Family Courts

After connecting with Chia through her involvement in the Arizona State Court Forum, Amy Hernandez, the Domestic Violence Program Coordinator

On June 29, 2022 TLPI Consultant Korey Wahwassuck co-presented with TLPI staff Suzanne Garcia on Family Healing to Wellness Courts for the workshop titled "Overview of Family Healing to Wellness Courts." This session introduces tribal courts, tribes, and tribal leaders to Family Healing to Wellness Courts and provides an opportunity to begin exploring how to implement or develop a Family Healing to Wellness Court.

TLPI collaborated with Law Enforcement Partner, TJI, for a plenary session presentation. On June 28, 2022 TLPI Consultant Korey Wahwassuck co-presented on intergovernmental court collaborations for the Plenary #2: Intergovernmental Collaborations to Support Community Safety at the American Indian Justice Conference. This session highlighted the need for collaborations to support responses to Crime in Tribal Communities. A specific discussion also included how intergovernmental collaborations can support the implementation and enforcement of tribal laws.

After TLPI sent a Publication Announcement for the Joint Jurisdiction Needs Assessment Full Report and Summary Findings, Elizabeth (Betsy) Horsman reached out to Jacob Metoxen at TYRC stating that she had a legal question regarding the appeals process for joint jurisdiction courts they she wanted to ask the authors of this report. She also requested if she could get a speaker on joint jurisdiction courts to present for 30-45 minutes at one of their monthly Advisory Board meetings.

Karima requested resources or handouts that are geared towards judges ar that could be shared a county commissioner meetings, particularly related to the cost benefit of family treatment courts, both nationally, but also particularly located in Florida.

The NDCRC gave an introductory presentation at the invitation of the Center for Court Innovation for their semi-annual state coordinators meeting on January 27, 2022. Co-directors Dr. Kristen DeVall and Dr. Christina Lanier reviewed NDCRC resources including operational documents, evaluation recommendations, the interactive map of treatment courts, webinars, research, Drug Court Review journal, the NDCRC newsletter, and original Justice to Healing podcast.

NDCRC co-directors Dr. Christina Lanier and Dr. Kristen DeVall reached out to state associations during spring 2022 to introduce the NDCRC. The California Association of Collaborative Courts (CACC) was very interested in the California state report distributed to the state coordinators as a result of their Painting the Current Picture survey response. On June 2, 2022, with the permission of state coordinators, Dr. Lanier and Dr. DeVall presented these findings to the CACC Racial Justice Equity and Inclusion Workgroup.

NDCRC co-directors Kristen DeVall and Christina Lanier participated in the National Drug Court Institute's Drug Court U program, during which they met virtually with representatives from individual courts who had requested time slots. For April 12-13, 2022, the theme for Drug Court U was data collection.

NDCRC co-directors Kristen DeVall and Christina Lanier participated in the National Drug Court Institute's Drug Court U program, during which they met virtually with representatives from individual courts who had requested time slots. For March 25 and 28, 2022, the theme for Drug Court U was grant writing; assistance would have focused on courts' needs in this area.

NDCRC co-directors Dr. Kristen DeVall and Dr. Christina Lanier will co-host a webinar with NADCP on April 27, 2022 to advise BJA Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program applicants on submitting proposals for treatment court funding.