Tribal Justice

TJSPP Mentor wil assist the tribe with their tribal justice system strategic plan. Assistance consists of email and phone communication and plan review/feedback.

TJSPP Mentor wil assist the tribe with their tribal justice system strategic plan. Assistance consists of email and phone communication and plan review/feedback.

TJSPP Mentor assist the tribe with their tribal justice system strategic plan. Assistance includes conference/phone calls, email communication and strategic plan review/feedback.

The Criminal Court Assessment Tool (CCAT) is a new, brief assessment tool that identifies an offender’s risk level of reoffending prior to case disposition, while also screening for key needs which, if treated, would be expected to lower the risk of reoffending. The Center for Court Innovation developed this tool to fill a gap in existing risk-needs assessment tools, which have primarily been designed to be implemented post-sentencing and with serious offenders.

Honalee Gallegos, Vice President of Idaho Juvenile Justice Association invited me to speak at their conference in September. BJA approved this request. David Flores, Chief Probation Officer for Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Kimberly Cobb attended the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association Meeting on September 13-16, 2015 to network with tribal-state probation officers as well as provide a 90-minute workshop session on the importance of culture when supervising American Indian supervisees placed on community supervision.

The US Attorney’s Office and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe requested Kimberly Cobb to join them as faculty at this event to discuss the reentry initiative. A total of 82 individuals attended this session.

Tsyosha?aht Delgado, Director of the Wisconsin Reintegration Program contacted Kimberly Cobb to discuss sustainability of her program and shared that her program was not re-funded and will be ending services on 12/30/15. She wanted to meet with me to discuss some additional funding possibilities. I invited her to visit with Samantha Casey (Ho-Chunk Nation) during my onsite visit with them on September 29-30, 2015 and she agreed.

This 2:00 p.m. ET webinar will introduce you to TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling (TMEC) and show you some ideas about how to use it. The TCU/IBR Website (www.ibr.tcu.edu) contains the references, abstracts and other free downloadable manuals that will help you incorporate TMEC into your program. TMEC evolved from earlier work on graphic representation to improve the communication and thinking of teachers and students. The success of visual approaches, in particular node-link mapping, in education led to applications in counseling starting in 1989.

A request for technical assistance was received by the tribe on 4/30/15. Kim Cobb and Lucinda Yellowhair, Probation Supervisor, discussed the TA request on 6/5/15. Cindy would like Kim to provide a full day of training for her 28 probation officers on Report Writing (specifically PSI writing and recommendations) and an overview of reentry and their role in the reentry process. However, due to an illness in Kimberly’s family, the TA had to be postponed.

Kimberly Cobb continued to work with UMU and the US Attorney’s Office in Colorado regarding their reentry initiative. Calls were held on 10/6/16, 12/2/15, and 12/6/15 related to progress updates and specifically the position of reentry and community resource coordinator. A job description was drafted and sent around for review and comment for the tribe to finalize and present to the tribal council for approval to move forward with recruiting and hiring of the position.