Responding to Violence in Tribal Communities
Conference and Roundtable
February 24-26, 2025
Reno, Nevada
This free event has been approved by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
About This Conference:
The conference will provide Tribal justice system officials with recent legal updates and information to support the development of violent crime responses. The conference will highlight strategies to improve violent crime responses through multi-disciplinary and collaborative approaches. The conference will begin on Monday February 24, 2025 at 8:00am and will conclude on Wednesday February 26, 2024 at 12:00pm. The final day of the conference will include a facilitated roundtable discussion giving participants an opportunity to discuss new programs in their respective Tribal communities while also providing opportunities to highlight ongoing and/or unmet needs that may be hindering Tribal capacity to implement violent crimes responses.
Conference Session Will Include:
- Criminal jurisdiction and arrest authority updates to include an examination of the VAWA special Tribal criminal jurisdiction, and key cases like Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta and United States v. Cooley
- Vicarious Trauma responses in Tribal justice system professionals
- Community-Based Strategies to prevent and address violence in Tribal communities
- Data-Driven Approaches to violent crimes
- Competency issues in Tribal criminal proceedings
- Coordinated Community responses to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) cases
- Building Capacity to combat drug trafficking in Tribal communities
- Post-Adjudication supervision of violent offenders through Tribal reentry and probation programs
Roundtables
Roundtable topics will include discussions on the types of violence occurring in Tribal communities, Tribal codes to support violent crime responses, jurisdictional issues, and community responses to violence. As a participant you will be invited to share your professional experiences in addressing violent crimes and measures taken by your Tribal community to prevent and/or address violent crimes. The overall goal of the roundtable will be to provide a forum for Tribal justice system professionals to discuss issues pertaining to violence, needs of Tribal justice systems, and resources or opportunities to improve violent crime response
Specific topics to be discussed will include:
- Types of violence occurring in your Tribal community
- Strategies, programs, resources, or services that have been developed to respond to crimes of violence, including innovative or culturally based programs
- Unmet needs of Tribal justice system professionals that are or may be hindering violent crime responses or prevention
- Any existing or necessary collaborations that may aide in developing effective response to violent crime in a Tribal community
Who Should Attend?
- Affiliates of federally recognized tribes working in tribal justice systems including tribal leaders, tribal court judges, tribal prosecutors and attorneys, probation and reentry providers, and other tribal justice system officials.
- BJA-funded grantees may use existing travel funds in their grant budget to cover the costs to attend this conference. Please contact your BJA Grant Manager if you need to reallocate grant funds to cover these costs.
Conference Registration – FREE
This event is free for all participants. However, each participant is responsible for their own travel costs. To register for this event, click here.
Venue and Lodging
Peppermill Resort Spa Casino
2707 South Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada
(866) 821 9996
https://www.peppermillreno.com/
Book direct by clicking here.
A hotel room block has been established for this event. Please reference the group code GTJI225 when making reservations by telephone.
Cutoff date for hotel reservations is Monday, February 10, 2025 at 5pm PT.
Link to Conference Agenda
For the full conference agenda please visit the following link: https://law.und.edu/npilc/tji/news-events.html
For information or questions about this event please contact a Tribal Judicial Institute Staff Member:
Lynette Morin
TJI Project Coordinator
Lynette.Morin@UND.edu
Charisse Abbie
TJI Training Coordinator
Charisse.Abbie@UND.edu
This project was supported by Grant No. 2019-IC-BX-K003 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.