Domestic Violence Courts

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.

Washington tribal and state judges are re-establishing their tribal-state court forum and are hosting their first regional meeting on February 25 at the Suquamish reservation. Tribal and State judges reached out to TLPI to provide a history of tribal-state court forums, a presentation on successes of forums and a facilitator for the meeting.

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.

The Center for Court Innovation hosted, Community Justice 2016, an international summit on how to reduce crime and incarceration while improving public trust in justice. The three-day training was held in Chicago from April 13 to April 15, 2016.

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 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.

In March of 2015, Center staff completed the following office based TA. Staff emailed Kim Martus, from the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, a variety of resources and information on re-entry. Staff members conducted a one-hour planning call with Pine Ridge officials to discuss training and technical assistance for the tribe's peacemaking program. Staff emailed tribes about the 2015 Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Survey.

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.

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.

The WI, MN, MI State and Tribal Judges Forum provided an opportunity for Judges to share best practices and network. The Judges from Michigan spent lunch discussing the morning session presented by Minnesota Judges and how Michigan could integrate similar programming. Having a venue to share, network, and discuss enhancements is crucial to the justice system.