State and Tribal Courts
The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape of collaboration between state and tribal justice systems, detailing the history, barriers to effective cooperation, and promising recent developments in the field.
Tribal Court CASA: A Guide to Program Development
This manual is designed as a guide to help tribal courts through the initial steps of developing a Tribal Court CASA program and to assist in the early phases of program operation.
Promising Strategies: Tribal-State Court Relations
This publication spotlights some of the most successful strategies and programs from judges' organizations, individual court systems, state leadership, and court improvement organizations to navigate the complicated relationship between tribal and state courts.
Meaningful and Ongoing Engagement of Tribes and State Courts in Child Protection
This presentation developed by the National Center for State Courts discusses engagement and collaboration between state and tribal courts with considerations regarding ICWA, technology, training, and improvement.
A Guide for Tribal Court Law Clerks and Judges
This guide is designed for law clerks working in Indian Country and provides information on tribal courts, benefits and considerations for clerk positions, and a clerk's role in the court. It also provides suggestions for judges on how to best ...read more
Healthy & Empowered Youth: A Positive Youth Development Program for Native Youth
This article describes an evaluation of a school and community based positive youth development program for American Indian and Alaska Native high school students in Oregon.
Youth Power: a Guide to Community Organizing
This youth community organizing guide describes how to work with youth to build the skills needed to make change in their community through a youth development framework. It includes 15 lessons as well as suggested forms, activities, and resources.
Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change
This paper describes the process of engaging youth in community work and building capacity of organizations and communities to ensure young people understand the responsibility and resources to create positive change in their community.
Our Identities as Civic Power: 2017 State of Native Youth Report
This report reviews issues relevant to American Indian and Alaska Native youth, systems they are involved in, and topics like education, jobs, land, and sacred sites.
Native American Youth 101
This review developed by the Center for Native American Youth provides information on the historical context and current status of Indian Country and Native American Youth and youth priorities to consider.
Truancy Prevention Efforts in School-Community Partnerships
This brief by Safe Schools Healthy Students discusses definitions and extent of truancy, risk factors, past approaches, effective approaches, examples of innovative approaches, economic consequences of truancy, and examples of truancy reduction approaches from Safe Schools/Healthy Students sites.
Rural Dropout Prevention Issues & Solutions
This guide provides a wealth of information on designing and implementing a successful dropout prevention initiative in a rural school environment. In addition to the evidence-based research noted in the publication, it offers suggestions and ideas drawn from practitioner-based experiences ...read moreDocument
