A reminder: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Justice Consortium and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges published the NCTSN Bench Card for the Trauma-Informed Judge. The project actually comprises two bench cards developed by judges, lawyers and behavioral health professionals.
The first offers a series of questions to help you, as a judge, gather information necessary to make good decisions for children at risk of traumatic stress disorders. The second is a sample addendum designed to be copied or scanned and attached to your orders for behavioral health assessments. It will help mental health professionals develop reports that are trauma in formed, admissible into evidence, and informative to you.These cards are part of a larger packet of materials about child and adolescent trauma available and downloadable from the NCTSN Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice System Resource Site and are best used with reference to those materials.
http://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/judge_bench_cards_final.pdf
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