Drug Court U: Webinars
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BJA 2023 New Grantees Webinar - Part 2 (TTA Partners)
Presenters: Gregory Torain & Courtney Stewart (BJA), Carolyn Hardin (NADCP)
Description:
An overview and Q&A session for treatment court programs interested in applying for federal grant funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice.
BJA 2023 New Grantees Webinar - Part 1 (Federal)
Presenters: Gregory Torain & Courtney Stewart (BJA), Carolyn Hardin (NADCP)
Description:
An overview and Q&A session for treatment court programs interested in applying for federal grant funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Best Practice Standards Volume II
Presenter: Aaron Arnold
Description:
30 years of research have led to the development of the Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards, which provide detailed operational guidelines that all treatment courts should strive to achieve. Maintaining fidelity to the standards is essential, as treatment courts that follow best practices save lives, promote long-term recovery, and reduce reoffending. But treatment courts that fail to adhere to the standards may cause harm. This training session is the second presentation on the Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards. (Attendance at the Volume I presentation on October 5 is not necessary to attend this session.) Volume II addresses the areas of: complementary treatment and social services; drug and alcohol testing; multidisciplinary team; census and caseloads; and monitoring and evaluation.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Best Practice Standards Volume I
Presenter: Aaron Arnold
Description:
30 years of research have led to the development of the Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards, which provide detailed operational guidelines that all treatment courts should strive to achieve. Maintaining fidelity to the standards is essential, as treatment courts that follow best practices save lives, promote long-term recovery, and reduce reoffending. But treatment courts that fail to adhere to the standards may cause harm. This training session provides an overview of Standards I through V and offers practical tips to help treatment court teams apply the standards in their day-to-day practice. Standards I through V include target population; equity and inclusion; roles and responsibilities of the judge; incentives, sanctions, and therapeutic adjustments; and substance use disorder treatment.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Equity and Inclusion
Presenter: Anne Janku
Description:
The NADCP Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards state that "those who have historically experienced sustained discrimination or reduced social opportunities because of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, physical or mental disability, religion, or socioeconomic status must receive the same opportunities in treatment courts as others." This session examines research and promising practices related to the elements of the standard and introduces the Equity and Inclusion Toolkit, a resource to help programs enhance access and retention for underserved groups in their programs.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Drug Testing
Presenter: Paul Cary
Description:
Effective drug testing in treatment court is essential to the overall success of the program. This presentation is designed for treatment court team members who want a review of best practices for maintaining a successful drug testing program. Best practices for collection strategies and results interpretation, two essential components of a credible testing program, are discussed, along with the reasons for testing, how to select clients for maximum abstinence surveillance, and what specimens yield the best results. Additional focus issues include controlling sample tampering and the use of creatinine measurements.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Treating Impaired Drivers in Veterans Treatment Courts
Presenters: David Pelletier, Jessica Lange
Description:
If you're working with justice-involved veterans in any capacity, you may have recognized that their entry into the system is frequently due to impaired driving. The issues veterans present and treating them can be complex. Impaired drivers are also a unique demographic, often presenting with co-occurring disorders, and the balance of treatment and ensuring public safety can be difficult. The intersection of veterans and impaired driving can be all the more challenging for treatment courts. This session examines the unique demographics and behaviors of impaired drivers who are veterans to enable your program to respond to their needs.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Adult Drug Treatment Court Phase Overview
Presenter: Carolyn Hardin
Description:
Developing and updating a phase structure is one of the most critical components of all treatment court programs. Phases allow participants a practical way to measure their success and team members a way to measure progress through a rigorous 12-18-month program. This webinar addresses the reasons for and components involved in a phase structure. It includes a sample five-phase structure for high-risk/high-need participants, including court, supervision, and prosocial expectations. It also addresses expectations for phase advancement and commencement.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Veterans Treatment Court Phase Overview
Presenters: Hon. Robert Russell (ret.), Pamela LaMancuso
Description:
Developing and updating a phase structure is one of the most critical components of all treatment court programs. Phases allow participants a practical way to measure their success and team members a way to measure progress through a rigorous 12-18-month program. This webinar addresses the reasons for and components involved in a phase structure. It includes a sample five-phase structure for high-risk/high-need participants, including court, supervision, and prosocial expectations. It also addresses expectations for phase advancement and commencement.
Technical Assistance Training Series: DWI Court Targeting, Eligibility, and Entry
Presenter: Jim Eberspacher
Description:
Not every individual in the justice system is a good candidate for admission into treatment court. This session recognizes the importance of identifying those potential candidates for specific treatment courts who are most likely to benefit from participation in an inclusive and equitable manner. Individuals screened/assessed as being high risk/high need have been shown by research to best fit that description. This session stresses the need for and includes strategies to create and implement objective, systematic identification and admission processes.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Veterans Treatment Court Targeting, Eligibility, and Entry
Presenter: Mary Sullivan
Description:
Not every individual in the justice system is a good candidate for admission into treatment court. This session recognizes the importance of identifying those potential candidates for specific treatment courts who are most likely to benefit from participation in an inclusive and equitable manner. Individuals screened/assessed as being high risk/high need have been shown by research to best fit that description. This session stresses the need for and includes strategies to create and implement objective, systematic identification and admission processes.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Treatment Court Targeting, Eligibility, and Entry
Presenter: Marie Lane
Description:
Not every individual in the justice system is a good candidate for admission into treatment court. This session recognizes the importance of identifying those potential candidates for specific treatment courts who are most likely to benefit from participation in an inclusive and equitable manner. Individuals screened/assessed as being high risk/high need have been shown by research to best fit that description. This session stresses the need for and includes strategies to create and implement objective, systematic identification and admission processes.
