MENTAL HEALTH TALKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT COVID-19 HOW TO PRACTICE LAW FROM HOME POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS MISCELLANEOUS LINKS Click on the headings below to access links to documents. Mental Health CDC Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse Considerations During COVID-19 (4/2020) SAMSHA SAMSHA's Training and Technical Assistance Related to COVID-19 (last visited Aug. 18, 2020) (listing of resources including webinars and websites) The Mental Health Effects of Coronavirus Are a "Slow-Motion Disaster" (4/2/20) By Jamie Smith Hopkins & Dean Russell National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) Information and Resources (Rev. 3/26/20) A wealth of suggestions and responses to some of the most common sources of anxiety and stress during this time. Includes referrals to hot-lines and other support for immediate help. Remote Recovery Options Alcoholics Anonymous: online and phone meetings Narcotics Anonymous: online and phone meetings Women for Sobriety: online and phone support National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 SAMSHA's National Helpline (treatment locator): 1-800-66HELP (4357) DEA Diversion Control Division COVID-19 Information Page (last visited 3/25/20) American Society of Addition Medicine COVID-19 Resources (last visited (3/25/20) COVID-19: Potential Implications for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders (3/24/20) By Dr. Nora Volkow, DIrector, National Institutes of Health Telehealth Coverage Policies in the Time of COVID-19 (3/23/20) The Center for Connected Health Policy is compiling the rapidly changing policies regarding telemedicine. In the Rooms (last visited 3/25/20) Here is an online recovery support for your clients/participants. In the Rooms offers over 100 online meetings of various fellowships daily. Training and Technical Assistance Related to COVID-19 (last visited 3/25/20) Resources from Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC) Coping with Change in Uncertain Times (3/20/20) Federal Judiciary Benefits Office - WorkLife4You Manage Coronavirus Anxiety & Stress (3/19/20) Federal Judiciary Benefits Office - WorkLife4You Protect Yourself Financially from the Impact of the Coronavirus Federal Judiciary Benefits Office - WorkLife4You Novel Coronavirus Infection (2019-nCoV) Anxiety and Prevention Flyer Federal Judiciary Benefits Office - WorkLife4You Center for Disease Control and Prevention (rev. 3/14/20) Addresses ways to manage mental health and coping issues that arise or are heightened as a result of COVID-19. Tips For Social Distancing, Quarantine, And Isolation During An Infectious Disease Outbreak (2014) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Talking To Children About COVID-19 Talking with Children About Coronoavirus Disease 2019: Messages for parents, school staff, and others working with children (last visited 4/1/20) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention How to talk with kids about screentime and COVID-19 (3/31/20) By Justine Calma, The Verge 10 tips for talking about COVID-19 with your kids (3/16/20) PBS News Hour How To Practice Law From Home Video Conferencing Assistance for CJA Panel Attorneys: contact email address Video_Conference_CJA_Help@fd.org (link sends e-mail) In many districts CJA panel attorneys are being asked to use video conferencing. For some, this may be the first time they have attempted to do it. If you would like a second pair of virtual eyes when trying to use this technology, email the National Litigation Support Team at Video_Conference_CJA_Help@fd.org (link sends e-mail) and someone will follow up with you and see if we can assist. Please remember that this is not our primary area of focus (it's typically addressing e-discovery challenges and using litigation support technology), and there are many video conferencing platforms and services out there, some of which we haven't seen. But we know that with some assistance, panel attorneys can use video conferencing tools successfully. We work with panel attorneys every day using litigation support technology and we have seen how they have been able to do much more with technology than they ever thought, and we want you to have assistance during these difficult times. We will try and respond quickly, but give us 24-hour notice as we are a small team and there are over 12,000 CJA panel attorneys in the U.S. If there is a great interest for this kind of help, we will expand our group of people who will respond. We may encounter technical problems beyond all our control. Jails may be using a commercial service, or they may be using their own proprietary system. But know that we will do what we can to help make it work and give you