I am writing today to ask you to help the California Collaborative Justice Courts (CCJC) Foundation in our efforts to help those supervised by California’s collaborative justice courts become productive community members rather than a community cost. These individuals include children, juveniles, adult felons, the mentally ill, homeless folks, veterans and parents whose children have been removed because of their substance abuse. California has about 50 collaborative justice courts with about 20,000 participants who are connected to approximately 60,000 children. The CCJC Foundation firmly believes that when one person rises out of a life of drugs and crime, we are …