Justice Services

4/15/24 TTA Needs Assessment meeting conducted via zoom to complete TTA Needs Assessment with St. Regis Mohawk Grantee.
In attendance, TLPI Tribal Courts Team, and TJI, Michelle Rivard Parks, and Judge Carrie Garrow, St. Regis Mohawk.

Needs Assessment: Team reviewed all of the answers on the TTA Needs Assessment and asked clarifying questions to get more information on specific needs, training, resources that would be helpful, current status of project goals, and planning. Team will get together to come up with a work plan and/or have an additional meeting to follow-up.

4/22/24 TTA Needs Assessment meeting conducted via zoom following submission by Prairie Island of TTA Needs Assessment.
In attendance, was also our project partner NAICJA: Elton Naswood, Johanna Farmer, and Mary Rodriguez ; and from Prairie Island: Deb English -Tribal Court Administrator; Cody Mattison - Contract Specialist within Grants Dept; Ben Rosaasen - Strategic Planner/Administrator.

On 4/22/24 by Zoom, a TTA Needs Assessment meeting was conducted to go over with Grantee Jemez Pueblo their TTA Needs Assessment.
In attendance, TLPI Tribal Courts Team, and Kiana Gachupin, Tribal Court Administrator (Interim)/Clerk; and Cedric Fragua, current probation officer.

Office based technical assistance to assist Sualt St. Marie tribe with navigating issues relevant to STCJ implementation

2023 Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI), University of Washington MOUD Consortium Presentation: Invited to present to monthly virtual consortium. Marc Stern, MD, Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington, School of Public Health; Linda Frazier, RN, BS, MA, AHP, and Deann Rogers, M.S. presented on WMG as representative of WMG Steering Committee.

2023 National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) Presentation: WMG presentation at NCCHC Fall Conference; New Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails. Speakers: Speakers: Linda Frazier, RN, BS, MA, AHP; Marc Stern, MD, MPH, University of Washington Medical School; Jeff Alvarez, MD, CCHP-P, CCHP-A, NaphCare; Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD, AM.

2023 American College of Correctional Physicians (ACCP) Presentation: Withdrawal Management Guidelines Steering Committee member, Carolyn Sufrin, M.D., Ph.D., provided Keynote address at the conference. The presentation included an AHP developed slide on the Withdrawal Management Guidelines with contact information for questions and/or TA requests.

The program submitted a TTA request to obtain information about how to manage withdraw symptoms in a jail for the youth who are struggling just like the adults are. AHP spoke with the program and shared helpful resources.

AHP assisted in the development and coordination, as well presented at the 2023 COSSAP National Forum Session: Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails.
Presenters:
Stephen Amos, MS, Chief, Jails Division, National Institute of Corrections
Margaret Chapman, MA, Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance
Linda Frazier, MA, RN, MCHES, Director, Principal Consultant, Addictions Initiatives, Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.

The WA State Department of Children, Youth, and Families--Juvenile Rehabilitation submitted a TA request to obtain information on how to optimize their site-specific diversion prevention plans. AHP spoke with the program, provided resources, podcasts and webinar announcements that would be helpful to them.