NADCP Launches Self-Paced E-Learning Center
Learn the critical foundations of treatment courts online!
Treatment courts work best when practitioners are well-versed in the foundations of effective programs. NADCP’s new online learning hub provides self-paced training courses designed to be engaging and informative to practitioners at any experience level.
All courses offered in the NADCP E-Learning Center are FREE and led by renowned experts in the treatment court field. Courses available now include:
- Essential Elements of Treatment Courts
- Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Veteran Mentor Coordinator
- Trauma Awareness: Critical Information for Veterans Treatment Court Teams
New courses will be added throughout 2021 and beyond. Get started expanding your treatment court knowledge today!
Featured Course: Essential Elements of Treatment Courts
Are you looking for a new team member orientation? Updated from the popular Essential Elements of Adult Drug Courts online course, Essential Elements of Treatment Courts provides foundational training using the most up-to-date science and best practices. In addition, the new and improved Essential Elements includes modules specific to veterans treatment courts.
The course is designed to educate new team members, as well as refresh experienced practitioners. Don’t miss this course for self-paced modules with experts covering:
- Drug testing
- Recurrence of drug use
- Assessment and treatment
- Confidentiality and ethics
- PTSD
- And more!
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Building a Multi-Track Treatment Court
Virtual training for courts looking to serve more populations
Applications are open now for training from NADCP’s National Drug Court Institute on expanding your treatment court to serve individuals outside the high-risk/high-need profile.
Building a Multi-Track Treatment Court is a free, virtual training designed for programs seeking to serve individuals that may not need the full complement of services offered by a treatment court but with no other accessible alternative to incarceration. Attendees will learn how to improve outcomes in their community for the full spectrum of justice-involved individuals.
Apply soon: the two-day, fully virtual training is only offered three times in 2021 and has limited capacity. Applicants must have commitment from their full multidisciplinary team to be considered.
Applications close May 14.
Training Overview
Decades of research makes clear treatment courts should focus on high-risk/high-need individuals to achieve the best outcomes. However, it may not always be possible for a treatment court to exclusively target this population, especially if the treatment court is the only alternative-to-incarceration program offered by a jurisdiction. Many jurisdictions are trying to address the needs of those involved in the court system that may not need the full complement of the services provided in their treatment court.
This training is designed to expand knowledge, incorporate other tracks, enhance skills, and improve outcomes for the full spectrum of justice-involved individuals in your jurisdiction.
This curriculum is supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Have an Exemplary Treatment Court Program? Become a Mentor Court!
Applications due May 14, 2021
NADCP is seeking exemplary treatment court programs to join our national network of mentor courts. If you think your program exhibits the best qualities of the treatment court model, apply now to be a mentor court!
Visit the application page to learn more about the requirements and benefits of becoming a mentor court. Before applying, watch an informational webinar recording with National Drug Court Institute Director Vanessa Price and current mentor courts.
About NADCP Mentor Courts
NADCP mentor courts are exemplary adult drug courts, tribal healing to wellness courts, co-occurring disorder courts, and veterans treatment courts that serve as national models for three-year terms. These top-tier programs play a significant role in NADCP’s training, technical assistance, and research efforts.
As a mentor court, your program will:
- Host team members from other jurisdictions for both in-person and web-based visits
- Participate in research and media opportunities
- Serve as a national model
- Provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- Receive fee wavers and travel costs for two program representatives to attend RISE for each of the three years
The NDCI Mentor Court Program is supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
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May is National Drug Court Month!
Download NADCP’s toolkit for safe ways your court can celebrate
In May, the treatment court community will once again come together to celebrate National Drug Court Month. This year’s celebration will look a little different again, but May is still a great opportunity to celebrate the lifesaving work you do, engage our stakeholders, and inspire our communities.
NADCP’s National Drug Court Month Toolkit is here to assist you with your planning. This year, we want to highlight the individual stories of those we serve.
