Wednesday, September 18, 2024

 

7:00am – 9:00am 

Registration / Check-In

Room Location: Deer Valley, 2nd level

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8:30am – 9:15am

Morning Wellness

Room Location: Valley Overlook, 4th level

 

9:30am-11:00am

Opening

Room Location: Phoenix Ballroom AB, 3rd level

• Opening Remarks from Tribal Law and Policy Institute

• Honor Guard - Posting of Flags

• Opening Remarks from Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Juvenile justice and Delinquency Prevention

 

Plenary

From Incarceration to Inspiration: A Journey of Redemption and Leadership (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Phoenix Ballroom AB, 3rd level

• Allen King, Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Plenary Description: This plenary will take attendees on an inspiring journey of redemption and leadership, as experienced by Allen King. The plenary will highlight the importance of integrating traditional Indigenous healing practices with modern therapeutic approaches, emphasizing the role of cultural identity in recovery and leadership development. Attendees will gain insights into building trust with clients, fostering resilience, and creating programs that honor and incorporate cultural traditions. 

 

11:00am-11:15am

Break (On your own – no federal funds used for food or beverage)

 

11:15am-12:30pm

1st  Breakout – Sessions A

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A1 - Adult Healing to Wellness Courts

Criminal Thinking: Identifying Drivers and Interventions- An Overview (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Camelback, 2nd level

• Michelle Hart, Training Consultant/Deputy Chief Probation Officer, ret., Michelle Hart Consulting & Arizona Association of Drug Court Professionals

Session Description: As research states, the population that does best in all treatment court types are the high risk/high need individuals. Standardized and validated risk assessments should be used to determine eligibility and drive supervision and interventions specific to criminogenic needs or risk factors. Participants in our treatment courts may have the same or similar risk scores, but what drives the scores, and corresponding criminogenic needs is very individualized. Addressing criminal thinking is just as important as providing clinical treatment. This workshop will give an overview of the different criminal or antisocial thinking and attitudes, demonstrate a core correctional practice that will help identify specific drivers and interventions.

 

A2 - Role Specific to Healing to Wellness Courts

Risk Assessments and Recovery Capital: Utilizing Client Risk and Protective Factors for Effective Case Management (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Phoenix Ballroom AB, 3rd level

• Alyssa Harrold, Wellness Court Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute

Session Description: This presentation will focus on effectively using risk assessments and recovery capital in case management. By integrating these elements, the Tribal Healing to Wellness Court (THWC) team can promote a client-centered approach that supports THWC clients holistically, enhances their recovery journey, and facilitates meaningful improvements. Learning objectives will include how motivational interviewing can enrich risk assessment practices, provide strategies for balancing recovery capital with risk management, and examine techniques for measuring and seeing progress. Through practical insights and success stories, participants will learn to apply these concepts to optimize case management outcomes.

 

A3 – Family/Veterans Healing to Wellness Courts

Grant Writing Workshop: Selling Your Healing to Wellness Court Program (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Desert Sky, 3rd level

• Dr. Christina Lanier, Co-Director, National Drug Court Resource Center

• Dr. Kristen DeVall, Co-Director, National Drug Court Resource Center

Session Description: This skill-building session will give you an overview of federal grant proposal components and examples of required sections. We will begin with a discussion of grant planning activities so that you are prepared to apply. This will be followed by strategies for writing a compelling statement of the issue using data to support your need for funding. Often the most heavily weighted section of any grant proposal is the project design or implementation approach. To this end, this session will focus on how to use various data sources to identify specific areas of need and to devise an appropriate implementation strategy for addressing those needs.

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A4 - Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts

Native/Tribal Strengths-Based Approaches, Elders and Elder’s Panels in Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Maryvale, 2nd level

• Selina Kenmille, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Program Coordinator, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

• Loretta Hoots, Bureau of Indian Affairs/ National Monitoring Center Manager, Natural Resource Department Safety of Dams Program

Session Description: This session will cover the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Tribal Restorative Practices, as part of their Juvenile Healing to Wellness Program. The program uses Elders Panels and mentoring to help youth repair from hurt and harm.

 

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch (On your own – no federal funds used for food or beverage)

 

2:00pm – 3:15pm

2nd Breakout – Sessions B

 

B1 - Adult Healing to Wellness Courts

Practical Guide to Understanding Incentives, Sanctions and Service Adjustments (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Camelback, 2nd level

• Susan Alameda, Project Director, All Rise

• Michelle Hart, Training Consultant/Deputy Chief Probation Officer, ret., Michelle Hart Consulting & Arizona Association of Drug Court Professionals

Session Description: This session will address how the treatment court can effectively apply evidence-based and procedurally fair behavior modification practices that are proven to be safe and effective for high-risk and high-need persons. Incentives and sanctions, as outlined in Standard IV of the Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standards, are delivered to enhance adherence to program goals and conditions that participants can achieve and sustain with relative ease and for a reasonable time (proximal goals). Service adjustments are delivered to help participants achieve goals that are too difficult for them to accomplish currently and require time and assistance to master (distal goals). Utilizing the Staffing Framework, teams can address participant behavior, set program goals, and choose safe and effective responses.

