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Alert: Training events shifted to online mode.
RurAL CAP staff and partners offer professional training for youth serving professionals, volunteers, and supportive adults. We host several training events each year and offer travel scholarships pending funding availability.
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What We Do
The Resource Basket’s Training and Technical Assistance can help you through:
- Access to a network of youth-serving partners and tribal organizations
- Online training/resources
- Phone/web consultation
- Statewide/regional training
- Community-based training and technical assistance (as funding allows)
About our Webinars
Our webinars feature Alaska-based presenters sharing their expertise and best-practices for working with and supporting Alaska’s youth in strength-based ways. Trainings are presented for adults working or volunteering with youth, except where noted.
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WHO WE SERVE
Our Audience
- Tribal Youth programs
- Youth-serving providers
- Volunteers
- Health educators
- Parents
- Others working with youth
September 2020 (Webinars)
Due to COVID, all trainings are done in virtual mode
Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives
Virtual Consultation
- EVENT HAS PASSED
- First Session: September 10, 2020
- Second Session: September 14, 2020
Time: 9:30 am – 1:00 pm Alaska Time/1:30 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern Time
On November 26, 2019, President Trump signed Executive Order 13898, forming the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Task Force Co-Chairs are Attorney General William P. Barr and Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt; the Co-Chair Designees are Katie Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice, and Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior. The Task Force aims to enhance the operation of the criminal justice system and address the legitimate concerns of American Indian and Alaska Native communities regarding missing and murdered people, particularly missing and murdered women and girls.
If you’d like to request a recording of the session, please email Operation Lady Justice.
10th Annual Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Enhancement Training
September 28 – October 2, 2020
A 5-day virtual event: Time TBA
The Enhancement Training focuses upon tribal issues, including jurisdictional and legal issues unique to Indian country; the incorporation of custom and tradition into the phases, case management, treatment curriculums, and tangential services; and the peer-to-peer sharing of successful Healing to Wellness Courts models in operations. Training topics will cover the adult criminal, juvenile
delinquency, family dependency, DWI/DUI, and veterans models.
October 2020 (Webinars)
Due to COVID, all trainings are done in virtual mode
Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Organizations
October 6, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Alaska Time
This webinar is the second in a series of three webinars and focuses on defining trauma-informed practices and incorporating them in the systems that care for or interact with children and youth that have experienced trauma. This webinar will discuss the framework for systems change that incorporates trauma-informed decision-making and responses by organizations that serve children and youth that have experienced trauma.
NAICJA 51st Annual National Tribal Judicial and Court Personnel VIRTUAL Conference
October 20-22, 2020
Time TBA
The virtual conference will span three days with morning plenaries and afternoon concurrent breakout sessions. Each session is one hour, and attendees are only asked to commit to four hours per day. Session topics will focus on three main training tracks: Lessons from COVID-19, Resources for Court Clerks and Legal and Judicial Skills. Attendees will also have opportunities to network with colleagues and make new connections during evening social events, including a silent auction. We are also in the process of applying for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits.
The 15th Annual Government-to-Government Violence Against Women Tribal Consultation
October 27-30, 2020
The Mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), a component of the United States Department of Justice, is to provide federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
We are honored to invite your participation in the 15th annual Government-to-Government Violence Against Women Tribal Consultation, through four afternoon sessions conducted online via a virtual platform. OVW’s purpose is to solicit recommendations from tribal leaders on the following three topics:
- Enhancing the safety of American Indian and Alaska Native women from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking;
- Strengthening the federal response to the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking; and,
- Administering funds and programs for tribal governments established by the 1994 Violence Against Women Act and subsequent legislation.
Webinar Series: Transforming Schools Trauma Engaged Practice
2020 Alaska School Health & Wellness Institute
Pivoting to weekly Tuesday online trainings:
- Sep 22, 2020 03:30 PM
- Sep 29, 2020 03:30 PM
- Oct 6, 2020 03:30 PM
- Oct 13, 2020 03:30 PM
- Oct 20, 2020 03:30 PM
- Oct 27, 2020 03:30 PM
The 2020 Alaska School Health and Wellness Institute (SHWI) will also have a different look this year. Instead of a face to face meeting in October, we will be working to include the many important topics usually covered by the SHWI into the many on-line training opportunities related to the COVID-19 response happening throughout the fall. We will reassess in January whether a face to face conference in the spring is possible and update the website at that time.
Read more about the series on Transforming Schools – Trauma Engaged Schools Toolkit below.
Falmouth Institute
Falmouth Institute is best known for its comprehensive training services. There are great opportunities to take part in their virtual sessions related to tribal courts and administrative grant managements.
Success Stories
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