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At the CCJ/COSCA 2020 Annual Meeting, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators endorsed and encouraged their members to implement the following recommendations.
Read CCJ/COSCA Resolution 4: In Support of a Call to Action to Redesign Justice Processes for Families.
One of our greatest leaders in the courts, and the chair of CCJ/COSCA's FJI effort, Iowa Chief Justice Mark Cady, addressed a national audience regarding child and family cases in September 2019 saying “We need to be able to say that we did everything that we could when it was our time.” Chief Justice Cady passed away unexpectedly, just two months later. His efforts to support fairness, his dedication to children and families and his leadership within the courts will not be forgotten. In honor of Chief Justice Cady and in honor of children and families, the CCJ/COSCA Family Justice Initiative commits to do what we can in our time.
The Cady Initiative is supported by a generous grant from the State Justice Institute (SJI-19-P-021). The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the State Justice Institute, the FJI Task Force, IAALS, NCJFCJ, or the National Center for State Courts.
