San Bernardino

• Date: 01 March 1963
• Author: ROBERT REEVES
• Published date: 01 March 1963
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.174-1617.1963.tb00953.x

ROBERT REEVES

-

Conciliation

Counselor

“In

reply to your letter concerning a

proposed means of cross-communication among

conciliation courts,

I

am delighted with the

idea! Your letter was shared with Stewart

Smith, Chief Probation Officer, and the Hon-

orable John

P.

Knauf, Judge of the Superior

Court, both of whom expressed interest and

approval.

Please feel free to quote

my

approval

of the bulletin as well as the proposed title,

‘

California Conciliation Courts Bulletin.

’

At this point of our embryonic develop-

ment

we

are interested in how other concilia-

tion courts are set

up.

For example:

how

are

the other courts staffed; are they attached to

another department or are they operating inde-

pendently and how is it working out; what type

of statistics are kept; what method of screen-

ing is used;

is

Superior Court Rule

No.

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in

effect in the respective courts; we are consid-

ering the preparabion of an Annual Report

-

do

others make such a report; what is a definition

of reconciliation in each county? These are a

few of the items we are presently concerned

with which probably fall under common

problems.’

”

Biographical

-

BOB

REEVES

“For the past year

I

have been the

Conciliation Counselor for San Bernardino

County. Professional counseling experience

for the previous five years has included fam-

ily counseling

in

a recognized family service

agency in Illinois and Intake Worker for the

Foster Home Placement Unit of the Child

Welfare Services Division of San Bernardino

County.

A

native of Illinois,

I

graduated from

the University

of

Illinois with

a

major in

Psychology.

I

did graduate work at the School

of Social Work, University of Illinois.

I

reside

in San Bemardino with

my

wife and two

chi

Id

ren

.

”

Com

mu

ni

ty

The San Bernardino Conciliation Court

serves a geographical area of

20,157

square

miles. The general economic status of the

population appears

to

range from the upper-

upper” to the “lower-iower” classes mode

up

of Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, and Jewish

religions. The community appears to be both

rural and urban in the process of urbanization.

LL

A

small sample from the first six

months of operation suggests we are serving a

“middle income,” Protestant, Anglo group,

(

an

80%

majority group) and a

20%

minority

group consisting of Spanish, Negro and mixed,

in that order.

The county population

in

1960

was

503,591

and

is expected to reach

753,500

in

1970.

This increase may be geared to a manu-

facturing boom and space programs in which

both military and private industry are concerned.

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