Inside the toolkit you’ll find a wealth of information, including:
- NADCP’s Share Your Story campaign
- Sample social media messages
- A National Drug Court Month proclamation template
- Tools to write effective op-eds and media advisories
- Unique and safe event ideas
As always, NADCP is here to serve you. If you need assistance beyond what’s in the toolkit, just ask! We want to amplify your work to the nation, so be sure to tag us on social media, and send us the photos and media stories you collect. Let us help your community tell its treatment court story!
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Honor Your Treatment Court Heroes
Nominations open for national awards through April 30
Tell us about your treatment court heroes! Nominations are open now for national awards honoring outstanding treatment court professionals and teams. Awards are presented at RISE21, August 15-18 in National Harbor, Maryland!
Don’t delay, the deadline to submit your nomination is April 30.
Stanley Goldstein Treatment Court Hall of Fame
The highest honor in the treatment court field, this honor recognizes practitioners with unmatched contribution to the treatment court movement.
This award recognizes courts showing leadership to improve services across diverse populations, eliminate cultural disparities and ensure equity and inclusion in the court program.
This award recognizes outstanding DWI court practitioners or teams saving countless lives by advancing the nation’s DWI court movement.
Juvenile and Family Treatment Court Leadership Award
This award honors practitioners, teams, or organizations delivering outstanding service to families and/or juveniles in the justice system.
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Now Accepting Submissions to the Journal for Advancing Justice Vol. IV
NADCP is pleased to call for submissions to the next volume of our peer-reviewed Journal for Advancing Justice: “Justice Reform: Achieving Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections to Promote Recovery.” This issue is supported by a grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President. The United States and other nations are at a major crossroads. As communities and advocates continue to call for change at the federal, state, and local levels, justice reforms are taking hold at an unprecedented pace. While many reforms are clearly necessary and well-intentioned, it has become more critical than ever that law, policy, and practice shifts be grounded in rigorous scientific research. If we are to ensure lasting positive change, we must conduct research in critical areas that have not received adequate attention, as well as build on existing findings from community-based interventions that have been proven to work, such as treatment courts, law enforcement deflection initiatives, prosecutor-led diversion programs, and other alternatives to incarceration.
We are looking for original research reports and research-based review articles or meta-analyses to address priority topics such as:
- Collaborative strategies for the treatment and justice systems to coordinate care effectively for high-risk and high-need participants
- Effective parameters for community supervision practices, such as home or employment visits, GPS monitoring, house arrest, remote check-ins, drug and alcohol testing, and application of core correctional practices
- Optimum program lengths and dosages of services based on participant risk and need
- Methods for enhancing or building on recovery capital for participants
- Effective roles and functions of peer recovery support specialists or peer mentors
- Effective harm reduction strategies and how to apply these in the context of community corrections programs
- The impact of drug decriminalization or legalization on applications of best practices
- Trainings or interventions demonstrated to enhance equity and inclusion for various racial, ethnic, or other cultural groups
- Self-care and wellness strategies for justice professionals to enhance workforce development, including strategies for coping with loss and grief
Click here to learn more and submit.
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Webinar Series: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Pandemic Responses – One Year Later
Wednesday, March 31|2:00 p.m. ET
Wednesday, April 7|2:00 p.m. ET
NADCP’s Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Project and the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges invites you to “Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Pandemic Responses,” a two-part webinar series revisiting juvenile drug treatment court efforts one year after COVID-19 restrictions began. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to participate in a facilitated discussion with a panel of juvenile drug treatment court experts. Both events in the series will last one hour.
Session Description
This webinar series will engage juvenile drug treatment court team members in sharing and discussing alternative practices and responses developed to address challenges presented by COVID-19 restrictions. The two webinars are a follow-up to the webinars NCJFCJ and NADCP conducted in 2020.
The webinar series will focus on helping juvenile drug treatment court teams learn from each other on how they successfully adapted their processes and maintained community linkages while ensuring community safety and supporting positive youth behavior change.
