National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts 2023 Annual Conference

NCREFC 2023 Conference Schedule SAVE THE DATE 2023 NCREFC Conference in Seattle_Final NCREFC 2023 Conference Registration Flyer  The program looks excellent! In addition to the many national presenters, local FTC experts, Meghan R Fitzgerald (FTC Training Coordinator), Gabrielle Cranor (Mason FRC Caseworker), Manisha Jackson (King FTC Family Recovery Support Specialist), & Jill Murphy (King FTC Program Supervisor) will be presenting on the 23rd, "Giving Context for Equity in the Courts: Where Lived Expertise, Trauma-Informed Care, and Belonging Intersect."  A pdf of the

SAMHSA GAINS: Harm Reduction Practices in Treatment Court: What Fits and What Doesn’t

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Harm reduction is broadly defined as a set of strategies to promote public health by reducing negative consequences associated with drug use for individuals, their families, and the community. It aims to reduce risks and improve quality of life for people who use drugs. Few would argue with these general definitions, but the implementation of harm reduction measures is often contested. What harm reduction looks like for people with justice involvement who are classified as high risk or high need

Incorporating the Family into Treatment and Recovery, Part 5: Celebrating Families!™ – Nurturing Family Resiliency and Healing

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Free webinar hosted by NAADAC Celebrating Families!™ (CF!) is a multi-family, trauma-sensitive, strength-based program. CF! was developed specifically for families dealing with or at high risk for substance use disorders, multi-generational trauma, physical and mental health challenges, cognitive deficits due to trauma, genetics, OR in-utero exposure, and safety regarding child abuse, neglect, and family violence. CF! addresses these needs through building healthy living skills and educational peer support. It serves the whole family, including children zero to 18 years old,

National Family Treatment Court Idea Exchange

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From Child and Family Futures: Come take part in lively, discipline-specific conversations about hot topics, innovations, and challenges! Sample "Hot Topics”: How have you worked with partners to overcome work force challenges? What are your top referral and engagement strategies?

Ethics and Boundaries in Treatment Court Roles

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Ethics and Boundaries in Treatment Court Roles  Within a therapeutic court team, there are a range of professional roles and duties. Among those can be judicial officers, attorneys, GALs/CASAs, behavioral health and SUD providers, advocates, and coordinators just to name a few. Defining and maintaining clear boundaries within these roles is vital to an effective family therapeutic court team. In this workshop, we will discuss the legal and ethical boundaries between forensic, treatment and evaluative roles. Join us for this

Attorney Academy on Reasonable & Active Efforts (Summer)

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Family & Youth Justice Programs is excited to partner with the Capacity Building Center for Courts (CBCC) to bring a Reasonable and Active Efforts Attorney Academy to Washington State on June 14th – June 15th (Summer Academy). This highly interactive, virtual training is designed to help attorneys practicing in the Washington child welfare system gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make substantive reasonable and active efforts arguments and engage in targeted out-of-court and in-court advocacy to ensure children, parents,

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Lactation and Substance Use: New Guidelines Training

South Sound Lactation is putting on a virtual presentation regarding lactation and substance use.  The presentation will cover weighing risks and benefits of infant feeding methods in the context of substance use, overview of guidelines, example cases and communication practice. It will also briefly review evidence summaries for MOUDs, opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants, nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis use during lactation, focused primarily on infant health impacts and monitoring. There will be a Q & A session after the presentation and the

Judicial Community of Practice (JCoP)

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The Judicial Community of Practice (JCoP) is a monthly, virtual peer-learning opportunity for dependency court judicial officers. Come learn about the best-practices being used in dependency courts and talk with your peers about what they are doing in their courts. JCoP sessions are led one of our expert Jurists-in-Residence, who are retired judicial officers with years of experience hearing child dependency cases. The sessions are topic-focused and include a Dependency Practice Tip that is sent out prior to each session.

Incorporating the Family into Treatment and Recovery, Part 6: Healing Children of Parental Substance Use Disorders

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Prevention begins with helping children of parents with substance use disorder heal. Trauma and chronic stress alter brain function and can lead to negative outcomes, including ineffective coping skills, lack of impulse control, attachment adjustment, and academic challenges. Identification is hindered by invisible stigma, family rules, and the child’s fears that no one will believe them. Availability and access to help is limited and decreases with poverty and other cultural factors. Children all have internalized protective and environmental factors that

RISE23: NADCP

George R Brown Convention Center 1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston, TX, United States

National Conference for all drug court professionals held yearly by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP). Mikala Meize-Bowers, PhD & Meghan R. Fitzgerald, PhD will be presenting on data and evaluation in therapeutic courts based on work started during their work with the Family Treatment Court grant