The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) invites you to join our Webinar Series: Family Healing to Wellness Courts. TLPI will host 90-minute webinars, beginning at 9am AKT / 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET.
- Friday, January 23, 2026
- Monday, January 26, 2026
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026
- Friday, January 30, 2026
These webinars will address pertinent topics related to Family Healing to Wellness Courts, including development of a family healing to wellness court track, successful recovery approaches and ways to integrate the Indian Country Collaborative Values Inventory (IC-CVI) to support families.
This webinar series is free to all participants.
Friday, January 23, 2026
From Vision to Action: Starting a Family Healing to Wellness Court That Works
- Someh Lewis, Program Association, Program Associate, Center for Children and Family Futures
- Sean Couch, Senior Program Associate, Center for Children and Family Futures
Webinar Description: Healing to wellness courts often focus on the specific needs of adult participants. Healing one person in isolation may not be effective if the family and community system remains unhealthy or unsupported. By involving the family, healing to wellness courts improve outcomes for individuals, strengthen families, and honor community healing. Many Tribes have expressed an interest in partnering with child welfare partners to heal entire families while maintaining their Tribe’s children in their homes and in their communities. This session will introduce strategies to develop a track or an entirely new Family Healing to Wellness Court to improve individual outcomes and strengthen families. Attendees will learn about identifying needs, collaborating with new family-focused partners, and meeting the needs of all family members.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Why Values Matter: Using the Collaborative Values Inventory to Improve Services for Families
- Someh Lewis, Program Association, Program Associate, Center for Children and Family Futures
- Sean Couch, Senior Program Associate, Center for Children and Family Futures
Webinar Description: The subject of how substance use and mental health disorder affects a person’s ability to parent is value laden. Different people bring vastly different outlooks and perspectives to this issue based on factors like professional training and experience, personal background, and the philosophy of the agency or organization in which they are employed. These differing perspectives can create barriers to working together, and all too often, collaborative teams carry out their work without discussing these differences. Children and Family Futures and the Tribal Law and Policy Institute developed the Indian Country Collaborative Values Inventory (IC-CVI) to help teams overcome these barriers. The IC-CVI assesses differences in culture, values and worldview, communication styles, and understandings about family and community. This session will describe the IC-CVI, provide specific examples of how the tool has been used, and give attendees an opportunity to use the tool live. Presenters will facilitate a discussion about how the tool can be used to overcome differences in beliefs and improve services and supports for families.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Building Recovery Capital in Family Healing to Wellness Courts
- Wendy Schiller, Project Director, Center for Advancing Justice, All Rise
Webinar Description: This session will discuss the essential components necessary for successful recovery for parents involved in Family Healing to Wellness Courts. The faculty will review the critical role of resources in supporting not only the individual recovery journey, but also for the family unit. Learn about the profound impact of building recovery capital as a family-centered approach in promoting and sustaining recovery efforts. In addition, faculty will explore how using a recovery capital approach can increase their ability to identify if reasonable and active efforts towards reunification are being made.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Lessons Learned from Family Healing to Wellness Courts
- Hon. Leona Colgrove, Chief Judge, Quinault Tribal Court
- Hon. Tammy Swanson, Special Magistrate, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
Webinar Description: This session will focus on “lessons learned” from implementing a Family Healing to Wellness Court in two Tribal communities. Tribes often implement adult or juvenile healing to wellness courts and soon find out that the focus may need to be on the family. Two Tribal communities will provide their experiences and successes in implementing a Family Healing to Wellness Court.