Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar discusses feelings of exhaustion, irritability, and dissatisfaction in the criminal justice field. In the criminal justice field, employees may experience compassion fatigue or the negative cost of caring. The work can be overwhelming and action-packed, leaving people feeling tired, scattered, or anxious. In this webinar, the presenters will address the issues and challenge the participants to support and maintain resilience so that participants can continue to do their work with care, energy, and compassion. 

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, this webinar discusses the growing concern across the United States for improving police and community responses to people with behavioral health needs. While some jurisdictions have established partnerships between their police departments and behavioral health system counterparts, many are still struggling to effectively develop cross-system responses that can benefit the people impacted most by these systems. This webinar will focus on the following resources that can be used to support these efforts through direct assistance, Web-based tools, and trainings:

• The Police Mental Health Self-Assessment Tool
• The Justice and Mental Health Partnership Support Center
• The Law Enforcement-Mental Health Collaboration Support Center

When: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this training introduces information and techniques law enforcement personnel need to safely and methodically collect and preserve digital evidence at a crime scene in a forensically sound manner. Topics include recognizing potential sources of digital evidence; planning and executing a digital evidence-based seizure; and the preservation, collection, documentation, and transfer of digital evidence.

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., PT

Hosted by the National Criminal Justice Training Center, this webinar discusses the opioid crisis and the flood of other drugs in many tribal communities across the nation. The webinar will review emerging drug trends such as fentanyl, fentanyl-laced pills, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, synthetic cannabinoids, and other chemicals. The presenters will also discuss specific challenges associated with vaping, butane hash oil, and cannabis edibles and will explore the issues these “new drug delivery systems” have caused many states and tribal communities. Participants will consider how particular drugs are designed and why the designs of these drugs are so popular, reviewing the stages of use, addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and the health and life-threatening dangers posed by the use of drugs. This webinar is intended specifically for Bureau of Justice Assistance tribal grantees, other tribal agencies, tribal communities, and criminal justice professionals and service providers who provide direct services to tribal communities. 

When: Tuesday and Wednesday, April 13–14, 2021
Time: 12:00 Noon – 4:00 p.m., CT

This Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published a new report assessing how domestic violent extremists (DVEs), motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States, posed an elevated threat to the homeland in 2021. Enduring DVE motivations pertaining to biases against minority populations and perceived government overreach will almost certainly continue to drive DVE radicalization and mobilization to violence. Newer sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some DVEs to try to engage in violence this year.