Civil Justice

Mentor Courts serve as models for individuals and court teams interested in starting an Adult Drug Court or for established courts interested in learning innovative practices.

In May 2015, Center staff conduced office based technical assistance. Center staff reviewed a document for Jenn Ruben, Chief Prosecutor, Yavapai-Apache Nation. Staff assisted Jenn Ruben,Chief Prosecutor, Yavapai-Apache Nation, with data collection. Staff forwarded the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team Training information to Catawba Indian Nation. Staff edited the Winnebago Tribe's OJJDP strategic planning proposal.

Mentor Courts serve as models for individuals and court teams interested in starting an Adult Drug Court or for established courts interested in learning innovative practices.

Mentor Courts serve as models for individuals and court teams interested in starting an Adult Drug Court or for established courts interested in learning innovative practices.

Center staff conducted the following office based TA:
- re-wrote the grant application for the Pine Ridge Peace Making Seventh Generation Fund Application
-edited the Tribal Law and Order Act Violence Against Women Act for Jenn Ruben, prosecutor for the Yavapai-Apache Nation
-forwarded the FREE DOJ Training: Tribal and Federal Training on Wildlife and Pollution Enforcement Issues Affecting Tribal Lands information to Catawba Indian Nation

In March of 2015, Center staff completed the following technical assistance. Staff had a 1 hour planning call with Pine Ridge regarding a peacemaking program. Staff had a 50 minute call with Tribal Prosecutor Jenn Ruben from the Yavapai Apache Nation regarding design and structure in the criminal justice system. Staff had a planning call with the Oglala Sioux Tribe regarding implementing a peacemaking program. Staff did a 30 minute document review for the victims services program at the Yavapai Apache Nation.

The Oregon Judicial Department contacted TLPI to request TA at their first Tribal-State Court forum meeting in August of 2015. They requested assistance with agenda development,funding of presenters on VAWA and ICWA, as well as a TLPI presentation on tribal-state court forums and general facilitation of the day long meeting.

Center staff reviewed different designs proposed by website designers and helped draft a new wireframe design to present to the website designers. Staff also provided website designers with extensive feedback on the design comps including, 3 rounds of website comp reviews with website designers, 6 internal team meetings to discuss website design, 3 conference calls with the website designers, and over 150 emails and basecamp messages exchanged with website designers. Additionally, two Center staff were trained in how to upload content to the development site.

The National Judicial College provides scholarships to enable judges and other court service professionals to attend judicial education courses at NJC. We announce the availability of scholarships to the chief justice of every state, to the state court administrators, to the state judicial educators, and directly to the judges. The judges apply using a Scholarship Application form and we review their application based upon need, geographic diversity, educational record and eligibility for the course. We require scholarship recipients to attend all sessions and to provide an evaluation.

The National Tribal Judicial Center at The National Judicial College awards financial assistance to judges and other court service professionals from tribal courts to enable them to receive continuing education to improve their tribal justice systems.