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Court
Community Communication Community
Outreach
Curriculum
Guideline Three
Court
leaders must plan, create, develop, and implement effective and affordable
community outreach and establish and maintain a free flow of information
between the court and the public. Court
leaders not only educate and inform the public, they learn from and
improve the court through community outreach.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
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Knowledge
of the Trial Court Performance Standards, particularly those
that relate to Access to Justice and Public Trust and Confidence;
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Knowledge
of the many communities served by the court, their perceptions of the
court, and their needs;
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Knowledge
of successful community outreach in other courts;
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Ability
to assess a court’s need for diverse community outreach, the
resources that are available and needed for outreach, and how to
deploy available and needed resources;
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Ability
to bring together key people from diverse backgrounds to assist the
court in a planning process designed to inform and improve the court
and the justice system;
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Ability
to bring together judges, other court officials, and particular
communities and neighborhoods to listen to concerns and to become
better known and more knowledgeable about the people and communities
the courts serve;
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Skill
in garnering support of the other court officials, executive and
legislative leaders, and others for community outreach;
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Skill
in overseeing development and implementation of use of the Internet
and interactive computer programs to interact and communicate with the
public;
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Ability
to think creatively in developing targeted community outreach
programming -- to update existing efforts and to develop new and
promising approaches;
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Ability
to listen, assimilate, and process community input ;
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Ability
to turn constructive input and insight into positive changes.
View
the Summary
of Court Community Communication Curriculum Guidelines or click on each of the
other five Curriculum Guidelines to see the
associated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
 Curriculum
Guidelines
Purpose
and Communication Fundamentals
Understandable
Courts Community
Outreach Public
Information The
Media and Media Relations Leadership
and Program Management
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