 

B2 - Role Specific to Healing to Wellness Courts

Weaving the Peer Recovery Advocate into the Braided Services Wellness Court Team (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Phoenix Ballroom AB, 3rd level

• Hon. Rhonda Decontie, Magistrate Judge, Penobscot Nation Tribal Courts

• Kylee Francis Fowler, Peer Recover Advocate, Penobscot Nation Tribal Courts

Session Description: This presentation will discuss the construction and maintenance of the Braided Services/Multi-Disciplinary Team in a Healing to Wellness Court. As part of the discussion Judge Decontie will discuss the role of the Judge in developing positive Wellness Team dynamics. The conversation will then turn to the importance of including a Peer Recovery Advocate on the Wellness Team. Peer Recovery Advocate Kylee Francis Fowler will share her journey to becoming a Peer Recovery Advocate. Having an alumni of Wellness Court serve as an advocate has been instrumental in building relationships with participants. The advocate has been through the program and has first-hand knowledge of all the requirements. Penobscot has had tremendous success and will share how this position has strengthened their team.

 

B3 - Family/Veterans Healing to Wellness Courts

Veterans Treatment Courts: National Trends, Promising Practices, and Considerations for Tribal Adaptations (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Desert Sky, 3rd level

• Alisha Morrison, Senior Program Manager, Tribal Justice Exchange, Center for Justice Innovation

• Shelia McCarthy, Senior Program Manager, Recovery and Reform, Center for Justice Innovation

Session Description: Session Description: Since 2019, The Center for Justice Innovation (Center) has worked with 10 states to strengthen and enhance Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) statewide. Working in two cohorts, the Center facilitated a fact finding and action planning process to identify common issues that impact VTCs and develop state-specific blueprints. Through this process, several national trends emerged. In conjunction, American University has partnered with some of the Center’s cohort to pilot a revolutionary risk screening tool and assessment specifically designed for the veteran population. Opportunities for programs to join the pilot program will be discussed. In this session Center staff will highlight lessons learned from the field that are unique to the veteran population and the solutions developed in response. Those solutions have the potential to impact all VTC practitioners, from the bench to the community. Center staff will also explore the unique opportunities for working with veterans through a healing to wellness court model and provide examples and considerations from the field for implementation and adaptation.

 

B4 - Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts

The Intrusion of Fentanyl in Our Society and what Juvenile Healing to Wellness Teams Need to Know (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Maryvale, 2nd level

• Stephanie Meyer, Surveillance Officer, Pinal County Adult Probation

Session Description: This session will cover the need to be informed about the fatal risks of fentanyl use, the proper use of Narcan (Naloxone), and the reality that fentanyl affects everyone. The goal of the presentation is to raise awareness and hope in our Tribal communities. Narcan (Naloxone) saves lives, and with proper training and harm reduction education the hope is destigmatize and reduce overdose deaths in our communities.

 

3:15pm – 3:30pm

Break (On your own – no federal funds used for food or beverage)

 

3:30pm – 4:45pm

3rd Breakout – Sessions C

 

C1 - Adult Healing to Wellness Courts

Using Anishinaabe Culture to Support Recovery Principles (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Phoenix Ballroom AB, 3rd level

• Matthew Lesky, Attorney, Court Administrator, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Tribal Court

• Kevin Gasco, Male Cultural Resource Advisor, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Tribal Court

• Miigwaans Smith, Female Cultural Resource Advisor, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Tribal Court

Session Description: The Waabhski-Miigwan Healing to Wellness Court has a foundational principle of utilizing culture as a basis of programming, an increasing practice among Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts (THTWC) as they reclaim their indigenous sovereignty. This presentation will discuss how changes in the approach to the incorporation of culture over time have led to better outcomes for clients and a growth in recovery capital outside of the program and the use of a cultural assessment tool. The presenters will also be highlighting the importance of land-based activities and having clients putting their hands “on the work.”

 

C2 - Role Specific to Healing to Wellness Courts

The Road to Success: Treatment Court Coordinator Bootcamp (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Camelback, 2nd level

• Kendall Friend, Senior Court Management Consultant, National Center for State Courts

• Lisa Williams, Senior Court Management Consultant, National Center for State Courts

Session Description: Court coordinators wear several hats, but how do they efficiently and effectively execute tasks? New and experienced coordinators will master best practices in collaborating with team members, managing day-to-day tasks, engaging with treatment providers and the community. This session will explore how to effectively work with peer support and alumni groups to increase sustainability and long-term support for the program and its participants. 

 

C3 - Family/Veterans Healing to Wellness Courts

Empowering Early Connections for Strong Futures: Integrating Child Development in Child Welfare Systems (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Desert Sky, 3rd level

• Marshalle Manriquez, Statewide Safe Babies Court Teams Coordinator, Prevent Child Abuse Arizona

• Meghan Hays Davis, Program and Training Director, Prevent Child Abuse Arizona

Session Description: Early experiences really matter. In this session we will discuss intentional systems integration that supports the crosswalk between child development and child welfare. We will highlight the work that is happening in Arizona under Best for Babies and discuss the ZERO TO THREE Safe Babies approach that helps guide our work. This approach is changing lives by transforming child welfare into the practice of child “well-being” using the science of early childhood development. By working together, we can ensure that young children benefit from the early connections that are critical to their well-being and development, laying a strong foundation for the rest of their lives.

 

C4 - Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts

Engagement and Community Belonging: The Power of Culture to Restore and Re-integrate Disenfranchised Youth (PowerPoint PDF)

Room Location: Maryvale, 2nd level

• Patti Buhl, Director, Department of Juvenile Justice, Cherokee Nation

• Leah Hitcher, Coordinator Juvenile Healing to Wellness, Cherokee Nation

Session Description: This session will cover how the Cherokee Nation Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court (JHWC) uses culture in their rehabilitation process. The presenters will share case studies demonstrating how their engagement techniques have been instrumental in helping shift youth and family member attitudes with respect to the disciplinary and justice systems.