CITA – State and Tribal Court Judges Training-December 10-11, 2015, at Beautiful Kiana Lodge – Presented in cooperation with National American Indian Court Judges Association and Casey Family Programs

Many Thanks to the incredible team that gathered for a beautiful training event that, we hope, will spur several types of innovation around WA State (and beyond).

We listened to expert Parent Allies discuss our system, where it works and where it needs to improve; learned about the role diet and health play in our ability to do our jobs, and families’ ability to engage and succeed; discussed the costs of inCivility and ways to promote Civil behavior in our court system; learned about acute and chronic Trauma, and how Responding to it means changing our perspective about families; and were introduced to the concepts, values, and process of Peacemaking as a potential leading-edge innovation that can create healing within our adversarial process.  We at CITA promise to continue to build on these concepts, and work to implement innovations along these lines.

The Team that made this happen:

• Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
  • Cindy Bricker, Sondra Hahn, Danielle Pugh-Markie
• Court Improvement Training Academy – CITA
  • Kelly Warner-King, Rob Wyman, Casey Leichter
  • with Special Guests:
    • Washington State Parent Allies Alise Hegle, Kimberly Mays, Jason Bragg, and Danielle Goodwin
    • Dr. Kristen Allott of Dynamic Brains Consulting
    • Tim Jaasko-Fisher of Roberts Fund
    • Tessa Keating
    • Robin Sigo of The Suquamish Nation
• Judge Timothy Connors, Presiding Judge, Washtenah County (Michigan) Juvenile Court
• National American Indian Court Judges Association
  • Nikki Borchardt Campbell – CEO
  • Hon. Cheryl Fairbanks – Univ of New Mexico School of Law
  • Brett Shelton – Native American Rights Foundation
• Casey Family Programs – Judicial Engagement Teams
  • Judge William Thorne (Ret.)

We had many other special guests, and a really engaged group of thoughtful and invested Judges, Commissioners, and FJCIP coordinators from around Washington State.  Materials and agendas are linked here.

CITA Dependency Court Model

Agenda Dec 2015 Dependency Training – final

ACEs Intro

CITA Retreat Dec 2015 – final ppt (Dr. Allott’s Presentation)

Optimize Your Brain Handout 2015

Monitoring Power Supply

After Three Days.final.hi-res

Civility PowerPoint 12-11-15

12-11-15 CITA Judges handout

Essential Components of Trauma-Informed Judicial Practice

SCARED Child

SCARED Parent

The Shift. Tribal Sovereignty and Peacemaking Courts – Hon. Cheryl Fairbanks ppt

Essential Components of Trauma-Informed Judicial Practice

Tribal Court Peacemaking – A Model for State Court – Judge Connors

Ann Arbor Observer Article

Michigan Bar Journal Article

Legal News – Peace Keeping Court

Inter-com Article – Judge Connors