While mediation offers many parents an alternative to formal and often adversarial court processes, they may also present serious safety and parenting consequences for domestic violence survivors and their children. The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody offers this webinar to help advocates orient survivors to common custody mediation processes, make them aware of risks that mediation may pose, and suggest tangible ways to help survivors prepare for the mediation.
This webinar, presented by Jennifer Wyatt and Margaret Soukup, uses newly published resources that focus on using motivational interviewing skills to support behavior change in youth who are involved in juvenile drug treatment courts. These…
This webinar taught by Jacqueline van Wormer and James Puckett will help JDTC programs and staff understand JDTC client behavior through the lens of adolescent development, racism, trauma, and substance use. This webinar will familiarize…
Break from the Bench: What a judge needs to know about…Considerations for Cases Involving Self-Represented Litigants Experiencing Domestic Violence The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) invites you to the NCJFCJ’s Break from the…