{"id":90,"date":"2020-11-23T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc20th\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-03-02T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:00:27","slug":"in-the-beginning-aba-simmit-and-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc20th\/2020\/11\/23\/in-the-beginning-aba-simmit-and-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CFCC\u2019s Beginnings<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The Fall 2020 alumni magazine features an excellent article on CFCC\u2019s history and the TCP. Download it here.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The driving force behind the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC) has been the leadership of CFCC\u2019s founder and director, Professor Barbara A. Babb. Her early recognition of the importance of approaching family law issues through a holistic lens led her to embrace the concept of unified family courts in the 1990s. She was co-chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Family Law Section\u2019s Committee on Unified Family Courts and a key consultant for a two-year ABA project establishing unified family court pilot programs in six jurisdictions including Baltimore. The success of the Baltimore project served as a model for the creation of Maryland\u2019s Family Divisions in 1998 and led to the launch of CFCC in August 2000. Around this time, Professor Babb also became interested in the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence and attended the first meeting of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence.<\/p>\n

The decade following was a heady time for family justice reform. The American Bar Association Section (ABA) of Family Law\u2019s Committee on Unified Family Courts was advocating vigorously for the creation of unified family courts nationwide, and there was keen interest among jurisdictions across the country. CFCC established itself as a leader in this movement and continues to advance the concept today.<\/p>\n

In addition, CFCC\u2019s work over the years expanded to include:<\/p>\n