NDCRC Resources for Your Conference or Training
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Are you organizing a conference or training for treatment court professionals? Are you looking for resources to distribute to attendees? We can help! We have developed convenient conference takeaways and supplemental materials for trainings, now available to order online.
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Convenient and portable, these flash drives can be tailored to include a number of our resources, including our collection of recorded webinars, fact sheets, and other printed materials.
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This informational guide serves as a primer for treatment court professionals who want to learn about the treatment-related issues and practices that are critical to effective treatment court operations.
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Veterans Treatment Courts: 2015 Survey Results
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This report is a summary of a Justice Programs Office study of veterans treatment courts (VTC). This nationwide survey provides a snapshot of VTC policies, practices, and services.
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The Justice Programs Office and National Drug Court Resource Center are continually developing informative fact sheets on topics of interest to the treatment court field.
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Free Data Management System
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Data collection and analysis is essential to any well-operating organization. It is especially important for drug treatment courts which coordinate services across many different agencies. Treatment courts need data management systems to update day-to-day logistics such as docket calendars and treatment requirements, but they also need to measure program success over time and ensure equity across race and ethnicity. A data management information system (DMIS) tool designed to serve the particular data needs of treatment courts is available for free! It is called the Buffalo DMIS, named after the Buffalo City Court team who developed it, and runs via Microsoft Access 2010. The Buffalo DMIS provides suggested collection fields, enables a docket calendar display, generates weekly status reports, and can run statistical analyses. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel to start an effective data collection system-
email the National Drug Court Resource Center at
ndcrc@american.edu
to obtain the Buffalo DMIS.
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Outlining the Roles of Your Team Members
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The collaborative nature of treatment courts is unique in comparison to other criminal justice system programs. Even though team members work together, it is important that each member maintains a distinct role on the team to ensure that due process and legal rights are protected, public safety is preserved, and treatment is being delivered by the appropriate clinicians, among other things. Every team member brings a set of skills and expertise that contributes to the functioning of the program.
To clearly define the roles and responsibilities of your team, reference this document by the National Drug Court Institute
that lists the core competencies and duties of each role.
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News from Tribal Law and Policy Institute
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Join TLPI for a webinar entitled
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts and Juvenile Referral/Diversion Provisions
on August 16 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PDT. The course will provide participants with an introductory explanation of how to develop or enhance tribal juvenile justice codes, policy, and procedures. The course will also emphasize how to support developing tribal juvenile healing to wellness courts. The webinar will be led by
Hon. Pat Sekaquaptewa and Lauren van Schilfgaarde.
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News from Children and Family Futures
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Children and Family Futures has released two recorded webinars now available for listening. Their project, the
Family Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance Program
’s Learning Academy, recently released
Planning for Safe Care – What Your Family Drug Court Needs to Know about Serving Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders and Their Infants
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Click here to access the recording
of this informative webinar and the accompanying Team Discussion Guide to facilitate conversations and program planning among your team.
They also released the webinar
Ready, Set, Go! 5 Key Planning Decisions as You Successfully Launch Your Family Drug Court
for practitioners developing a new court. The webinar features several accompanying resources including the Family Treatment Court Planning Guide published by the National Drug Court Institute and the Center for Children and Family Futures.
To access the webinar and the resources, click here.
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News from the
National Association of Drug Court Professionals
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Does your treatment court team have questions? Unsure how to update your policy and procedures manual or how to address the influx of participants struggling with opioid use disorder? Wondering what to do when team turnover happens? What about treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders? The
National Drug Court Institute
(NDCI) can answer all of these questions and more through its
customized technical assistance (TA) program
. TA is available to adult drug courts, co-occurring disorder courts, DWI courts, and veterans treatment courts. NDCI's technical assistance is tailored to fit the needs of your individual program and designed to help you develop, implement, and sustain evidence-based best practices. Request technical assistance by completing a brief online application. An NDCI technical assistance team member will contact you within seven business days to discuss your request.
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August 16, 2018
August 22 - 24, 2018
August 28 - 30, 2018
September 12 - 14, 2018
September 16 - 22, 2018
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The
National Drug Court Resource, Policy, and Evidence-Based Practice Center
’s mission is to equip the drug court field with open access to a wide variety of resources and research, helping treatment courts run more effectively.
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The
National Drug Court Resource, Policy, and Evidence-Based Practice Center
is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and operated by the Justice Programs Office (JPO) at American University. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse the content of this newsletter
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National Drug Court Resource Center | Justice Programs Office
ndcrc.org
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