some tips and tricks for the next time. In the weeks to come, we will collect and identify video conferencing training resources for CJA panel attorneys. If you identify videoconferencing systems that are being used in your district, have reference materials that may be of assistance to your fellow panel attorneys, let us know and we can share that information with others on www.fd.org. "How Do I Defend People Now?" (4/17/20) By Chrissy Madjar, Kenneth Hardin, Eric Quandt, Nathan Wade, The Marshall Project Judge to lawyers: Please get out of bed and pout on a shirt for Zoom court hearings (last visited 4/16/20) By David Selig, Local10.com How to Work From Home Now That Your Boss Doesn't Want You Coming In (3/12/20) 7 tips to survive working from home with your spouse (3/31/20) By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business 8 Tips to Make Working From Home Work for you (updated 3/30/20) By Yuki Noguchi, NPR How to work from home (3/11/20) By Kim Lyons, The Verge Policy and Communications Federal Public & Community Defenders Letter to Congress (5/11/20) This letter explains to Congress why certain legislative measures would provide badly needed relief to individuals in federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as a presumption of release under the Bail Reform Act, absent clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a serious threat of violence. The letter also responds to reports from DOJ and BOP that appear to misstate their release policies and implementation of CDC guidance. Treatment Courts and COVID-19: What to Consider During a Pandemic (3/26/20) Letter from AG Barr to All U.S. Attorneys re Litigating Pre-Trial Detention Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic (4/6/20) Urges prosecutors to continue pushing "as zealously today as you would have before the pandemic began" to keep allegedly violent defendants awaiting trial in jail. "Protecting the public from criminal is our paramount obligation," Barr writes. Federal Public & Community Defenders Letter to AG Barr re: COVID-19 (4/1/20) This letter urges the DOJ & BOP to "immediately reduce the number of people entering federal detention and aggressively transfer or release individuals detained in federal pretrial custody," pursuant to the powers granted to the AG to expand the availability of home confinement under the CARES Act. Letter to AG Barr from Jerrold Nadler, House Judiciary Committee Chairman, & Karn Bass, Chair, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security (3/30/20) Urges BOP, in light of first death of a prisoner due to COVID-19 in BOP custody on March 28, 2020, at FCC Oakdale in Louisiana, to take immediate action to "release medically-compromised, elderly, and pregnant prisoners in the custody of the BOP" under BOP's compassionate release authority, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A), and newly enacted home confinement release authority under the CARES Act. Barr: Federal Prisons Mustn't Become 'Petri Dishes" For Corona Virustest (3/26/20) By Philip Ewing Letter to President Donald Trump from Civil Rights/Public Policy Groups Urging Clemency (3/24/20) Updated ICE Statement on COVID-19 (3/18/20) U.S. Marshals Service, Prisoner Operations Division: Novel Coronavirus Guidance for Screening United States Marshals Service Prisoners (3/13/20) Letter from Reps Nadler and Bass to AG William Barr (3/19/20) Letter from Sen. Kamala Harris to BOP (3/19/20) Letter to Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Chair, Defender Serv. Comm., from Lisa Freeland, FPD W.D.PA. & Co-Chair, Defender Serv. Advisory Comm, Requesting Temporary Remote Proceedings (3/22/20) Attorney General Barr Memo to All US Attorneys re: Government Employee Travel Re: State & Local Travel Restrictions (3/20/20) Letter to Attorney General Barr re COVID-19 (3/12/20) By Jerold Nadler, Chairman, House Committee on the Judiciary Law in the Time of Corona: Federal Defense Edition(3/16/20) By Federal Public Defender, District of Oregon The Justice Collaborative (last visited 3/17/20) This organization can assist with policy and communications around COVID-19 and vulnerable populations. The site also offers many resources addressing issues such as asking for release, explaining impact of jail on clients. Letter to Attorney General Barr re: COVID-19 (3/19/20) By Federal Public and Community Defenders. This letter asks the DOJ to immediately take steps to: (1) minimize arrests, detentions, and consent to the release of those already detained (except in certain cases); and (2) direct BOP to utilized its existing authorities to maximize the use of community corrections and compassionate release. Miscellaneous Links The Leader's Guide To Managing COVID-19 Panic (3/5/20) By Jan Bruce, Forbes