Education

Check-in with Metropolitan Community College CAREERRS Project

From February 10, 2021 through March 31, 2021, NDCRC co-directors Dr. Kristen DeVall and Dr. Christina Lanier hosted office hours from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM, three days per week. Slots of 30 minutes in length were available to all recipients of the Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Survey so that respondents could pose questions about the survey process or content.

Video conference with Metropolitan Community College CAREERRS Project

Video conference with Metropolitan Community College CAREERRS Project

Video conference with Metropolitan Community College CAREERRS Project

NDCRC co-directors Kristen DeVall and Christina Lanier participated in the National Drug Court Institute's Drug Court University program, during which they met virtually with representatives from individual courts who had requested time slots. For October 14-15, 2020, the theme for DCU was evaluation of treatment court programs; assistance would have focused on courts' needs in this area.

Information on what MARJ students should "know, do, and value" upon completion of the program will be used as part of the broader course mapping Delphi process to inform new MARJ Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). The new PLOs will become the umbrella for the full MARJ program course mapping and evaluation.

Nationally, an estimated 78 percent of young people who have experienced homelessness report that they have also had at least one interaction with law enforcement, while 44 percent have spent time in a jail or detention facility. Participants will learn about ways that communities can better support young people who find themselves at the intersections of youth homelessness and juvenile justice to ensure that youth do not have unnecessary contact with the juvenile justice system and that if they do come in contact with the justice system, that they exit to safe, stable, and secure housing.

Join Justice Clearinghouse for their webinar “Youth Homelessness and Juvenile Justice: Supporting Youth Across Systems” on February 20, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Studies show 78 percent of adolescents who have suffered from homelessness have also had at least one encounter with law enforcement. Of these young adults, 44 percent have found themselves in a jail or detention center.

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: