The Tribal Law and Policy Institute has partnered with the following United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance TA providers on providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) Program Area 3 Tribal Justice Systems grantees under our Tribal Courts, Tribal Justice Systems, and Intergovernmental Collaboration Project:
- National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
- National American Indian Court Judges Association
- Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP)
- The Center for Justice Innovation
- Tribal Judicial Institute, University of North Dakota School of Law
National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
The National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) is one of the leading national trainers and educators in law enforcement today. Through its criminal justice centers and programs it has been delivering best-practice training and technical assistance since 1983. The programs implemented through FVTC encompass federally funded training and technical assistance programs and services, contract and cost recovery training. Each operation within FVTC specializes in a particular set of issues critical to the criminal justice field. The training and technical assistance programs are dedicated to improving the knowledge, skills, capability, capacity, and leadership potential of our nation’s criminal justice professionals and systems.
Contact Information:
Fox Valley Technical College,
National Criminal Justice Training Center
1825 N. Bluemound Drive
Appleton, WI 54914
Phone (888) 370-1752
Fax (920) 831-5400
Email:Â info@ncjtc.org
Web:Â ncjtc.fvtc.edu
Resources: ncjtc.fvtc.edu/search-results?content=Resources
National American Indian Court Judges Association
National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) is a national voluntary association of Tribal court judges. NAICJA is a non-profit corporation established in 1969. NAICJA is primarily devoted to the support of American Indian and Alaska Native justice systems through education, information sharing, and advocacy. The mission of the NAICJA, as a national representative membership organization, is to strengthen and enhance Tribal justice systems.
Contact Information:
National American Indian Court Judges Association1942 Broadway
Suite 510
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303.449.4112
Fax: 303.449.4038
Email:Â info@naicja.org
Web:Â www.naicja.org
Publications: https://www.naicja.org/publications/
Ansley Sherman
Program Attorney
Email: Ansley@naicja.org
Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP)
The Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc., (RurAL CAP), founded in 1965, is a private, statewide, nonprofit organization working to improve the quality of life for low-income Alaskans. Operating with a deep respect for all people, their programs in housing, early childhood education, and health and well-being serve to alleviate the root causes of poverty. RurAL CAP is on the leading edge of delivering innovative, community-driven solutions in response to Alaska’s most challenging needs while supporting vulnerable individuals and communities statewide. Through their Training and Technical Assistance programs, rural communities have access to various resources that support the development and enhancement of Tribal justice systems, juvenile justice programs, and Tribal victim services. Their Resource Basket Training and Technical Assistance Center helps rural communities support healthy, successful, and culturally connected Alaska Native youth by offering training, resources, technical assistance, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Their Alaska Tribal Justice Resource Center supports the delivery of statewide Training and Technical Assistance services to Tribes and Tribal organizations seeking to develop or enhance their respective Tribal justice systems. They provide access to statewide nonprofit, public, and Tribal relationships, in addition to nationwide partnerships, affiliations, and services as needed. Their Alaska Tribal Victim Services Program provides Training & Technical Assistance to Tribes receiving grant funding from the Denali Commission to assess needs, plan for, and implement services supporting victims of crime.
Contact Information:
Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP)
731 E 8th Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Phone: 907.279.2511 (Toll-Free within Alaska Only:Â 800.478.7227)
Fax: 907.278.2309Email:Â info@ruralcap.org
Email:Â jmillett@ruralcap.org
Web:Â ruralcap.org
Resources: atjrc.org/resources/
Joie Millet
Community Development Program Director
The Center for Justice Innovation
The Center for Justice Innovation is a non-profit think tank dedicated to justice system reform. Since 1993, the Center has helped design and implement strategies for improving the performance of justice systems nationally and internationally. The Center currently operates more than a dozen demonstration projects, each of which is experimenting with new solutions to difficult problems like addiction, mental illness, delinquency, domestic violence, and community disorder. What unites all of these projects is an underlying philosophy known as problem-solving justice. This is the idea that the justice system should do more than simply process cases, it should actively seek to address the problems that bring people to court. The Center’s Tribal Justice Exchange provides technical assistance to Tribal communities seeking to develop or enhance their Tribal court systems. Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Tribal Courts Assistance Program, the Tribal Justice Exchange has three major
Goals
- Ensuring that Tribal communities have access to training and ongoing technical assistance about problem-solving community-based practices.
