During this strategic planning session, we’ll discuss the assortment of ways Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts utilize data to make their services more effective. Topics covered will include: collection methods, types of data, confidentiality, inter-governmental agreements, and trauma informed decision-making. We will also discuss Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention requirements to ensure your court is up to date with its grant reporting.
During this session, the TYRC will lead a discussion around budgetary considerations that are common among Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court grantees. We will look at grant requirements, modifications, and different ways grantees utilize funding streams to maximize services available to youth. Overall, the goal of this session will be to encourage dialogue in order to assist grantees in clarifying any questions they may have regarding the budgetary process.
Many of our Tribal youth continue to have much higher rates of engagement with the juvenile justice systems and there continues to be a need for communities to develop and sustain effective partnerships to address the complexity of issues that surround our youth in their interactions with justice systems. This presentation offers participants 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 will have a special emphasis on the role of cultural connectedness among our youth and strengthening their capacity to avoid the justice system. Presenters will discuss the role of culture in initiating and sustaining partnerships and collaborations in Native communities and will share tribal best practices for selecting culturally informed and appropriate interventions.
Leon Leader Charge shared insight into increasing best practices for Native youth that includes: language, mental health treatment, and various programs connecting youth to culture. Leon Leader Charge also provided an overview of risk protective factors that support youth wellness, including the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. Finally, Leon Leader Charge will speak about his practices encouraging youth to build resiliency socially and academically as it pertains to Youth Healing to Wellness Courts.
We cannot do this work alone. Building and sustaining partnerships in tribal truancy prevention programs can help reduce student absenteeism. Partnerships form a shared ownership and responsibility for the success of program-involved youth. This session is designed to support tribal truancy prevention programs.
The Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court is a transformative strengths-based judicial process. The Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court should be designed to provide therapeutic and individualized responses for Tribal youth. There is no singular definition or type of Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court. Generally, the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court applies focused judicial responsiveness in conjunction with treatment, mentorship, cultural connectivity, and community engagement to support youth sobriety, wellness and future autonomy.
Session One: Best Practices and Promising Approaches for Adolescent Natives
Session Objectives:
Understand the goals of the Wellness court and processes to support Tribal youth.
Survey the Tribal Ten Key Components for Wellness Courts and other Promising Approaches to support youth diversion and treatment.
Study the foundational elements of the Juvenile Healing to Wellness court structure.
Session Two: Developing the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Team
Session Objectives:
Review the interdisciplinary approach to the Juvenile Healing to Wellness court.
Survey the roles and responsibilities of core team members within the Wellness court framework.
Discuss the development of partnerships that can support effective treatment and referral to appropriate services.
Session Three: Risks and Needs
Session Objectives:
Understand and determine processes to support selection of youth participants within the Wellness Court structure.
Review guidelines and research that support the development of processes that will assist the team in selecting court participants.
Discuss appropriate measures to utilize in selecting youth participants based on community and local needs/strengths.
Session Four: Case Management and Community Supervision
Session Objectives:
Understand approaches to support effective case management processes to support youth.
Survey processes integrated within Wellness Court structures to support team communication and ongoing supportive interaction and case progress for youth participants.
Discuss resources and supportive tools that can assist with case management processes.
Session Five: Promoting Positive Behavior Change: Responses in the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court
Session Objectives:
Understand the types of activities that can support positive behavior change, including responses to positive and negative participant behaviors.
Survey resource tools to support effective response to participant behaviors within the Wellness Court.
Discuss phase progressions within the Wellness Court framework.
Session 6: Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Phases
Session Objectives:
Understand the definition of “therapeutic” justice and the purpose and types of Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts.
Survey the statutory diversion mechanisms to Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts.
Discuss the basic components of a Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court policy and procedures manual.
