Substance Abuse Prevention/Treatment Providers

The 2023 Police, Treatment, and Community (PTACC) Deflection and Pre-Arrest Diversion Training Summit was held in Seattle, Washington on October 28-November 1, 2024. Over 400 people attended the summit, including COSSUP grantees. Attendees and presenters included law enforcement officers and other first responders, behavioral health practitioners, community-based service providers, deflection program managers, researchers, and officials from the local, state, and national levels.

TLPI's Tribal Justice TTA project includes Objective 6: Conduct THWC Survey of the Field (Wellness Court Strengths and Needs Assessment) and publish findings with associated tasks to prepare, disseminate, analyze, and publish results. Planning meetings occurred this reporting period to determine what measures need to be included and ensure this assessment is not a duplication of other efforts in the field. A draft has been completed.

These calls are an opportunity for grantees to check-in with us at CHJ, meet other grantees, and learn about topics related to deflection and pre-arrest diversion initiatives. Invited are CHJ's open FY19-23 deflection and pre-arrest diversion grantees. After a brief introduction to the CHJ team and our TTA support, we were joined by two presenters, one from fellow COSSUP TTA provider, the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) and another, Captain Kevin Hunter, from the Fort Wayne police department.

TLPI's Tribal Justice TTA project includes Objective 5: Develop publications with Task 5.1 to Develop or update four publications. Significant progress was made this reporting period for the first update to the THWC: Tribal Ten Key Components. Work on 3 additional updated or new resources will continue next reporting period.

Over the past six (6) months, the IACP tracked 104 resource downloads across the CRIT informational websites we maintain.

These newsletters are distributed by email at the beginning of every month and highlight upcoming CHJ grantee cohort events (like office hours, quarterly and focus area calls) and provide new resources, or recordings and resources that were mentioned on previous cohort calls. These newsletters also include products or upcoming events from COSSUP and its other TTA providers, and relevant federal resources.

White Earth is a FY24 CTAS PA 3 grantee. TTA Coach/Wellness Court Legal Specialist Jacob Metoxen set up an introductory call with Lori Thompson, Court Administrator for the White Earth Tribal Court. Local manuals from the courts White Earth is involved in with the state were shared. Wellness Court Specialist Angie Juárez-Monger will meet in-person with Gabriela Hanebuth and Jennifer Stangel who are on the HWC team at the New Grantee Conference in January 2025. Communication will continue next reporting period.

CHJ Office Hours take place every 3rd Friday of the month. These Office Hours are meant for sites to come and ask any questions or concerns that they may have. There will be members of the CHJ team, with appearances from various subject matter experts or other COSSUP TTA providers, present for the duration of the call to assist with any topics/questions that are brought up. Any site can join throughout the hour to speak with the CHJ team.

CHJ Office Hours take place every 3rd Friday of the month. These Office Hours are meant for sites to come and ask any questions or concerns that they may have. There will be members of the CHJ team, with appearances from various subject matter experts or other COSSUP TTA providers, present for the duration of the call to assist with any topics/questions that are brought up. Any site can join throughout the hour to speak with the CHJ team.

Roundtable exploring acquired brain injury (ABI) in police crisis response hosted at IACP 2024 annual conference.