"Painting the Current Picture "

This issue reports the type and aggregate number of operational drug courts as well as the latest drug court research. You'll also find key information about current drug court models and populations, participant drug-of-choice trends, and drug-free babies, as well as a first-person account client success story from a drug court participant breaking free from meth.

"Ensuring Sustainability for Drug Courts "

This “cookbook” provides a wealth of state and local strategies from the field to help you identify funding sources for your drug court and stimulate creative ideas for your strategic sustainability plan.

"Quality Improvement for Drug Courts"

Developed by NDCI and a cadre of the world’s best researchers this book presents an overview of the research on effectively treating the drug court client. Our hope is that a drug court that implements these evidence-based practices could increase its graduation rate by as much as 10%.

"Drug Court Review: Vol. VI, No. 1 "

The latest issue of NDCI’s journal examines sanctioning practices in adult felony drug court, family dependency treatment courts, and the impact of drug court services.

"2009 Drug Court Practitioner Training Series"

:Sustainability of the drug court model requires the efforts of skilled and knowledgeable practitioners, many of whom are called upon to perform a wide variety of new duties and tasks. This year, NDCI is pleased to offer six comprehensive training events

"Operational Tune-Up:  Re-Tooling Your Program"

NDCI, under a cooperative agreement with (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice, offers a new two-day, advanced subject-matter training program entitled “Operational Tune-Up: Re-Tooling Your Program” that assists drug court teams with learning how to apply the latest drug court research and best practice techniques to your existing program. The goals of this innovative training program is to (1) assess the current practices within your drug court program; (2) teach participants the scientific research about drug court practices to facilitate the revision and/or addition of policies and practices relating to incentives & sanctions, target population, supervision, drug testing and understanding what the law will and will not allow; and (3) teach participants best practices that have been established by successful drug court programs.