Other Adjudication/Courts

Two-day in-person veteran jurisdiction-specific training with sessions focusing on Incentives, Sanctions, and Service Adjustments. All sessions will include a 45-minute to one-hour-long presentation followed by 15 minutes for Q&A, and breakout sessions for response and development.

Webinar: Tribal Peacemaking and Peace Circles: Comparative Models and Implementations presented by National American Indian Court Judges Association Executive Director Nikki Borchardt Campbell
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), along with our training and technical assistance partners - the Tribal Judicial Institute (TJI), and National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) present an upcoming webinar, Tribal Peacemaking and Peace Circles: Comparative Models and Implementations presented by A. Nikki Borchardt Campbell.

All Technical Assistance Providers for CTAS Grantees were invited to present a TTA Overview at the in-person FY23 CTAS New Grantee Orientation in Seattle, Washington on January 9-10, 2024. The Tribal Law and Policy Institute is a TTA provider for CTAS - Purpose Area 3 grantees with Tribal Court projects under the Tribal Court, Justice Systems, Intergovernmental Collaboration Project; and for Tribal Healing to Wellness Court projects under the Tribal Justice TTA Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts project.

Center staff Karen Otis, Sheila McCarthy, and Taylor DeClerck traveled to present 4 sessions at the 2023 Momentum: Prevention, Justice, Recovery Conference hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) on December 5-7, 2023. The first session titled "Innovative Practices in the Courtroom" provided the fundamentals for trauma-informed care, education on how Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are impacted by the legal system, the use and impact of language and the importance of adapting courtrooms.

Center staff hosted a VTC Summit on April 2nd and April 3rd, 2024, at the National Veterans Resource Center in Syracuse, NY. This in-person summit was an opportunity for teams from the 2019 cohort (California, Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) and 2022 cohort (Arkansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon) to connect, collaborate, and learn about veteran-specific topics through plenary and break-out sessions. Attendees included about ten VTC stakeholders from each of the nine different states that the Center has worked with on VTC strategic planning.

Activities:
-Watch the video “Applying the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model in Veterans Treatment Courts”
-Complete pre-test and post-test that are embedded in the video

Audience:
-All VTC members

Objectives and Learning Outcomes:
-Define and recall the principles of risk, need, and responsivity (RNR)
-Summarize the evidence on RNR and how it applies to justice-involved veterans
-Identify ways the RNR model may need to be modified to enhance services for justice-involved veterans

Describe the components of the VET-S and VTQ-C; Differentiate the potential uses of each assessment as an eligibility screener or case planning tool; Practice scoring the instrument(s) with sufficient accuracy.

Define and recall the principles of risk, need, and responsivity (RNR); Summarize the evidence on RNR and how it applies to justice-involved veterans; Identify ways the RNR model may need to be modified to enhance services for justice-involved veterans

Provide training and technical assistance in accordance with approved deliverables

Provide training and technical assistance in accordance with approved deliverables