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Our Mission
To enhance public safety, reduce recidivism and promote rehabilitation through the expansion, development, improvement, and promotion of adult and juvenile community corrections. This is accomplished by bringing together judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys pretrial/probation officers, law enforcement, corrections officials, treatment providers, victims' representatives and other interested parties to work toward common goals of successful community intervention for offenders.
Our Goals
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Provide a forum to define common goals and interests in adult and juvenile community corrections and serve as a clearinghouse of community corrections information for members.
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Educate judges, prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, other community corrections practitioners, the media, and the general public about the availability, benefits, and role of community corrections in the criminal justice continuum.
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Develop and implement practitioner and stakeholder (public education) programs and provide training in support of community interventions for adult and juvenile offenders.
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Educate government entities about the need for adequate funding by gathering and presenting reliable information regarding needs, costs, and benefits, and contribute to the development and implementation of public policy in support of community corrections.
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Promote continuity in the work of local Community Corrections Planning Boards and enhance community corrections programs through identification and implementation of best practices in community corrections.
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Identify and study effective adult and juvenile treatment programs and address issues relevant to the adult and juvenile treatment communities.
Trustee Organizations
- Adult Specialty Docket
- Association of Municipal/County Judges of Ohio
- Buckeye State Sheriff’s Association - 2 trustees
- CorJus, Inc.
- Corporation for Supportive Housing
- County Commissioners' Association
- Juvenile Justice Coalition
- Juvenile Specialty Docket
- National Youth Advocate Programs
- Office of the Ohio Public Defender
- Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police
- Ohio Association of Court Administrators
- Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Ohio Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
- Ohio Association of Pretrial Services Agencies
- Ohio Attorney General’s Office
- Ohio Chief Probation Officers Association
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- Ohio Common Pleas Judges Association
- Ohio Community Corrections Association
- Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services
- Ohio Department of Job & Family Services
- Ohio Department of Mental Health
- Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
- Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
- Ohio Department of Youth Services
- Ohio Judicial Conference
- Ohio Municipal League
- Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services
- Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association
- Ohio TASC Associations
- Ohio Victim Witness Association
- The Supreme Court of Ohio
- US District Courts of Northern Ohio
- US Pretrial and Probation
- Voices for Ohio's Children
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Legislative Committee:
The Legislative Committee of the Board of Trustees composed of at least three (3) Trustees appointed by the President of the Corporation. The Legislative Committee shall study legislative Bills, resolutions and matters relevant to advocacy, development and implementation of public policy related to community corrections and make recommendations to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, the Congress of the United Stated and Policy Makers upon approval of the board. The committee shall report to the Board of Trustees on such of the proposed legislation as may be considered of interest to the Corporation.
2010 Chairpersons: Corey Schaal – Sara Andrews and Phil Nunes
Newsletter Committee:
There shall be a Newsletter Committee of the Board of Trustees composed of at least three (3) Trustees appointed by the President of the Corporation. The Newsletter Committee shall be responsible for the creation of a newsletter to be periodically distributed to the associated of the Corporation.
2010 Chairpersons: Phil Nunes, - Kristina Hawk and Gayle Dittmer
Public Education Committee
There shall be a Public Education Committee of the Board of Trustees composed of at least three (3) Trustees appointed by the President of the Corporation. The Public Education Committee shall be responsible for planning, supervising and implementing an annual community corrections conference to be held each fall and shall be responsible for educating judges, prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, media and the general public as to the availability and benefits of community corrections.
2010 Public Education Chairperson: Anne Connell Freund
Associateship Committee:
There shall be an Associateship Committee of the Board of Trustees composed of at least three (3) appointed by the Corporation. The Associateship Committee shall be responsible for encouraging the orderly growth of the number of associates of the Corporation, reviewing applications to become an associate in the Corporation and making recommendations regarding such applications to become an associate in the Corporation to the Board of Trustees. This committee will also serve as the Nominating Committee who shall nominate for each annual or other meeting of the Board, in connection with the election of any open or expiring Trustees and officers of the Corporation.
2010 Committee Chairperson: Justice Evelyn Stratton
Juvenile Community Corrections Committee:
Adult Community Corrections Committee:
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