Family and Youth Justice Programs

CFF Practice Academy: Capacity, Scale, Meeting needs with FTCs
2023-07-25 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
CFF’s Practice Academy this time around is focused on building census numbers/scale in your FTC. You can read more about this practice academy on the zoom registration link below.

NCSC: Family Centered Fridays "Creating User-Centered Courtrooms",
2023-06-30 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | virtual – register via link
There, NCSC’s Nathan Hall, Principal Court Management Consultant, and David Sayles, Senior Court Management Consultant, will lead a discussion on how trauma-informed design for court spaces can support user-centered court culture. David and Nathan will be joined by Nicole Ticknor and Kimberly Ackmann, Deputy Court Administrators with Illinois’ 17th Circuit (Winnebago County), to discuss their jurisdiction’s proposal for a new, trauma-informed Family Courts Center. Attendees will have the opportunity to view plans for trauma-informed courtrooms and court service areas, hear details of the design process, and learn some of the creative ways jurisdictions can begin to implement user-centered design principles at all levels of scale.

Embracing Recovery-Oriented Harm Reduction in Medication Assisted Treatment
2023-06-28 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is widely accepted as the most effective form of treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. MAT options have offered a pathway to recovery for many individuals who have found sustained, long-term recovery with the support of these medications and services. Despite this, MAT is often categorized as a form of harm reduction. In fact, MAT is known to provide many life-saving harm reduction benefits to individuals who use substances. So, which is it? A pathway to recovery or a form of harm reduction? In this training, attendees will explore how MAT can serve in both of these critical roles. Individuals working in MAT settings will learn how to harness the important benefits of harm reduction work while still offering opportunity and hope for recovery.

RISE23: NADCP
2023-06-26 08:00 - 2023-06-29 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | George R Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston, TX, 77010, 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

Incorporating the Family into Treatment and Recovery, Part 6: Healing Children of Parental Substance Use Disorders
2023-06-23 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
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 can be recognized and developed. Healing can begin with trauma-informed facilitators, often in educational support groups, who instill realistic hope by understanding and fostering children’s resiliencies.

Judicial Community of Practice (JCoP)
2023-06-21 12:00 - 13:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
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. Whether you’re new to the bench or have years of experience hearing child welfare cases, we invite you to participate in this exciting opportunity!
*Room opens at 12:00pm to provide judicial officers an informal opportunity to talk amongst themselves prior to the session. Session starts at 12:15pm.

Lactation and Substance Use: New Guidelines Training
2023-06-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 webinar will be recorded.
Certificates of completion will be emailed after completing a short online quiz.
Approved for 1 L-CERP for this presentation by the IBCLE.
Natalie Franz, MPH, is a Maternal and Child Health Data Communications Consultant at the Washington State Department of Health. At DOH, Natalie leads the development of clinical guidelines on lactation and substance use. She also leads efforts to improve how DOH shares maternal child health data. Her diverse work experience ranges from mental health crisis stabilization to perinatal mental health research to program evaluation. Natalie is interested in first relationships as a basis for health and well-being, developmental trauma prevention, and promoting patient voice & choice.
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lactation-and-substance-use-new-guidelines-tickets-579835994067

Attorney Academy on Reasonable & Active Efforts (Summer)
2023-06-14 08:00 - 2023-06-15 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
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, and families receive appropriate, tailored services or interventions to avoid unnecessary removals, reunify children with their families, and improve time to permanency.

Ethics and Boundaries in Treatment Court Roles
2023-06-13 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
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 webinar with Eric Strom, JD, PhD, LMHC as we learn about navigating complex roles on multidisciplinary teams.
1 hour of presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A.
1 CE credit will be offered
When: Jun 13, 2023 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Ethics and Boundaries in Treatment Court Roles Webinar recording:

National Family Treatment Court Idea Exchange
2023-06-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
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?

Incorporating the Family into Treatment and Recovery, Part 5: Celebrating Families!™ - Nurturing Family Resiliency and Healing
2023-06-02 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | virtual – register via link
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, parents with addiction, the non-using parent, and children’s caregivers or foster parents. Participants will learn about the distinctives and adaptions for Hispanic families and Native American communities. This webinar will also review the materials, training, and technical support available.

SAMHSA GAINS: Harm Reduction Practices in Treatment Court: What Fits and What Doesn't
2023-05-30 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | virtual – register via link
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 (on a validated assessment) or whose drug addiction threatens public safety has not been adequately addressed until now.
This thought-provoking webinar will encourage treatment courts to fully embrace life-saving harm reduction practices that are both effective with the treatment courts’ target population and compatible with the model.

National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts 2023 Annual Conference
2023-05-21 - 2023-05-24
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 slides for this talk is available here

Family-Centered Fridays - Plain Language
2023-05-19 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
In the third installment of the Family-Centered Fridays Series, Senior Court Management Consultant Lonni Summers will lead a discussion on NCSC’s Plain Language Glossary, a tool that presents plain language alternatives to legal terms that are not understandable to most people.
Attendees will have a hands-on opportunity to use the glossary, suggest new terms and share real-world examples

Continuing Upwards from the Summit
2023-05-09 14:00 - 2023-05-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | virtual – register via link
NCSC, the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State Court Administrators, and Casey Family Programs have organized this free, court improvement and child welfare virtual event.
The agenda and new materials will be available here as the event approaches: 2023 Upwards from the Summit virtual event materials | Powered by Box
Register via the link

Making the Connection: Improving the Referral Pathways to Family Treatment Court
2023-04-25 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
Virtual, Free webinar hosted by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and National Health Services Administration) use the link to register for this zoom event.

Trauma-Informed Care for Opioid Treatment
2023-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
This webinar, designed for SUD treatment professionals, will address Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment, including MAT/MOUD and evidence based practices for Trauma Informed Care in opioid treatment.
Presented by Tiara Reddick, MA, LPC, CSAC, and Kelly C. Smith, MS, LPC, NCC

Children's Justice Conference
2023-04-18 - 2023-04-19
The CJC provides core and advanced training and skill development for a child welfare and court professionals. This event will feature many speakers from Washington State and from the Family and Youth Justice Team. See the full agenda for details!
The registration list is full, but if you are already registered, please look out for the names of presenters from FYJP, and say hello if you see us!

NCSC Family Centered Fridays Webinar
2023-04-12 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | virtual – register via link
The National Center for State Courts has started hosting a family centered Fridays Webinar series to help courts gain tools and resources to make their courts more family centered.
