Hunter Hurst IV, Gregory Halemba

This document, published in October 2002 by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, offers the final report of the Allegheny County Juvenile Court Hearing Officers Project. According to the authors' introduction, 'Since 1998, a large infusion of judicial resources have helped the Allegheny County Juvenile Court gradually gain control of its dependency workload - to the extent the juvenile court currently sets some precedents for other urban courts in Pennsylvania to follow. This …

Hunter Hurst IV, Gregory Halemba

This is a brief look at the operation of CMIS (Case Management Information System), an automated dependency case tracking system developed for Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA).

Gregory Halemba, Gene Siegel, Rachael Dunn, Susanna Zawacki

Arizona juvenile courts have taken a series of steps over the past five years to improve the quality of timeliness of court proceedings in child abuse and neglect matters. These efforts encompass both procedural reforms to front-load the early hearing process as well as reforms that require a clearly demarcated permanency hearing and permanency determination process. A comparative analysis of the impact of these changes in four selected counties reveals that child abuse …

Gregory Halemba

This report documents impressions and recommendations from a two-day site technical assistance visit by the National Center for Juvenile Justice to the Douglas County (Omaha, Nebraska) Separate Juvenile Court. The purpose of this visit was to provide technical assistance in four areas including caseload management; generation of caseload statistics; identification of other potential information system enhancements; and assistance in developing job specifications for a new court administrator.

Hunter Hurst IV, Gregory Halemba

This user manual, developed by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, explains how to use a dependency and neglect case tracking system developed for the Douglas County (Omaha, Nebraska) Separate Juvenile Court, called JCATS.

Patrick Griffin, Gregory Halemba

This publication guides Ohio juvenile courts in making changes in their handling of cases in order to comply with the mandates of the Federal Title IV-E Foster Care program.

Gregory Halemba

Published in 2003 by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, this report recommends a list of data elements that juvenile and family courts should use to inventory, track and monitor neglect, abuse and dependency cases. Each category provides the data elements, comments or issues to consider, and sample values for designing a case tracking system. The categories include: case identifiers, child/family demographics, addresses, interested parties, petition data, Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), motions, appeals, …

Gregory Halemba, Gene Siegel, Rachael Lord, Susanna Zawacki

This paper highlights promising court-based practices and programs that have the potential to address the difficult challenges posed by dual jurisdiction cases. It is an initial effort to present what juvenile courts are currently doing or what juvenile courts can do to improve coordination of dual jurisdiction matters.

Gregory Halemba

This report discusses Ohio's juvenile courts' need to improve their tracking tools for dependency matters/caseloads. The article also touches on why it can be expensive or difficult for juvenile courts to modify automated systems that are already in place, and to develop new programs that can better track dependency cases.This bulletin is a quarterly publication that refers to a constellation of activities jointly administered by the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Ohio Department of …

Gregory Halemba

This report on an assessment of Nebraska juvenile court case management makes recommendations to improve tracking of juvenile matters, with special emphasis on abuse, neglect, and dependency cases, and consistent with federal and state guidelines for timely case processing. The author visited the State Court Administrators Office and met with the Information Management Services Department.