More of Your COVID-19 Questions Answered
NADCP’s
COVID-19 resources webpage now includes Hot
Topics, a question-and-answer guide to some of the most
pressing issues for treatment courts during the pandemic.
Browse
Hot Topics for answers from experts on a wide
range of topics, including:
- Employment
- Incarceration
- Non-compliant behavior
- Personal calls/contact by judges
- And more
Webinar: Pandemic Responses for Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts
Part
3: How to Continue Helping Youth Build Skills While Practicing Social
Distancing
When: April 29, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Presented in partnership with the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges
As guidance on operating during the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, stay informed to keep your participants, staff, and community safe. Check NADCP’s COVID-19 resource webpage often for updates and new guidance.
What’s
new:
- Watch: Practical Guidance for Continuing Treatment, Supporting Recovery, and Preventing Recurrence/Relapse During COVID-19
- Resource Index: Not sure where to find the resource you’re searching for? Browse the resource index by category.
- In the News: See how other treatment courts nationwide are adapting to the pandemic.
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Register Now for RISE20 Virtual
NADCP
is thrilled to announce that registration for RISE20 Virtual is now open!
Membership and Registration
The RISE20 Virtual registration fee is $450 for NADCP members and $495 for non-members.
If you are currently registered for RISE20 and would like to attend RISE20 Virtual you do not need to re-register. You will be automatically registered for RISE20 Virtual at a reduced price of $450 for NADCP members and $495 for non-members. Paid registrants will be automatically refunded the price difference.
Click here to renew your membership to receive discounted registration and learn more about the benefits of NADCP membership. Your membership must be paid before you can receive the discounted member rate.
For
membership questions, email membership@allrise.org. For registration
inquiries, email registration@allrise.org.
Major Benefits to Going Virtual
Accessible via livestream on the above dates and on demand after, RISE20 Virtual will present new content addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on treatment courts, while still featuring your favorite speakers, such as David Best, Shannon Carey, Paul Cary, Michael Clark, Jermaine Galloway (“Tall Cop Says Stop”), Bridgett Ortega, Doug Marlowe, David Mee-Lee, MD, Brian Meyer, Terrence Walton, and many more!
The
dynamic RISE20 Virtual format provides major additional benefits, including the
ability for attendees to earn up to 26.25 education hours during the live event
and, for the first time ever, earn an additional 33.75 hours in on-demand
content—a total of up to 60 hours!
For more information, visit RISE20.org.
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| Join NADCP in the next installment of our COVID-19 webinar series: Practical Guidance for Continuing Treatment, Supporting Recovery, and Preventing Recurrence/Relapse During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
When: April 16, 3:00 p.m. EDT Summary: This webinar will outline pandemic-related risks to recovery and offer practice-based expert guidance on how the full treatment court team can mitigate those risks and improve participants’ prognosis and capacity to enter or continue in recovery. |
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Just Announced: Revisions to BJA Solicitations for Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Grants
New Application deadline: June 1, 2020
Applicant Webinar Announced
Monday,
April 13
1
p.m. EDT
The Bureau of Justice Assistance just released a revised grant solicitation for the fiscal year 2020 Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program and Veterans Treatment Court Program.
All treatment court models remain eligible to apply including: adult drug courts, co-occurring courts, DWI courts, tribal healing to wellness courts, and veterans treatment courts. The new deadline to apply is June 1, 2020.
The revised solicitation now has four categories:
Category 1: Implementation of veterans treatment courts – $500,000 for 36 months
Funding may be used to support core capacity and provides critical treatment, case management and coordination, judicial supervision, sanction and incentive services, and other key resources, such as transitional housing, relapse prevention, and employment that can reduce recidivism for new veterans treatment courts.
Category 2: Enhancement of veterans treatment courts – $500,000 for 36 months
Funding may assist a jurisdiction to scale up the veterans treatment court program’s capacity; provide access to or enhance treatment capacity or other critical support services; enhance court operations; expand or enhance court services; or improve the quality and/or intensity of services based on needs assessments.
Category 3: Adult drug courts – $500,000 for 36 months
Funding may assist a jurisdiction to launch their implementation plans to operate a new drug court; scale up the drug court program’s capacity; provide access to or enhance treatment capacity or other critical support services; enhance court operations; expand or enhance court services; or improve the quality and/or intensity of services based on needs assessments.
NOTE: BJA removed the requirement of being operational for one year as of September 30, 2019. Applicants in this category are not required to be “ready to fully implement a drug court.”
Category 4: Statewide strategies to support adult drug courts and veterans treatment courts – $750,000 for 36 months
Statewide awards and support efforts to enhance or expand services for ADC or VTC. Funding will support the launch of new implementation plans for a court ready for drug court. Statewide enhancement activities include:
- scaling up the drug court program’s capacity;
- launching implementation plans to operate a drug court;
- expanding treatment and services;
- conducting audits of practice and technical assistance for adherence to standards;
- data collection and analysis to assess practice and track recidivism; and
- training and technical assistance (TTA).
Applicant Webinar Announced
Monday, April 13
1 p.m. EDT
BJA, in partnership with the National Drug Court Resource Center, is conducting an informational webinar for applicants. Greg Torain, policy advisor for BJA, will provide an overview of the revised solicitation and answer questions from attendees as time permits.
Additional Resources for Applicants
BJA grants emphasize the integration of NADCP’s Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards into existing drug court services. In addition, all applicants must demonstrate the court for which funds are sought does not deny eligible clients access because of their use of FDA-approved medications for the treatment of a substance use disorder (medication-assisted treatment).
