Tuesday | February 14, 2006
9:00–9:30 a.m.
9:30–10:00 a.m.
12:15–12:45 p.m.
12:45–1:15 p.m.

Highlights in this edition:

• Creating a Direct Calendar System That Works: Stanislaus shares the secrets of its calendaring success in family, civil and criminal law.
  
• Solving Transportation Challenges: Find out how Ventura partnered with local transit authorities to roll out a shuttle service to the new juvenile courthouse.
  
• Writing Grant Applications That Win: Get advice from the experts on how to draft applications that bring home the money for your court projects.
  
• Seeking Solutions to Complex Problems: Watch an in-depth report on how Orange is helping people with mental illness and drug problems—a Co-Occurring Disorders Court.
  
• Helping Our Colleagues in the Gulf: See how San Diego and Riverside directly helped courts swamped by Hurricane Katrina.
  
• Getting Your Court on AOC-TV: Learn how you can get the TravelCam to videotape your court’s stories and events, and then put them on CCN. Ventura’s the latest—are you next?

For more information:

• AOC Office of Governmental Affairs
  Dan Pone: 916-323-3121
  
  
• Calendar Monitors:
  Gary Whitehead, Assistant CEO, Riverside
  951-955-1706
  
  
• Ventura’s Shuttle Bus Service:
  Michael Planet, CEO
  805-654-3160
  michael.planet@mail.co.ventura.ca.us
  
  
• Interactive Declaration Form
  www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/protection/dv/formsyouneed.htm http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/protection/dv/declaration.htm

Violence Against Women Education Project
www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/cfcc/programs/description/VAWEP.htm

Penny Davis
AOC Center for Families, Children & the Courts
415-865-8815, penny.davis@jud.ca.gov

• Grants Guidelines Booklet:
  http://serranus.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/grants/index.htm
  
  Debora Morrison
  AOC Office of the General Counsel
  415-865-8713, debora.morrison@jud.ca.gov
  
  Martha Wright
  AOC Grant Development Specialist
  415-865-7649, martha.wright@jud.ca.gov
  
  
• Co-Occurring Disorders Court
  Lynn Fenton, Collaborative Courts Manager, Orange
  714-834-2956, lfenton@occourts.org
  
  
• Court News Update: http://serranus.courtinfo.ca.gov/cnu/
  
  
• CCN story suggestions/comments: leanne.kozak@jud.ca.gov

CCN, winner of the 2005 Communicator Award of Distinction and the State Information Officers Council Gold Award for Excellence in Government Communications, is the half-hour newsmagazine for California court professionals. CCN is produced by the Administrative Office of the Courts and is distributed via satellite to nearly 200 downlink sites on the second Tuesday of each month.

CCN: February 14, 2006