The Impact of Brain Injury on Justice-Involved Youth

:A lifetime history of brain injury can result in impairments in physical, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning. This session will discuss the impact of brain injury on the juvenile justice system.

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Credit General:1.0

Tag(s) Guardian ad Litem

Description

Nebraska MCLE #241584, 1.0 CLE Hours (OnDemand credit)

A lifetime history of brain injury can result in impairments in physical, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning. This session will discuss the impact of brain injury on the juvenile justice system.

Individuals living with brain injury often experience difficulties such as:

Problems reading social cues or regulating emotion and behavior can make a person appear intolerant or belligerent.
Having trouble with organizing or initiating daily activities as the result of impaired executive functioning is easily misinterpreted as a lack of motivation or laziness.
Failing to remember instructions or rules may be interpreted as noncompliance.

The presenters will provide an overview of brain injury signs and symptoms, the prevalence of brain injury in justice-involved youth, and simple tools and strategies you and the justice-involved youth can utilize to minimize the effects of brain injury once it is identified through a screening process.

Objectives:

Participants will define brain injury and a way to recognize brain injury through the use of a brain injury screening tool.
Participants will be able to describe the difference and overlap between symptoms of brain injury, cognitive disabilities, and mental illness.
Participants will identify alternative responses in meeting the unique needs of justice-involved individuals with brain injury.

Peggy Reisher has a master’s degree in Social Work and is the executive director of the Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska (BIA-NE) whose organizational mission is to create a better future for all Nebraskans through brain injury prevention, education, advocacy, and support. Ms. Reisher has over 25 years of experience working and advocating for individuals with brain injury and their families across the state of Nebraska. Ms. Reisher helped start the Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska and currently serves as the chair of the US Brain Injury Alliance. She has received local and national awards for her advocacy work.

Dennis Marks holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Briar Cliff University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Creighton University School of Law. He has been representing juveniles in adult, juvenile and appellate courts since September 1996 as a Deputy Public Defender for Sarpy County, Nebraska. During this time, he has also been a member of numerous local, state, regional and national boards, committees, subcommittees and task forces dedicated to juvenile justice. Mr. Marks represented the Sarpy County Public Defender Office in the creation of both the juvenile and adult drug treatment courts in Sarpy County. He has testified before the Nebraska Senate Judiciary Committee on numerous legislative bills involving criminal justice reform. Mr. Marks has been an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy since 2002.

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