From Lauren at tlpi.org Tue Feb 6 10:49:01 2018 From: Lauren at tlpi.org (Lauren van Schilfgaarde) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:49:01 +0000 Subject: [Tribal-drug-courts] Enter NADCP's Justice For All Contest to Win All-Inclusive Conference Package Message-ID: <97f01870ea0e4f56a51400a7cfa43714@MBX082-W2-CO-2.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/494a051b4995fd5f4d9052004/images/0aa5556a-2d87-49db-841f-bbd7e9e63466.jpg] Enter NADCP's Justice For All Contest Winners receive all-inclusive conference package (Family Drug Courts are highly encouraged to participate) Each year, the NADCP Annual Training Conference offers treatment court professionals critical instruction on the latest research and best practices. This year, NADCP wants to hear about how you and your team incorporate what you learn at the conference to improve your program. NADCP is excited to announce the Justice For All contest. Here's how it works: Click here and fill out a short questionnaire describing how you improved your program by incorporating information you learned at the 2017 NADCP Conference. NADCP will select up to two courts (and up to two people per court team) to attend the 2018 conference in Houston, Texas. Winning teams will receive an all-inclusive conference package and participate in a session to share their experience. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 23 at 2:00 p.m. PST or 5:00 p.m. EST. Contest winners receive up to two 2018 conference registrations (up to a $1,490 value); up to two roundtrip airfares (not to exceed $700 per airfare - up to a $1,400 value); up to two hotel rooms for five nights in Houston, Texas (up to a $1,500 value). For questions, contact Kristen Deutsch at 571-384-1871 or kdeutsch at allrise.org. Click here to enter the contest! 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URL: From Lauren at tlpi.org Tue Feb 6 18:43:10 2018 From: Lauren at tlpi.org (Lauren van Schilfgaarde) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 00:43:10 +0000 Subject: [Tribal-drug-courts] Children's Bureau: Tribal Court Improvement Program Grant Message-ID: Tribal Court Improvement Program HHS-2018-ACF-ACYF-CS-1348 ________________________________ Summary Funding Opportunity Title: Tribal Court Improvement Program Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2018-ACF-ACYF-CS-1348 Program Office: Children's Bureau Funding Type: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Announcement Type: Initial CFDA: 93.586 Post Date: 02/06/2018 Application Due Date: 04/09/2018 ________________________________ Description The Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau announces the availability of awards to provide tribes and tribal consortia the opportunity to compete for grants to enable tribal courts to design and implement projects and/or activities to assess, expand, or enhance the effectiveness of tribal courts and/or legal representation in cases related to child welfare, family preservation, family reunification, guardianship, and adoption. In doing this work, grantees are required to engage in and demonstrate "meaningful, ongoing collaboration" with the tribal social service agencies. Tribal Court Improvement Project (TCIP) funds may be used to: (1) Conduct assessments of how tribal courts (including courts for tribal consortia) handle child welfare proceedings; (2) Implement changes to address the results of court assessments; (3) Ensure that the safety, permanence, and well-being needs of children are met in a timely and complete manner; and (4) Continuously improve the quality of court hearings and legal representation, including engagement of parties, through training and efforts to increase substantive and procedural justice. Download Announcement PDF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lauren at tlpi.org Wed Feb 21 11:55:33 2018 From: Lauren at tlpi.org (Lauren van Schilfgaarde) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:55:33 +0000 Subject: [Tribal-drug-courts] Grand Traverse Band RFP: Healing to Wellness Court Evaluator Message-ID: Matthew L.M. Fletcher posted: "Here: 2018.02.19 RFP Evaluator (final)" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Turtle Talk [http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/c50cab679382a2fa46f5d3b4da6cee82?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Femails%2Fblavatar.png] Grand Traverse Band RFP: Healing to Wellness Court Evaluator by Matthew L.M. Fletcher Here: 2018.02.19 RFP Evaluator (final) Matthew L.M. Fletcher | February 21, 2018 at 1:41 pm | Tags: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, healing to wellness court, jobs | Categories: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Michigan Indian, tribal courts | URL: https://wp.me/p7zky-ign Comment See all comments Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Turtle Talk. 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URL: From Lauren at tlpi.org Wed Feb 21 13:55:14 2018 From: Lauren at tlpi.org (Lauren van Schilfgaarde) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:55:14 +0000 Subject: [Tribal-drug-courts] 2/27 NCJFCJ Briefing - Judges Helping Families Impacted by the Opioid Crisis In-Reply-To: <86821c086e7b48fbb148c51f273f2d83@MBX082-W2-CO-4.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET> References: <86821c086e7b48fbb148c51f273f2d83@MBX082-W2-CO-4.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET> Message-ID: <6228f5b45e1d40fd9c04679dd26bb3f7@MBX082-W2-CO-2.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET> [Inline image 1] [Inline image 7] [Inline image 5] Judges Helping Families Impacted by the Opioid Crisis Congressional Briefing Tuesday, February 27, 2018 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CVC 217, Congressional Meeting Room South Capitol Visitor Center Panelists Moderated by NCJFCJ President Judge Anthony Capizzi, Montgomery County Juvenile Court, Dayton, Ohio Chief Judge Richard Blake, Hoopa Valley and Redding Rancheria Tribal Courts, California Judge Ramona Gonzalez, La Crosse County Circuit Court, La Crosse, Wisconsin Judge Ernestine Gray, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, New Orleans, Louisiana Judge Warner Kennon, Sr., Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit Juvenile Court, Columbus, Georgia Judge Egan Walker, Washoe County District Court, Reno, Nevada Please click here to RSVP. The growing epidemic of opioids has been declared a national emergency. Many experts say there is no immediate end in sight for this epidemic. It is critical that courts and communities are properly resourced and educated and collaborate to address this public health crisis. A case that comes before a juvenile or family court judge is never as simple as it appears and there is never one solution for the children and families involved in the justice system. Sharing real stories from the bench and discussing the families that come before them, the panel of judges will present a case scenario and video clips involving children and families impacted by opioid abuse and how through judicial leadership and with specialized judicial education and resources the family is on the road to recovery. To read more about the NCJFCJ's work and resources for judges and the role of the judge on combating the opioid crisis, click here. 