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Leads: Judge Peggy Walker and Judge Stephen Franzen
Explore the legal and judicial role in preventing unnecessary removal, particularly focused on infants and toddlers.For additional information, please click here.
Leads: Tom Rawlings, Judge Kevin Guidry, Kathleen Dumitrescu
Legal Representation for Children, Parents and DFCS in child deprivation cases will be measurably improved by 2011.For additional information, please click here.
Leads: Judge Michael Key, Judge Cliff Jolliff
Focus sites demonstrate leadership and experimentation through implementation of best practices and regular collaboration in their courts. Sites meet semi-annually and focus on data measures relevant to child deprivation cases.For additional information, please click here.
Lead: Senior Judge James Morris
Attorney engagement with the appellate process will increase. TPR appeal times will be reduced. For additional information, please click here.
Lead: Judge Jackson Harris
Explore the judiciary’s role in making sure children are in stable placements. Increase awareness about the importance of placement stability for children in foster care.For additional information, please click here.
The Cold Case Project begins in April 2009 and will last one year. This project is being done in full partnership and support with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services and the Georgia Office of the Child Advocate. Eleven attorneys are serving as Supreme Court of Georgia Fellows to the Cold Case Project and will review cases of children in foster care for long periods of time.
Lead: Judge Britt Hammond
Improving ICPC project is exploring what the judiciary can do to improve the ICPC process in Georgia. The project started in 2008 with an assessment of all the Georgia judges in regards to how the ICPC process was working in this state.
Lead: Judge Britt Hammond
Improving the knowledge on the law regarding notice and opportunity to be heard is part of an on-going training effort mainly because foster parents are constantly moving in and out of the child welfare system. Many drop out after adopting children from foster care or only foster for a while, so the training effort needs to be on-going, local and easy for foster parents who always need child care.
Lead: Judge Britt Hammond This project is exploring what the judiciary can do to improve the IV-E reimbursement in Georgia. Making sure the court orders have the proper language and evidence findings is the only thing the judiciary can do on this improvement item.
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