- Are you interested in starting an Adult, Tribal or Veterans Drug Treatment Court in your community?
All 2012 Drug Court Planning Initiatives are full and registration is now closed.
Overview
The Drug Court Planning Initiative (DCPI) is the official Drug Court planning project of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). BJA contracts with the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI) to develop and implement the Adult Drug Court Planning Initiative (ADCPI), Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts Planning Initiative (THWCPI), and Veterans Treatment Court Planning Initiative (VTCPI) curriculum.
These training programs are designed to educate an interdisciplinary team in the theory and application to effectively plan and implement one of the three Drug Court models (adult, tribal and veterans). This training is designed to accomplish the following three goals:
- Educating teams about the basic components of these courts;
- Providing teams with the skills necessary for successfully making the shift from standard case processing to Adult, Veterans Treatment, or Tribal court case processing; and
- Working with teams to build their program to integrate court and treatment functions.
A team of NDCI staff and cadre of treatment court practitioners will work with planning teams to develop their policy and procedure manual. Each interactive DCPI training session has been designed to familiarize participants with the building blocks of these courts.
Who Should Attend?
Participating jurisdictions must identify a team of professionals who will participate in distance-based technical assistance and attend one five-day, regional training event. All members of a planning team, including the judge, coordinator, prosecutor, defense counsel, treatment representative, community supervision representative, law enforcement and evaluator, must be able to attend a five-day training program to qualify for DCPI. See each specific training for more detailed information.
