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ARC provides services to prevent or limit a youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system by providing appropriate interventions and coordination of community resources and supports. - ARC will serve Licking County youth up to the age of 18, and their families. - Youth and families may come to the ARC to seek assistance at 65 W. Church Street in Newark - ARC staff will assess the youth, speak to family members and other stakeholders. - ARC staff will perform necessary screens, conduct brief interventions, and connect the family with appropriate community resources.

Handles civil disputes involving money or personal property valued at $2,500.00 or less. Parties involved in the dispute may present their cases to the judge, who hears both sides and renders a judgment.

Provides hearing for small claim cases less than $6,000 and requires parties to the action to present their own cases.

Provides justice for small claims, criminal, traffic and civil cases arising within the Court’s jurisdiction (including eviction proceedings). Provides records of all cases heard and jury selection where appropriate. Any waiverable citations can also be paid on site.

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Jury Selection
Housing Courts
Court Records
Small Claims Courts
Traffic Courts
Civil State Trial Courts
Counseling and psychiatric services for adults and transitional age youth. CPST available for adults. Individual, marital, family and group counseling.

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Substance Use Disorder Day Treatment
Crisis Residential Treatment
Psychiatric Medication Services
Central Intake/Assessment for Mental Health Services
Child Sexual Exploitation Reporting
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Supported Employment
Assertive Community Treatment
Low Income/Subsidized Rental Housing
Parenting Skills Classes
Advocacy
Domestic Violence Protective/Restraining Orders
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Crime Witness Support
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Dating Abuse Hotlines
Job Finding Assistance
Drug/Alcohol Testing
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Public Guardianship/Conservatorship Programs
Family Law Courts
Gambling Disorder Counseling
Prejob Guidance
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Human Trafficking Hotlines
Group Counseling
Crime Victim Accompaniment Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Employee Assistance Programs
Human Trafficking Prevention
Community Mental Health Agencies
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Marriage and Relationships Counseling
General Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Sexual Assault Hotlines
General Counseling Services
Domestic Violence Issues
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Family Counseling
Crime Victim Notification Services
Case/Care Management
Sexual Assault Counseling
Receives and reviews all juvenile traffic violations other than parking violations but including violations such as jaywalking and those dealing with skateboards. Also handles juvenile tobacco violations. After the citation is given, a court date is set at which the juvenile will enter his/her plea. If the juvenile pleads not guilty, then a trial before a magistrate is set. Hearings can be waived in some cases.
Presides over divorces, dissolutions, legal separations, annulments, domestic violence petitions, enforcement of support orders, establishment of certain foreign support cases, and regulation of certain non-Ohio divorce decrees. The court receives, processes, and adjudicates new divorce and dissolution filings as well as pre-decree and post-decree motions and pleadings. Collaborates with the Child Support Enforcement Division to modify issues relating to child support.

Court presiding over traffic misdemeanor cases.

Offers a program as alternative to traditional legal proceedings for low-risk offenders with certain psychiatric disorders facing criminal felony charges and offers the option of particpating as an alternative to confinement in a correctional facility.

Provides probate court services such as guardianship, will and testaments, estate settlements, and marriage licenses.

Presides over divorces, dissolutions, legal separations, annulments, domestic violence petitions, and enforces support orders. Receives, processes, and adjudicates new divorce and dissolution filings as well as pre-decree and post-decree motions and pleadings. Collaborates with the Child Support Enforcement Agency to modify issues relating to child support. Provides mediation services for clients undergoing divorce proceedings.
Operates a specialized docket program that serves juveniles and actively engages their parent/guardian in services to address their substance dependence, which affects their ability to be successful.
Juvenile divisions hear cases involving persons under 18 years of age who are charged with acts that would be crimes if committed by an adult. They also hear cases involving unruly, dependent and neglected children. Juvenile courts have jurisdiction in adult cases involving paternity, child abuse, nonsupport, contributing to the delinquency of minors and the failure to send children to school.
Serves as Probate Court for Darke County. Supervises the administration of the estate of a deceased person who was a legal resident of Darke County at the time of his or her death. Administers trusts that are part of a will. Has jurisdiction over adoptions, involuntary commitment of the mentally ill, land appropriations, and name changes.
Mayor's Court, which is located in the Ontario Municipal Building, handles all misdemeanor traffic and criminal offenses.

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City/Town Clerk Offices
Traffic Courts
Community Courts
Court Records
County Clerk of the Courts Offices
Provides a Reentry Court for most offenders sentenced to prison from Richland County who return home prior to maximum expiration of sentence. Reentry offenders will come before the sentencing judge and a parole board hearing officer each month for the first twelve months home. Offers these ex-offenders opportunities to support themselves, to participate in treatment to overcome addictions and other problems, to make restitution to their victims and community, and to take their place as responsible citizens.

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Reentry Courts
Intensive Supervision of Offenders
Perry County Juvenile Court cases include unruly, delinquent, abused, dependent and neglected children, as well as cases that involve traffic offenses. Jurisdiction also includes adult paternity cases, nonsupport, visitation and custody of children whose parents are unmarried as well as child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Handles cases involving families and children such as adoption, paternity, custody and child support, dependency, neglect, and abuse, and divorce.

Offers a program specially designed to facilitate offenders' successful return to their community upon release from prison. Sets goals that provide an intense and structured level of supervision and counseling services to offenders granted a period of judicial release (early release granted by sentencing authority). Offenders must complete programming designed to change offender behavior and demonstrate measurable progress in achieving individualized goals. - Offered in conjunction with the Summit County Court of Common Pleas.
Hears and decides traffic and some criminal cases that are under the jurisdiction of the Parma Heights Mayor's Court.

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Court Records
Traffic Courts
Criminal State Trial Courts
The Marion Family Court presides over Juvenile, Domestic Relations, Probate and child support hearings.

Hears civil matters involving Administrative Appeals, foreclosures, personal injury suits, and other civil cases.

Hears and decides traffic cases and maintains court records. The Mayor and two city magistrates hear the cases.
This new program serves nonviolent, first-time drug offenders age 14-17 1/2 years of age by facilitating outpatient substance abuse treatment and probation program to address drug and alcohol addictions.
Handles foreclosure, partition, and quiet title cases. Foreclosure is an attempt by the holder of the mortgage or lien to have the property sold to satisfy the mortgage or lien. Partition involves two or more persons owning property together who cannot agree on how to sell the property. Quiet Title is when a party claims an interest in property which is allegedly invalid and negatively impacts the title of the property such as encroachments by fences or buildings. Answers general procedural questions, but does not give legal advice.