Substance Abuse

The American Indian Justice Conference (AIJC) will provide training to tribal communities to enhance their response to alcohol and drug abuse, enable them to recognize how trauma impacts drug and alcohol abuse in tribal communities, and to identify current trends and best practices for tribal justice systems to strengthen multidisciplinary approaches to healing and justice.

Counties across the country have committed to creating data-driven, systems-level plans to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in their jails. As part of these efforts, many communities are focusing on the small number of people who frequently cycle in and out of emergency rooms, shelters, crisis services, and the justice system, a population that disproportionately contributes to the high utilization of these resources.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance leadership, in collaboration with the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program team, invites you to this no-cost webinar on August 29, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. ET.

This session “drills down” into programs operated by the Tucson, Arizona Police Department’s Mental Health Support Team, including Drug Deflection, Co-responder, Peer Navigator, Crisis Intervention Training, and more. Participants will leave this session with a roadmap for starting any of all of these programs in their home jurisdiction. A historical perspective will educate attendees in the methods used to start these programs in Tucson, Arizona.

During this webinar, the presenter will discuss:

Through this instruction, participants examine the risks to drug endangered children, how to identify these risks, the benefits and need for early intervention and the need for a collaborative response. During this training, participants learn the steps to establishing a formal drug endangered children alliance, including developing protocols and MOU’s to sustain on-going efforts.

Join the National Drug Court Resource Center at American University’s (AU) Justice Programs Office (JPO) for the webinar “

Wisconsin Judicare, Inc. is a non-profit law firm and is the civil legal service provider for Wisconsin's northern 33 counties and 11 federally recognized Indian tribes. Wisconsin Judicare, Inc. is holding a training conference at Lac Du Flambeau, WI on November 7-8, 2017 and requested that Mick Mollica provide training on the opioid issue in Indian Country. The audience will include tribal courts, tribal judges and tribal law enforcement. They anticipate at least 75 attendees with representatives from about 16 Upper Midwest Indian tribes.

The 2017 National Forum on Criminal Justice: is a true partnership among policymakers, practitioners, researchers and people in the private sector who are dedicated to the ideal of equal justice for all. This conference showcases programs, research and technologies that help justice practitioners and decision makers in states, local communities and tribal nations address pressing public safety issues.

The use and abuse of alcohol among American Indian & Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth is complex and has propagated into a major public health concern across Indian Country. Prevention of underage drinking requires strategies that are developed within the appropriate contexts of the historical, cultural, and social demographic factors of alcohol abuse and other deeply rooted related problems in AI/AN communities.

This webinar examines prevention and intervention best practices in providing tribal youth a safe space and tools to:

The American Indian Justice Conference offers tribes across the nation an opportunity to learn strategies to enhance tribal justice systems while providing essential information on court development, drug and alcohol abuse, probation and parole, SORNA Implementation, and other relevant topics. Join other tribal community justice professionals, practitioners and technical assistance providers to address multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional approaches to the development of justice programs. There is no fee to attend the conference.