Juvenile Court Improvement Program

JCIP has a vision and 3 goals:

VISION: Raising the Profile and Priority of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in Oregon

GOALS:

• Increase the quality of dependency court hearings
• Improve the system response to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in foster care
• Improve judicial practices and leadership in juvenile dependency cases

To those ends, JCIP

• designs and delivers education and training to juvenile court judges and justice system partners
• develops and advocates for legislation
• publishes the Juvenile Court Dependency Benchbook, an electronic reference book for judges, court staff, and juvenile justice system professionals
• creates and maintains Model Court Forms for judges, referees, and court staff

Oregon’s Juvenile Court Improvement Program (JCIP) convenes its Advisory Committee on a quarterly basis to address the activities and projects that are coordinated with the program funds. The Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court appoints the members of the JCIP Advisory Committee. The JCIP Advisory Committee regularly reviews data regarding hearing timeliness, ICWA compliance and child welfare outcome data. In addition, the Advisory Committee reviews and revises JCIP goals, plans trainings and educational programs and provides feedback and participation in JCIP projects.

The JCIP Advisory Committee members are comprised of Circuit Court Judges from across Oregon, Tribal Representatives, representatives from the Department of Human Services (DHS) Child Welfare Programs, CASA, the Citizen Review Board, the Office of Public Defense Services, District Attorney Offices, the Governor’s Advocacy Office, as well as a foster parent and a foster youth.

Links to Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes and Materials (by date):

Strategic Plan

March 13, 2023

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  

December 12, 2022

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  

September 12, 2022

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 22Q2
  
• Statewide Statistice 21YE
  

June 13, 2022

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 22Q1
  
• Ensuring Justice Summit--Report to Advisory Committee
  

March 14, 2022

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 21Q4
  

December 13, 2021

• Agenda 
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 21Q3
  
• 2021 1202 JCIP Funding Request Memo to Advisory Committee
  
• 2021 1213 HOS memo to JCIP AC re Protective Custody Orders
  
• Resource Parent Engagement at Dependency Hearings
  
• Eyes Q. 4
  
• Eyes Q. 12
  
• MCS Q. 5
  

September 13, 2021

• Agenda
  
• Minutes 
  
• Adoptions 21Q2
  
• 2021 Through the Eyes of a Child Conference Evaluation
  
• 2021 Model Courts Summit on Child Abuse and Neglect Evaluations
• Shoulder To Shoulder JCIP Request 2021
• JCIP Supplemental COVID funds summary
  
• Legislative Update Presentation Final
  

June 14, 2021

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 21Q1
  

March 8, 2021

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Adoptions 21Q4
  
• Adoptions 10-01-19 through 9-30-20
  
• 2020 Juvenile Court Stats
  

December 14, 2020

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Statewide Statistics 3rd Qtr 2020
  
• Adoption Statistics 3rd Qtr 2020
  
• Adoption Statistics 10.1.19-9.30.20
• Family Dependency Court Treatment Grant Overview
  
• Oregon's Family First Prevention Plan
  

September 14, 2020

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• 2020 Through the Eyes of a Child Evaluation
• 2020 Model Court Summit Evaluation
  
• Statewide Statistics 2nd Qtr 2020
• Adoption Statistics 2nd Qtr 2020 
  

June 8, 2020

• Agenda
  
• Minutes
  
• Statewide Statistics 1st Qtr 2020
• Adoption Statistics 1st Qtr 2020

March 9, 2020

• Agenda
  
• Minutes 
  
• Statewide Statistics 4th Quarter 2019
  
• Statewide Statistics 2019 Year End
  
• Statewide Reasonable Efforts Data Collection Results
  
• Adoptions
  
• Assignment of Case Numbers in Juvenile Dependency Cases
  
• Educational Stability for Oregon;s Foster Care Students - presented by Oregon DOE
  
• QRTP Assessment - presented by DHS
  

December 9, 2019

• Agenda
  
• Minutes from December 9, 2019
  
• Adoptions 
  
• 2019 3rd Qtr Statistics
  
• Through the Eyes of A Child
  
• Survey of the Child Welfare System
  
• National Judicial Leadership Summit
  

September 9, 2019

• Agenda
• Minutes from June 10, 2019
  
• 2019 Through the Eyes of a Child Evaluation Results
• 2019 Model Court Summit Evaluation Results
• Adoptions
• 2019 2nd Qtr Statistics
  

June 10, 2019    

• Agenda
• Minutes from March 11, 2019
• JCIP JLTA Request for Funding
• JLTA Draft Budget
  
• 2019 JCIP Supplement
• 2019 1st Qtr Statistics
• Adoptions
• JCIP Self Assessment
• Shoulder to Shoulder Grant Request
• JCIP Strategic Plan Updated

March 11, 2019    

• Agenda
• Minutes from December 12, 2018  
• JCIP Advisory Committee Appointment
• Oregon DCM Process Evaluation Report
• 2018 Shoulder to Shoulder Outcomes
• JCIP 2018 Year-End Data Summary
• JCIP 2018 4th Quarter Data Summary

December 10, 2018

• Agenda
• Minutes from March 12, 2018 Advisory Meeting
• Through the Eyes of a Child 2018 Draft Agenda
• Model Court Summit 2018 Draft Agenda
• Quarterly Statistical Reports
• Adoption Finalization Project
• JCIP Strategic Plan, FY2017-2021 (Draft - 2018)
• JCIP Strategic Plan Summary 2018 Draft
• JCIP Strategic Plan & Self-Assessment
• Shoulder to Shoulder Mini Grant Request
  
• Adoptions
  
• 2018 Q1 Statistics
  

• Agenda
• Minutes from December 11, 2017 Advisory Meeting
• Through the Eyes of a Child 2018 Draft Agenda
• JCIP 2017 Q4 Statistical Reports
• JCIP 2017 Year-end Statistical Reports
• JCIP Adoption Finalization Statistics
• Juvenile Judicial Allocation, Stable Assignment, Rotation, and Tenure Best Practices Recommendations
• Statewide Summary of Court Assessment
• Budget Note Recommendations

December 11, 2017

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 11, 2017 Advisory Meeting
• Through the Eyes of a Child 2018 Ideas
• Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Oregon's Juvenile Dependency System Survey Results

September 11, 2017

• Agenda
• Minutes from June 12, 2017 Advisory Meeting
• 2017 Through the Eyes of a Child Conference Evaluation Summary
• 2017 Model Court Summit Evaluation Summary
• JCIP 2017 Q2 Statistical Reports
• Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Our Juvenile Dependency System Survey Draft

June 12, 2017

• Agenda
• Minutes from March 13, 2017 Advisory Meeting
• Through the Eyes of a Child 2017 Draft Agenda
• 2017 Model Court Summit Draft Agenda
• Shelter Protocol
• JCIP 2017 Q1 Statistical Reports
• JCIP Strategic Plan Summary
• JCIP Strategic Plan, FY2017-2021
• Oregon CIP and Agency Joint Project Work

March 13, 2017

• Agenda
• Minutes from December 12, 2016 Advisory Meeting
• RDC-DCM Pilot
• RDC Longstayers Report
• RDC Oregon Strategies
• JELI Spring Convening Agenda Draft
• 2017 Through the Eyes of a Child & Model Court Summit Draft Agendas
• JCIP 2016 Year-end and Q4 Statistical Report
• Proposed Memo Regarding Juvenile Resources
• Educational Requirements for Juvenile Court Judges
• SB222 Voluntary Implementation Workgroup of the Oregon Task Force on Dependency Representation
• Concurrent Planning Checklist
• JCIP Activities March 2017
• Shoulder to Shoulder Notes