Families & the Courts Section before the end of the year. This project, designed to improve the procedures used to resolve abuse, dependency and neglect cases, included regional stakeholder meetings throughout Ohio, multiple two-day juvenile dependency docket case flow management courses, and the distribution of the Dependency Docket Bench Cards. All of this work is a direct response to the federal Child & Family Services review and, in part, was funded by a Court Improvement Program federal grant, as well as monies from Ohio’s Children’s Justice Act through the Supreme Court’s partnership with the Ohio 66
Department of Job & Family Services. The section continued to supplementally fund retired and visiting judges, including processing $3,096,426 in assignment compensation for local courts, a $325,374 (12 percent) increase over 2005. Additionally, 26 visiting judges were used on 56 cases to replace Justice Alice Robie Resnick as she neared retirement. Children, Families & the Courts Section Three years ago Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer appointed the Advisory Committee on Children, Families & the Courts to review all matters related to children and families presented before the courts and to make recommendations to the Supreme Court for any reforms necessary to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts dealing with these issues. The advisory committee experienced great success, so a separate section was developed within the Judicial & Court Services Division to support the work of the committee. This new section continued the oversight of the Beyond the Numbers project. Additionally, it proposed two major changes to claims of abuse, dependency or neglect in Ohio. First, its staff proposed redefining the acts as those of a child in need and clarifying other definitional confusion. Secondly, it proposed creating an alternative response track for Ohio children services agencies, similar to diversion processes in juvenile courts, to allow more effective access to resources for families in need. These proposals will be further discussed and tested in 2007. The Children, Families & the Courts Section, with advice from the committee, also began an extensive evaluation of the quality and quantity of legal representation available for families and children who go before Ohio courts. The section will assist local courts with traditional case management reviews and related training opportunities. In 2006, the first case management review by an outside consultant was supervised by this section and begun in Wayne County. The staff from this section manages the federal Court Improvement Program grant and the interbranch agreement with the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. Through that funding, they will partner with the Ohio Courts Network as it relates to juvenile courts and the Judicial College to offer additional training to judicial officers and court staff. Advisory Committee on Children, Families & the Courts Steve Hanson, staff liaison Hon. David A. Basinski, co-chair Hon. Craig R. Baldwin Jill Beeler Kathleen A. Clark Robert Clevenger Hon. Charlotte Coleman Eufinger Hon. Carol J. Dezso Hon. Timothy J. Grendell Melissa Graham-Hurd Hon. James M. Hughes Alexandra Hull Helen E. Jones-Kelley, co-chair Hon. Thomas R. Lipps Kathy Lopez Diane M. Palos Mark G. Rhoades Barbara Riley Michael Smalz Heather Sowald Hon. Thomas A. Swift Sara R. Vollmer 67
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