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Grantees are required to contact their OVW program specialist to get approval and ensure that a GAN is issued. A GAN must be completed before grantees commit any funds related to attending this conference. - JFF - Campus - TSAP - Rural - State Coalitions - Consolidated Youth - Tribal Jurisdiction STOP grantees do not have to contact their program manager for prior approval. STOP sub-grantees need approval from their STOP State Administrator. The reference number for this conference is OVW-2018-MU-017. This number must be used by grantees when requesting approval via a GAN or in their ?memo to the file? Please see attached brochure for more information about this workshop, including registration form and agenda. -- This message was sent to lauren at tlpi.org by newsletter at niwrc.org To forward this message, please do not use the forward button of your email application, because this message was made specifically for you only. Instead use the forward page in our newsletter system. 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Credit Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press In an effort to encourage new treatments for opioid addiction, the Food and Drug Administration plans to begin permitting pharmaceutical companies to sell medications that help temper cravings, even if they don't fully stop addiction. The change is part of a wider effort to expand access to so-called medication-assisted treatment, or MAT. The agency will issue draft guidelines in the next few weeks. A senior agency official provided details of the proposal to The New York Times. The new approach was signaled Saturday by the health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, in remarks to the National Governors Association. Mr. Azar said the agency intended "to correct a misconception that patients must achieve total abstinence in order for MAT to be considered effective." While the Trump administration has generally supported medication-assisted treatment, Mr. Azar's predecessor, Tom Price, was not completely on board with it. Mr. Price caused an uproar among treatment experts when he dismissed some medications that reduce cravings through synthetic opioids last spring as substituting one opioid for another. He subsequently walked back those comments, saying officials should be open to a broad range of treatment options. Mr. Azar, who took office late last month, said he would work to reduce the stigma associated with addiction and addiction therapy, and would not treat it as a moral failing. The opioid epidemic is considered the most unrelenting drug crisis in United States history. In 2016, roughly 64,000 people were killed by opioid-related overdoses, including from prescription painkillers and heroin. Noting federal data showing that only one-third of specialty substance abuse treatment programs offer medication-assisted treatment, Mr. Azar said, "We want to raise that number - in fact, it will be nigh impossible to turn the tide on this epidemic without doing so." Mr. Azar's comments echo those of the F.D.A. chief, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who has made battling opioid abuse a priority for his agency. Dr. Gottlieb has moved to reduce opioid prescriptions by doctors and dentists and to promote more medication-assisted treatment, defined as drugs used to stabilize brain chemistry, reduce or block the euphoric effects of opioids, relieve physiological cravings, and normalize body functions. The F.D.A. has approved three drugs for opioid treatment - buprenorphine (often known by the brand name Suboxone), methadone and naltrexone (known by the brand name Vivitrol) - and says they are safe and effective combined with counseling and other support. But the agency said it would soon publish two guidances, recommendations for drugmakers, on the issue. One encourages the development of new, longer-acting formulations of existing drugs for opioid treatment. The other, which was described in detail to The Times, said new drugs would be eligible for approval that don't end addiction but help with aspects of it, such as cravings, or overdoses, with the goal remaining complete abstinence. "We will permit an endpoint that shows substantial reductions but does not require the patient to be totally clean at every visit if the measurements are fairly frequent," a senior F.D.A. official said. The official also said the F.D.A. was seeking medications that can help patients function better and can be helpful when used in combination with therapy and other social support, even if on their own the medications don't completely end addiction. Under the new guidelines, patients and their families will have input in assessing how useful a drug is. "You could envision different MATs where the different treatments are addressing different aspects of what underlies the addiction, and helping people lead productive lives free from addiction to opioids, even in situations where they still might require replacement therapy," the official said. Addiction experts were cautious in their praise of the plan, which should be released in March. "The F.D.A. should keep companies focused on major clinical improvement for patients," said Yngvild Olsen,medical director of the Institutes for Behavior Resources in Baltimore. "A more thoughtful approach to measuring meaningful clinical improvement could expand treatment options, but there is a danger; subjective outcomes that are neither here nor there could encourage the development of products of questionable value." And Dr. Andrew Kolodny, a director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University, said that the F.D.A. was smart to look for new treatments but that the biggest problem now in treatment wasn't lack of effective medication, but lack of access. "We already have an effective treatment that people aren't getting access to," he said. "The primary challenge is getting it to people." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 57175 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: