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Audience: Case Workers

Supporting Tribal Youth Attendance Achievement

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This publication serves as a primer to assist with understanding issues of chronic absenteeism, truancy, prevention, and intervention processes. It addresses historic education policy and contemporary approaches utilized by Tribal communities to prevent and address truancy among Tribal youth and highlights helpful community-based approaches to support delinquency prevention program development. This publication will direct readers to existing resources and information that may support new or developing truancy prevention programs.

Additionally, it includes strategic planning activities to support individual consideration or team development of a truancy prevention program.

Developed by the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center.

Navigating Ethical Rules in Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts – Part One

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Session Description: An online learning event hosted by the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center, in this session, presenters provide an overview to participants on building an understanding of ethical rules through the survey of Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court team member roles; consider various ethical rules as applied to juveniles and how those rules impact the sharing of participant private information; and learn strategies and helpful approaches to work within these rules for effective service provision. 

Talking Attendance: A Dialogue on Truancy Prevention

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Session Description: In this online learning event hosted by the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center, the presenter provides an overview to participants through an open dialogue on gaining knowledge about current issues impacting Tribal truancy prevention initiatives in community or court-based programs.

Pathway to Resilience, Healing, and Cultural Restoration: Cultural Considerations in Collaboration

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Session Description: In this online learning event hosted by the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center, presenters provide an overview to participants regarding successful approaches to engage community partners and sustain community collaborations in culturally informed ways. With a focus on strategies that enhance and strengthen the protective factors, this presentation had a special emphasis on the role of cultural connectedness among our youth and strengthening their capacity to avoid the justice system. Presenters have discussed the role of culture in initiating and sustaining partnerships and collaborations in Native communities and have shared tribal best practices for selecting culturally informed and appropriate interventions.

Program Evaluation and Sustainability Planning

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Considerations and Strategies to Support Program Maintenance and Continuity

An online learning event hosted by the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center, in this session, the presenters provided an overview of program evaluation and sustainability while considering the implications for program continuity and services.

Youth in Recovery

Written by Laura Smith on .

Description: An online learning event hosted by the Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts in collaboration with the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center, in this session, presenters provided an overview of the difficulties of adolescence. When teenage use of substance becomes out of control, how do we as a family, community, or agency support a youth in recovery.