Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Intergovernmental Collaboration

Friday, July 16, 2021

11:00am PT | 12:00pm MT | 1:00pm CT | 2:00pm ET

Tribal-State Collaboration in Drug Courts

This webinar will explore ways in which tribes have experimented with their neighbors and strategies for building collaborative infrastructures, as discussed in a new TLPI publication – Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Intergovernmental Collaboration. The maze of jurisdiction often means that tribes are with limited authority to meaningfully serve their communities. But in partnership, tribal and state jurisdictions can leverage their resources, ensure holistic case planning, and provide restorative accountability. The Healing to Wellness Court, an intentional deviation from the compartmentalized, adversarial, offense-centric approach, provides an apt opportunity for innovation in collaboration. Needs like housing, social services, vocational training, child care, physical and mental health treatment, can be addressed by both jurisdictions. Court can negotiate supervision, defense counsel, conditions of probation, and other legal motivations.

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Presented by:

Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Director, Tribal Legal Development Clinic, UCLA School of Law