TLPI Celebrates National Treatment Court Month
May 22-26, 2023
Recordings & Materials
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) celebrated National Treatment Court Month. During the week of May 22-26, 2023, TLPI will hosted a series of 75-minute webinars each day to provide your program with the knowledge to design an innovative and successful wellness court model, to heal and restore members of your community. The webinars will covered topics related to the history and evolution of Healing to Wellness Courts, drafting wellness courts into tribal law, and joint jurisdiction collaboration.
This event was approved for 6.25 Minimum Continuting Legal Education (MCLE) credit hours from the California State Bar.
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For any questions or comments, please contact Wellness@TLPI.org.
Monday, May 22, 2023
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: History and Evolution
Session Description: This session will look back at lessons learned from the first four Healing Wellness to Courts and a look to the future. Healing to Wellness Courts have evolved from responses to addiction issues in tribal communities to respected programs that work collaboratively with non-tribal jurisdictions. Healing to Wellness Courts are opportunities for tribal communities to become innovative in their response to addiction issues and the criminal justice system, some of these innovations will be highlighted in this presentation.
- Alyssa Harrold, Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
- Angie Juarez-Monger, Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
- Catherine Retana, Tribal Law Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
- Grace Carson, Skadden Fellow, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Putting the Wellness Court into Code
Session Description: This session will discuss the recent TLPI publication: Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Formalizing Healing to Wellness Courts in Tribal Law (2022), which tracks ways in tribes have drafted Wellness Courts into tribal law. Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts are restorative justice components of the Tribal Court. To the extent they operate a docket, adjudicate cases, and most critically, heal and restore members and the community, some tribes have noted their existence in the tribal code. Because each tribe is structurally and culturally unique, there is no one correct way to promulgate a Wellness Court into tribal law, or if that exercise is even necessary. This session will identify the considerations for code drafting, identify variations, and push tribes to contemplate how the Wellness Court operates in relation to other parts of the tribal judiciary and tribal law.
- Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
An Overview of Legal Issues & Support for Native American and Alaska Native Veterans
Session Description: The webinar will set forth basic demographic and historical information about the diverse backgrounds of Native American veterans including common experiences many share. It will highlight key issues of importance to medical and legal practitioners seeking to connect with veterans, including cultural issues and stereotypes affecting veterans; issues related to entering and exiting the military; the impacts of trauma; the benefit of linking services with medical and mental health systems and/or wellness and treatment courts; and the importance of tribal members and veterans in leadership roles with broad consultative influence in designing program models and outreach.
- Raymond Daw, Behavioral Health Consultant
- Regina Roanhorse Begay, Court Administrator, Navajo Nation Judicial Branch Judicial District of Alamo and Judicial District of To’Hajiilee
- Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Dayton and Tribal Law Consultant, National American Indian Court Judges Association
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts as Restorative Justice
Session Description: “Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts as Restorative Justice” will explain how the foundations of Healing to Wellness Courts (HTWC) are rooted in restorative justice principles, and how HTWCs have since evolved from these restorative foundations. This webinar will explore restorative justice approaches, current restorative justice practices found in HTWCs, and how to increase restorative approaches in HTWCs. There will also be discussion about why restorative justice is an important aspect of HTWCs, the wellbeing of our community members, and tribal sovereignty.
- Grace Carson, Skadden Fellow, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Friday, May 26, 2023
Joint Jurisdiction Healing to Wellness Courts 101: An Overview
Session Description:Tribal, state, federal and local courts have overlapping jurisdictions and face common challenges and resource limitations. To address these concerns, several jurisdictions have come together in a joint jurisdictional Healing to Wellness Courts (HTWC) model that acknowledges each other’s autonomy, while sharing resources for better outcomes for everyone. This workshop will discuss what joint jurisdictional courts are, how they began, and how through different forms of intergovernmental collaboration, tribes have been successful in operating joint jurisdictional HTWC courts.
- Hon. Korey Wahwassuck, Judge, Ninth Judicial District, Itasca County, Minnesota