Test your community’s response in conducting an initial investigation, search and canvass activities for a missing or abducted child scenario occurring on tribal lands. Employ strategies and responses in mitigating and resolving the emergency. Participate in a multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional tabletop exercise, to build cohesiveness with tribal, state, local and federal partners when responding to an emergency.
Discover proven investigative strategies and acquire the requisite skills to investigate and manage unresolved homicides and long-term missing children and adult cases in Alaskan Native Villages. Explore the roles and responsibilities of an unresolved case team when working these investigations. Gain insight into the dynamics of violent crime investigations, missing persons, homicides, and no-body homicide investigations. Understand how to identify services and resources in support of unresolved investigations. Best practices and lessons learned will be illustrated from a case study derived from a collection of real-world examples. This course is consistent with Best Practice recommendations published by the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Discuss the barriers that result from the criminalization of substance use disorders and mental health disorders. Explore various challenges faced by tribal populations in accessing culturally competent reentry services, including substance use disorder and mental health treatment and diversion programs. Examine alternatives to incarceration for effective behavioral health interventions. Review the benefits of peer support and mentorship programs during reentry. Discuss the importance of cultural competency in service provision and ways for tribal agencies to collaborate with external providers to deliver cultural competency training.
Victimology, a comprehensive collection of personal information regarding the missing child and their immediate family, is a crucial part of missing child investigations in Indian Country. It is a collection of information addressing personality, lifestyle, and patterns that reveal specific risks, vulnerabilities, and stressors for the child. Victimology provides the foundation to determine the level and nature of the child’s risk of victimization. Victimology factors that form the basis for a subsequent risk assessment will be thoroughly discussed.
Join Kevin Poleyumptewa, Project Coordinator with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College, for an in-depth conversation around the benefits of fatherhood programs in supporting Native fathers struggling with addiction on their journeys to recovery.
Previous webinars have set the stage for successful reentry and reintegration post-treatment and post-incarceration and provided initial strategies to increase access to culturally competent reentry services, including substance use disorder and mental health treatment. Join this session for a facilitated discussion and open forum with subject matter experts who will answer your practical questions regarding working with alternatives to incarceration and benefits of peer supports and mentorship programs during reentry. Prior to this session, we will gather feedback from you about what you would like to learn about the topic from the experts. Your participation is highly encouraged during the session, and additional questions will be taken at that time.
This Community of Practice session is part of a series, please see About Section below for details. Corrections work today is far more challenging than it has ever been. There are a lot of great practices and ideas about how to help clients succeed and protect communities. This series of Communities of Practice (CoP’s) is designed to provide information on issues and best practices in corrections (specifically probation and reentry professionals) working in tribal communities. Please join us to learn and share over the next several months.
Join other probation and corrections professionals to build foundational skills through this comprehensive and interactive virtual training academy. Community based corrections is the most significant criminal justice response to crime. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics site, over 70% of all offenders are placed on community based corrections and over 95% of all offenders will be released back into the community. Over the course of 20 weeks, you will examine traditional, evidence-based, victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches to community supervision and re-entry. Course work is designed to support application techniques and case management concepts in the development of core supervisory skills to improve overall outcomes for victims/survivors, communities and offenders.
When working in the addiction field, we frequently encounter clients who appear unmotivated to change. During this webinar, we will explore the concept of motivation and provide you with practical skills to develop intrinsic motivation toward long-term behavior change.
Motivational Interviewing is a style of interaction that is client-driven and supports individuals in the healing and change process. There is significant research in the health, education and criminal justice fields that supports the use of motivational interviewing in addressing the needs of victim/survivors and offenders, providing support and helping to facilitate change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a trauma-informed interviewing/interacting technique that focuses on creating supportive, meaningful and strategic conversations. This advanced training will provide the context of evidence-based practices on how to have these conversations and will leave you with practical skills to engage in short and effective conversations to initiate, or facilitate, the process of behavior-change and effective support. This training will focus on change talk, working with resistance, and exploring and resolving ambivalence.