- Encouraging formal collaborations between traditional Tribal justice systems and state and local court systems.
- Identifying and disseminating best practices developed in Indian Country that could help strengthen public safety initiatives elsewhere in the United States.
The Tribal Justice Exchange offers a range of services designed to meet these goals.
Contact Information:
Center for Justice Innovation
520 8th Avenue, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (646) 386-3100
Web:Â www.innovatingjustice.org/areas-of-focus/tribal-justice
Publications: innovatingjustice.org/publications
Adelle Fontanet-Torres
Director, Tribal Justice Exchange
Tribal Judicial Institute, University of North Dakota School of Law
The University of North Dakota (UND) School of Law established the Tribal Judicial Institute (TJI) in 1993 with an award from a private foundation, to provide training and technical assistance to twenty Tribal courts in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. The University of North Dakota School of Law is a leader amidst law schools in the advancement of Tribal legal studies through established curricula and through the implementation of an Indian Law Certificate Program that is offered to J.D. candidates. Since its inception and with the support of the School of Law, the Institute has expanded to become a national institute and has conducted over 500 local, regional and national training sessions. In 1998, the Institute became one of the initial grantees of the Bureau of Justice Assistance under BJA’s Tribal Court Assistance Program (TCAP).
In 2001, the Institute was asked by BJA to coordinate the Tribal Court Assistance Program and since that time has served as the primary technical assistance provider to the over 250 Indian Tribes that have received funding under the Tribal Court Assistance Project. The TCAP program was conceived under DOJ’s Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative and its primary focus has been assuring safety for native communities by providing funding to Indian Tribes to improve the collaboration between law enforcement and the courts and to assist local Tribal initiatives to respond to crime in Indian Country. Under the TCAP program the Institute helped coordinate two “Listening” conferences where Tribal leaders in Alaska and the lower 48 were able to come together with federal and state policy makers and express their concerns about crime in their communities. In addition the Tribal Judicial Institute has actively collaborated with several BJA funded agencies to offer training opportunities on indigenous justice programs and methodology.
Contact Information:
University of North Dakota School of Law,
Tribal Judicial Institute
215 Centennial Drive, Stop 9003
Grand Forks, ND 58202
Phone: (701) 777-6192
Fax: (701) 777/0178
Email:Â jones@law.und.edu
Web:Â law.und.edu/npilc/tji/index.html
Publications:law.und.edu/npilc/tji/resources.html
BJ Jones
Executive Director
Additional Collaborative Organizations:
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute has partnered with the following United States Department of Justice,  Bureau of Justice Assistance TA providers on the Walking on Common Ground (Tribal-State Federal Intergovernmental Collaborations) project.
American Probation and Parole Association
The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) is an international membership association representing approximately 40,000 pretrial, probation, parole and community-based corrections personnel, in both criminal and juvenile justice systems. Membership comes from federal, state/provincial, Tribal and local jurisdictions as well as the private sector. APPA provides individuals and agencies with the most current information on strategies, programs, and approaches to supervising diverse caseloads, facilitating change among the individuals being supervised, and being a proactive prevention/intervention partner in community coalitions. APPA also offers a variety of special issue committees designed to identify and discuss the emerging needs of the field, including gender, diversity, crime victims, technology, juvenile justice, and Tribal committees.
