Protection Orders, Full Faith and Credit
- OVW Approved?
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Yes
- Description
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Wednesday January 21, 2026
11:00 AM PT/ Noon MT/ 1:00 PM CT/ 2:00 ET
90-minute webinar formatIn this webinar, participants will receive information on drafting enforceable protection orders. The discussion will include the elements necessary to invoke the Full Faith and Credit mandate of 18 U.S.C. 2265. The webinar will delve into drafting remedies tailored to meet the needs of the applicant for the protection order and a refresher for Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 2022.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the importance of completing an application for a protection order that includes required tribal legal elements;
- Discuss the importance of full faith and credit regarding protection orders;
- Understand and discuss required elements in the protection order to activate VAWA full faith and credit; and
- Understand the importance of drafting enforceable remedies tailored to meet the needs of the client.
Presenters:
Kelly Stoner, Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Kelly Stoner serves as TLPI’s Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist. For over twenty years, Kelly taught at law schools in North Dakota School and Oklahoma teaching classes and directing clinical programs focused on American Indian/ Tribal Law and Domestic Violence related classes. Kelly has eight years of experience as a Judge for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and frequently publishes and on the issue of violence against American Indian women and children.
Bonnie Clairmont, Victim Advocacy Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Bonnie Clairmont (Ho-Chunk) serves from TLPI’s Minnesota office as the Victim Advocacy Specialist. Prior to her employment with TLPI, she was the Outreach/Client Services Coordinator for Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey County, a rape crisis center. While employed there, Bonnie provided leadership in the development of Sexual Assault Response Teams and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs and offered guidance with multidisciplinary sexual assault protocol development. She has worked more than twenty-five years advocating for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. She has dedicated much of her work to providing and improving services for victim/survivors of sexual assault, battering, and child sexual abuse, particularly those from American Indian communities. For four years she coordinated the Strengthening the Circle of Trust Conference, a conference focusing on sexual assault and exploitation perpetrated by American Indian spiritual leaders/medicine men. Bonnie co-edited a recently published book “Sharing Our Stories of Survival” an anthology of writing by Native Women who’ve experienced violence. Bonnie provided technical assistance to research conducted by Amnesty International USA that led to the report, “Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous Women from sexual violence in the USA.” She and her late partner Jim Clairmont have two children and five grandchildren.