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The ABA seeks to update the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. The ABA Ten Principles are the most influential statement on public defense today:

• States and nations build and improve defender systems using the Principles.

• The Principles guide U.S.D.O.J. public defense grant making.

• The United Nations modeled global standards on the Principles.

As Attorney General Eric Holder has said, the Ten Principles give “shape to our aspirations” and “quite literally set the standard, and developed a framework, for progress.”

The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPPS) is interested in technical assistance for leadership standards in law enforcement, specifically, leadership standards as they relate to the development and maintenance of leadership standards for mid-level managers.

Anti-terrorism awareness training for state, local, and tribal law enforcement.

BJA NTTAC received the request and shared the assessment form with Tim Jeffries of BJA. Tim suggested referring this request to American University, one of BJA's Drug Court providers. BJA NTTAC facilitated the referral to American University.

Protect United States of America.

Michael Rempel presented on lessons learned from drug courts and implications for prosecutorial practices to an audience of black prosecutors interested in socially and racially just prosecutorial policymaking.

Amanda Berman and Mile Rempel gave a presentation entitled "Is Fair Treatment an Evidence-Based Practice? How to Measure the Presence and Effects of Procedural Justice," to an audience of approximately 75.

Julius Lang, Mike Rempel and Katie Crank participated in a three hour skills building workshop entitled “Other Problem-Solving Courts: Engaging the Community and Helping Victims,” with an audience of approximately 100.

Carol Fisler, Josy Hahn, and Sky Davis of the NYS Office of Court Administration gave a presentation entitled “A Dozen Year, Two Dozen Courts: Lessons from New York’s Mental Health Courts” to an audience of approximately 150 judges, court coordinators and administrators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, case managers, treatment professionals, probation officers, and researchers.

At the National Association of Drug Court Professionals National Training Conference on July 28th, 2015, Carol Fisler gave a presentation with Norma Jaeger of the Idaho Supreme Court entitled “From Compliance to Alliance: Using Principles of Recovery, Trauma-Informed Care and Procedural Justice to Improve Outcomes in Co-Occurring Disorder Cases,” to an audience of approximately 100 judges, court coordinators and administrators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, case managers, treatment professionals, and probation officers.