Case Processing

This was the first session of the community of practice: Behavioral Health Criminal Case Processing:Exploring Person-Centered Justice in the Courts. This community of practice is being coordinated with the National Center for State Courts.

People experience incredibly high rates of trauma prior to and because of their involvement in the criminal justice system. As a result, many professionals working in the justice system are beginning to implement a trauma-informed approach that guides behavioral health and criminal justice professionals to develop practices, services, and policies that promote recovery and avoid re-traumatization. Both culture and individual risk and resilience factors influence how trauma is conceptualized and experienced.

NACDL and NLADA emailed their membership lists about the launch of the Race and Defenders Survey in January 2022

Center, NLADA, and Brennan Center staff met to discuss plans for a future roundtable with clients and directly impacted individuals.

Center staff facilitated six calls with survey pilot testers to solicit their feedback on the survey questions.

Center, NLADA, NACDL, and RTI staff met to review survey and interview questions, and to continue planning for upcoming piloting of the survey questions.

Center staff participated in a call with representatives from Wayne County to discuss their unsuccessful research proposal on vertical representation.

Center, NLADA, NACDL, and RTI staff met to review survey questions and plan for upcoming piloting of the survey questions.

Center staff facilitated a final meeting with the full planning team from West Virginia and discussed next steps to continue the work started under this initiative.

Center and RTI staff met to review the timelines for survey and interviews to ensure alignment between the two pieces of the project.