This is a two-part learning series:
- Part one – How courts have evolved due to COVID-19 (3/31/2021)
- Part two – How courts are supporting youth during COVID-19 (4/7/2021)
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So, You Want to be a Mentor Court?
Join an informational webinar Tuesday, April 6 | 2:00 p.m. ET
NADCP is seeking exemplary treatment court programs to join its national network of mentor courts. If you think your program exhibits the best qualities of the treatment court model, learn more about becoming a mentor court!
Join NDCI Director Vanessa Price and current mentor courts for a webinar April 6 at 2:00 p.m. ET on how your program can become a mentor court. The webinar will also provide more details on the benefits and requirements of becoming a mentor court.
More About NADCP Mentor Courts
NADCP mentor courts are exemplary adult drug courts, tribal healing to wellness courts, co-occurring disorder courts and veteran treatment courts that serve as national models for three-year terms. These top-tier programs play a significant role in NADCP’s training, technical assistance, and research efforts.
As a mentor court, your program will:
- Host team members from other jurisdictions for both in-person and web-based visits
- Participate in research and media opportunities
- Serve as national model
- Provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- Receive fee wavers and travel costs for two program representatives to attend RISE for each of the three years.
The NDCI Mentor Court Program is supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Webinar: Addressing Sleep Hygiene in Justice-Involved Veterans
Tuesday, March 23 | 2:00 p.m. ET
NADCP’s Justice For Vets invites you to join “Insomnia: The Most Important and Least Addressed Symptom in Mental Health Treatment and How to Improve It through Sleep Hygiene” – a 75-minute webinar on addressing an often overlooked symptom in mental health treatment for justice-involved veterans and others. VA clinical psychologist Brian Meyer shows ways professionals in veterans treatment courts can approach sleep hygiene and improve outcomes.
Session Description
Imagine a life in which you slept only 2-3 hours a night: how would that change you? Insomnia is a symptom of almost every significant mental health problem found in veterans treatment courts, including substance use disorders, PTSD, depression, and chronic pain. Nonetheless, it often goes unaddressed until later in treatment even though treating insomnia would improve every one of those diagnostic problems. This presentation addresses the links between insomnia and other mental health disorders. It then provides a systematic approach to sleep hygiene that can dramatically improve sleep and decrease insomnia by 30-50 percent in just two sessions. So take off your shoes, pull up your blankets, and learn how to help your clients sleep better – and maybe you will sleep better, too.
About the Presenter
Brian L. Meyer, Ph.D., L.C.P., is a clinical psychologist and the psychology program manager for community-based outpatient clinics for the Central Virginia VA Health Care System, and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University. He obtained his A.B. from Harvard University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialization in adolescents and families from Duke University in 1990. Currently, Dr. Meyer oversees psychologists at five regional VA community clinics; provides evidence-based treatments for veterans with PTSD, substance use disorder, depression, TBI, and other co-occurring conditions; and develops and conducts research on treatments for PTSD, substance use disorder, and comorbid conditions. Dr. Meyer has presented on a wide range of content areas, including the treatment of trauma and comorbid conditions, substance use disorder, complex trauma, the effects of trauma and substance use disorder on families, veteran mental health, mindfulness meditation, secondary traumatization, and self-care. He is the co-author of Transcending Self Therapy: Group Integrative Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Book for Facilitators (2019), a treatment manual for people with substance use disorders.
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New Issue of All Rise Magazine Available
NADCP is pleased to announce that All Rise Winter/Spring 2021 is now available for your reading pleasure! This edition celebrates and supports your success from cover to cover.
Highlights include:
- Preview of RISE21, August 15-18 in National Harbor, Maryland
- Why equity and inclusion matter in treatment court programs
- Findings around best practices for law enforcement and community supervision in the new Journal for Advancing Justice
- Treatment courts and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Launch of our new NADCP E-learning Center
…and much more!
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