Contact Information:
American Probation and Parole Association
P.O. Box 11910
Lexington, KY 40578-1910
Phone (859) 244-8015
Email: mdyea@csg.org
Web: www.appa-net.org
Mark A. Dyea
Tribal Grants Manager
National Center for State Courts
National Center for State Courts is the organization courts turn to for authoritative knowledge and information, because its efforts are directed by collaborative work with the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State Court Administrators, and other associations of judicial leaders. Consequently, NCSC is able to return expertise to the courts in a variety of forms – from Web resources to hands-on assistance. State assessments pay for the distribution of information from knowledge analysts and online sources, available free of charge to state trial and appellate courts and their administrative offices. To take advantage of tailored benefits, judges and court administrators can register for educational courses or contract with NCSC researchers and consultants for evaluation, assessment, and implementation of court improvement tools and methods. The National Center for State Courts is an independent, nonprofit court improvement organization founded at the urging of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren E. Burger. He envisioned NCSC as a clearinghouse for research information and comparative data to support improvement in judicial administration in state courts
Contact Information:
National Center for State Courts
300 Newport Avenue
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Phone: (757) 259-1593
Fax: (757) 564-2117
Web: www.ncsc.org
National Congress of American Indians
Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most representative national Indian organization. NCAI was initially formed as a national body to combat the federal government’s detrimental policies of termination and assimilation against Tribes, and to this day, it remains steadfast in its mission to protect and enhance Tribal sovereignty. NCAI serves to secure for Indian peoples and their descendants the rights and benefits to which they are entitled; to enlighten the public toward a better understanding of Indian people; to preserve rights under Indian treaties or agreements with the United States; and to promote the common welfare of American Indians and Alaska Natives. It does so by hosting forums to debate and deliberate on pressing political issues and providing Tribes with a platform in the nation’s capitol from which their voices can be heard. The NCAI, largely through its 501(c)(3) affiliate the NCAI Fund, has been working for over 10 years to promote intergovernmental cooperation between states and Tribes, first through a State-Tribal Relations Project in partnership with the National Conference of State Legislators, and then through its Tribal-State Collaboration and Justice Capacity Building Project with the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA).
Contact Information:
National Congress of American Indians
1516 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202)466-7767
Fax: (202) 466-7797
Email: ncai@ncai.org
Web: www.ncai.org
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges‘ (NCJFCJ’s) vision is to contribute to a society in which every family and child has access to fair, equal, effective, and timely justice. Since its founding in 1937 by a group of judges dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the nation’s juvenile courts, NCJFCJ has pursued a mission to improve court and system practice and raise awareness of the core issues that touch the lives of many of our nation’s children and families. With the adoption and implementation of a governance structure that creates an expectation that diversity run through all of the Council’s work, the NCJFCJ works to partner with Tribal courts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect. The NCJFCJ Board of Trustees believes that Tribal courts and state courts are equal and parallel systems of justice. The NCJFCJ includes Tribal organization’s and members’ insight and guidance on many levels including leadership, advisory committees, and embedding cultural components in all of NCJFCJ’s educational opportunities. The NCJFCJ is honored to work with a strong group of Tribal judicial leaders to learn, to listen, to give acknowledgment, and to engage in courageous conversations to strategically approach meaningful and ongoing engagement with Tribes.
Contact Information:
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
P.O. Box 8970
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89507
Phone: (775) 327-5303
Fax: (775) 327-5306
Web: www.ncjfcj.org
National Criminal Justice Association
Based in Washington, D.C., the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) is a nonprofit membership organization representing state, Tribal and local governments on crime prevention and crime control issues. Its members represent all facets of the criminal and juvenile justice community, from law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, defense, courts, victim-witness services and educational institutions to federal, state and local elected officials. The NCJA is a national voice in shaping and implementing criminal justice policy since its founding in 1971. As the representative of state, Tribal and local criminal and juvenile justice practitioners, the NCJA works to promote a balanced approach to communities’ complex public safety and criminal and juvenile justice system problems. The NCJA recognizes the importance of interrelationships among criminal and juvenile justice agencies and between these agencies and the community and the strong, steady advocacy necessary to achieve comprehensive planning and policy coordination goals.
Contact Information:
The National Criminal Justice Association
720 7th Street, NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 628-8550
Fax: (202) 448-1723