Thinking About Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts Through a Science-Informed, Early Childhood Lens (4/27/20) By Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. & David R. Williams, Ph.D., Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University How Animals Help Us During the COVID-19 Pandemic (3/30/30) By Genevieve Rajewski, TuftsNow Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse Considerations During COVID-19 (4/2020) SAMHSA UCLA Covid-19 Behind Bars Data Project (last visited 4/21/20) In March 2020, in the face of the increasing danger posed by Covid-19 to people held in jails and prisons, the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program launched the UCLA Covid-19 Behind Bars Data Project. The Project, spearheaded by Professor Sharon Dolovich, tracks Covid-19 conditions in jails and prisons and the efforts -- both in and out of court -- to decrease jail and prison populations and improve conditions to ensure the safety of residents and staff. This link helps you navigate to different portions of the project. A Guide to COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development Center on the Developing Child Harvard University The Center on the Developing Child has gathered a number of resources and recommendations to help you through this challenging time. This guide pulls together information on COVID-19, what it means for child development, and easy-to-share resources that can help parents and caregivers, as well as child care providers, pediatricians, and others who work with families. Coping with Coronavirus: Support for the Autism Community (4/14/20) By Joshua Gordon, National Institute of Health Small Business Owners With Criminal Records Could Be Banned from Coronavirus Aid (4/15/20) By Emma Coleman, Route Fifty Wilson, Bellamy, et al. v. Williams, Warden of Elkton FCI; Carvajal, BOP Director, No. 4:20-cv-794 (N.D. Ohio Apr. 13, 2020) (Emergency Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Injunctive, and Declaratory Relief, Class Action) Covid-19 checkpoints targeting out-of-state residents draw complaints and legal scrutiny (4/14/20) By Luz Lazo & Katherine Shaver, Washington Post Bloomberg Law (last visited 04/07/20) Federal Courts Respond to COVID-19 (Map) Advisory Memo on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response (3/28/20) U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency Homemade Face Mask Step-By-Step Instructions (last visited 3/31/20) Numerous hospitals are accepting homemade face masks. This pattern is posted on the website of the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Brennan Center for Justice (last visited 3/27/20) A compilation of all courts' (federal and state) responses to COVID19 crisis Paul Hastings (last visited 3/27/20) A compilation of federal court closings, cancellations and restrictions due to COVID-19 Is My Chest Tightness Anxiety or the Coronavirus? (3/25/20) By Katie Heaney, The Cut The Marshall Project (last visited 3/25/20) Coronavirus Tracker: How Justice Systems Are Responding in Each State Online Tools Make Civics Accessible to Teachers, Parents, and Teens (3/25/20) United States Court Everybody's Scared": Panic At Immigrant Detention Center After Positive Coronavirus Test (3/24/20) By Emily Kassie, The Marshall Project Cornoavirus Leaves Foster Children With Nowhere to Go (3/24/20) By Eli Hager, the Marshall Project Charter to Offer Free Access to Spectrum Broadband and Wi_fi for 60 Days For New K-12 and College Student Households and More (3/13/20) You may have clients without internet access. Charter Communications is offering free internet for 60 days to households with K-12 and college students. This may help many of your clients . Seven Questions About Reentry Amid COVID Confusion (3/20/20) By Megan Quattlebaum, Director, the CSG Justice Center NACDL Coronavirus Resources (last visited 3/20/20) Order Granted, Emergency Motion for Immediate Transfer from BOP to Home Confinement (3/19/20) (D. Maryland) Motion for Stay of Execution Due to COVID-19 Pandemic (3/18/20) The Marshall Project Resource List (rev. 3/17/20) This part of the Marshall Project site contains a curated collection of links to media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 around the country. National Juvenile Defender Center COVID-19 Resources (last visited 3/17/20) Many resources here touch on legal issues relevant to the adult community. Law in the Time of Corona: Federal Defense Edition(3/16/20) By Federal Public Defender, District of Oregon Updated interactive map with all the court updates - state and federal (rev. 3/16/20) Law 360 An Urgent Address to Criminal Defense Lawyers from California Attorneys for Criminal Justice President Eric Schweitzer (3/14/20)