For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at support@grants.gov. For questions regarding any other requirement of this solicitation, contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: toll-free at 800–851–3420; via TTY at 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only); email grants@ncjrs.gov; or web chat at webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp.
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| TODAY: Treatment Courts and COVID-19 Webinar Part 2 |
| Monday, April 6 | 3:00 p.m. EDT |
| Don’t forget! Join NADCP and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) for part two of a webinar series on treatment courts and COVID-19, Monday, April 6 at 3 p.m. EDT. Part two of the series will answer many questions from the March 26 webinar, as well as provide an update on federal guidance impacting treatment courts. |
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Webinar: Treatment Courts and COVID-19, hosted by NADCP and NCSC
March 26, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. EST
The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and National Center for State Courts (NCSC) are hosting a webinar on treatment courts and COVID-19 on Thursday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m. EST.
This webinar will provide guidance on:
- Federal, state, and local mandates and guidelines impacting treatment courts;
- The NCSC Preparing for a Pandemic: An Emergency Response Benchbook and Operational Guidebook for State Court Judges and Administrators; and
- Adapting treatment court operations during the COVID-19 crisis.
Click here to access the NCSC Benchbook, produced with funding from the State Justice Institute.
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| NADCP is pleased to offer a free webinar on the evolving role of probation officers in treatment courts. In partnership with the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, the webinar is presented by Dr. Brain Lovins, principal for Justice System Partners.
When: Wednesday, March 11, 2:00 p.m. EST Overview: As probation departments begin to re-evaluate their work, there is a significant shift in the role they can play on treatment court teams. Probation agencies have historically been asked to play a referee type role–monitoring the rules and conditions and blowing the whistle when observing the justice-involved individual stepping outside the lines. But there has been a recent call to transform probation officers from referees to coaches. Coaches’ role is to help their players win. To do so is to be able to assess talent quickly, design plans to help build strengths while minimizing the risks, reinforce, cheer, and hold accountable. This presentation will provide the framework for rethinking probation’s role at the table as one of coach versus referee. |
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BJA Opens FY 2020 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program Solicitation
Applications are due May 14, 2020
The
Bureau of Justice Assistance today released the grant
solicitations for the fiscal year 2020 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment
Court Discretionary Grant Program.
The grant program provides financial and technical assistance to
states, state courts, local courts, units of local government and Native
American tribal governments to enhance the operations of drug courts or
to implement new veterans treatment courts. Treatment court models eligible for
funding include: adult drug courts, co-occurring courts, DWI courts,
tribal healing to wellness courts, and veterans treatment courts.
NEW
THIS YEAR:
The FY 2020 Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program is no longer available
for implementation. Implementation grants are still available for veterans
treatment courts.
Grants
are available in the following categories:
Category
1: Implementation of Veterans Treatment Courts – $500,000 for 36 months
Eligible jurisdictions have completed a
substantial amount of planning and are ready to implement an evidence-based
veterans treatment court that supports core capacity and provides critical
treatment, case management and coordination, judicial
supervision, sanctions and incentive services and other key resources, such as
transitional housing, relapse prevention and employment.
Veterans treatment courts may propose to either
serve non-violent offenders or both non-violent and violent offenders.
Category
2: Enhancement of Adult Drug Courts and Veterans Treatment Courts – $500,000
for 36 months
Eligible jurisdictions have a fully-operational
adult drug court or veterans treatment court (i.e., those operating for at
least one year as of September 30, 2020). Funding may assist a jurisdiction to
scale up the program capacity; provide access to or enhance treatment capacity
or other critical support services; enhance court operations; expand or enhance
court services; or improve the quality and/or intensity of services based on
needs assessments.
Category
3: Statewide Strategies to support Adult Drug Courts and Veterans Treatment
Courts – $750,000 for 36 months
State applicants may apply for funding to
improve, enhance, or expand drug court and veterans treatment court services
statewide. Activities include expanding treatment and services; audits of
practice and technical assistance for adherence to standards; data collection
and analysis to assess practice and track recidivism; and training and
technical assistance (TTA).
BJA
grants emphasize the integration of NADCP’s Adult Drug Court Best Practice
Standards into existing drug court services. In addition, all applicants must
demonstrate the court for which funds are sought does not deny eligible clients
access because of their use of FDA-approved medications for the treatment of a
substance use disorder (medication-assisted treatment).
For
technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov
Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html,
or at support@grants.gov. For questions
regarding any other requirement of this solicitation, contact the National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: toll-free at
800–851–3420; via TTY at 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only); email grants@ncjrs.gov; or web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp.
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MAT in Treatment Courts: Free Webinar Featuring Dr. Doug Marlowe, Steve Hanson, Judge Shaun Floerke
Monday, February 24 | 12:30 p.m. Eastern
Don’t miss a vital discussion on medication in addiction treatment (MAT) with some of the top experts in the treatment court field. In this free webinar from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) GAINS Center, you’ll hear about the most common barriers to implementing MAT and a variety of ways to address them, ensuring your treatment court program is following NADCP’s best practice standards.
Don’t
miss your chance to learn from the best:
- Doug Marlowe, JD, PhD, Senior Scientific Consultant, NADCP
- Steve Hanson, MSEd, LMHC, CASAC, Associate Commissioner, Courts and Criminal Justice, NYS Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services
- Shaun Floerke, JD, District Court Judge, 6th Judicial District of Minnesota
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