Case Management and Planning Strategies for Adult Drug Treatment Courts
Presenter: Jacqueline van Wormer, Ph.D.
Description:
This session introduces participants to the science and research behind the risk-need-responsivity model. Participants will learn how to use assessment findings to create effective, client-informed and -driven plans. We demonstrate the creation of a plan focused on recovery capital needs. We also discuss the role each team member holds in moving the case plan forward for clients and how to center staffing procedures around the case plan.
Technical Assistance Training Series: DWI Guide to Effective Treatment
Presenter: Julie Seitz
Description:
This session outlines the basic concepts of team development. It offers interactive opportunities that discuss the unique, nonadversarial roles team members play in treatment court settings. This presentation introduces the roles for each team member and explains why it is important to hold a pre-case conference, as well as what can be discussed during that meeting.
Technical Assistance Training Series: NDCI Guide to Effective Treatment
Presenter: Marie Crosson
Description:
This session outlines the critical role that treatment providers play in all treatment courts. It describes the components of treatment and how they apply to the treatment court setting. It addresses the need for the court-based team and treatment providers to understand what each other does and how they work together in the court process to further the progress of participants. That understanding furthers the trust that each must hold to make the treatment process effective in the court setting.
Technical Assistance Training Series: Roles and Responsibilities
Presenter: Judge Gregory Pinski (ret.)
Description:
This session outlines the basic concepts of team development and discusses the unique, nonadversarial roles that team members play in treatment court settings. This presentation introduces the roles for each team member and explains why it is important to hold a pre-case conference and what can be discussed during that meeting.
Fentanyl and the Opioid Crisis
Presenter: Steve Hanson
Description:
America's opioid crisis continues to take a toll on communities across the country in the form of overdoses and deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attribute these causalities largely to illegally manufactured fentanyl. Armed with the latest information treatment courts are well positioned to act against this fast-acting and dangerous substance in their communities.
Loan Repayment Opportunity for Substance Use Disorder Counselors and Behavioral Health Professionals
Presenter: Israil Ali, M.P.A., director, National Health Service Corps; Malissa Lewis, L.L.M., chief, Bureau of Health Workforce
Description:
Pay off your school loans with up to $250,000 from the Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program (STAR LRP) in exchange for six years of full-time service at an approved facility. Behavioral health clinicians, paraprofessionals, clinical support staff and many others trained in substance use disorder treatment who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents (includes lawful permanent residents or “green card” holders) are encouraged to apply.
The Role of Probation: Coach Versus Referee
Presenter: Dr. Brian Lovins, principal, Justice System Partners and president-elect, American Probation and Parole Association
Description:
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.
Trauma Informed Treatment Courts
Presenters: Dr. Christopher Wilson, director, Being Trauma Informed; Judge Shaun Floerke, district court judge, 6th Judicial District of Minnesota
Description:
Research has drawn strong correlations between trauma and substance use disorders, raising the issue of what our treatment courts can do to be trauma-informed. In this 1.5 hour webinar, Judge Shaun Floerke and Dr. Chris Wilson will set the stage for participants with a brief overview of the impact of trauma on the brain, from both a neuropsychological and evolutionary perspective, and then provide several concrete ways a treatment court team can be trauma informed. The focus of the 90 minutes will be on the practical implementation of the science.
Recovery Capital and Treatment Courts: A New Approach to Improve Client Outcomes
Presenter: Jacqueline van Wormer, Ph.D.
Description: While using substance use disorder treatment is critical in the treatment court model, what other elements are important to bring about long-term recovery for clients? Research over the past two decades has found that individuals with strong concentrations of personal, social, and community capital are more likely to sustain long-term recovery. But what exactly does this mean, and how do we operationalize this in the treatment court model? This session introduces participants to the concept and definition of recovery capital. The current research findings on the importance of assessing and building personal, social, and community capital to strengthen long-term recovery (long past the exit from treatment court) will be reviewed. Teams will learn how to move these concepts into practice throughout their program, with a specific focus on applying the recovery capital framework in staffing and case management.
Peer Recovery Services: Breaking Barriers, Sharing Solutions
Presenter: Julie Seitz, L.G.S.W., L.A.D.C.; Beth Elstad
Description: These changing times have a significant impact on our communities. Changes to court proceedings, community supervision, treatment services, school closures, and disruption in employment have created additional barriers. The need for recovery community to respond with innovative solutions has never been greater.
Using a multimedia approach, we will cover the fundamentals of peer-based recovery support services, and the need to shift from an acute care model to a recovery-oriented system of care (ROSC). Additionally, this session will demonstrate how they can be adapted in trying times to create new ways to connect to ensure individuals seeking or engaging in recovery have the opportunity experience connection and support.
Improving Client Outcomes: Using Core Correctional Practices in Treatment Courts
Presenter: Melanie Lowenkamp
Description: The webinar will educate probation officers, case managers, treatment providers, and others working in treatment courts on the fundamentals of Core Correctional Practices (CCP). The skills developed through CCP are designed to improve team members’ relationship skills, rapport, motivational enhancement strategies, and cognitive-behavioral problem solving approaches critical to aligning with national best practice standards. While developing these skills among case managers is critical, all team members are encouraged to attend to learn how the skills can be used in various roles in the treatment court.
The one-hour webinar includes an brief overview of the research on CCP, the three main components of CCP (relationship building, motivational enhancement skills, and intervention skills), an example demonstration of one skill within each component and Q&A.
High-Risk Impaired Drivers: Substance Use Disorders, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Challenges with Treatment
Presenter: Steve Hanson
Description: The DWI court population has unique characteristics and responsivity needs, including the high rate of underlying mental health disorders among repeat impaired drivers. When working with this high-risk, high-need population, treatment for both substance use and mental health disorders is critical. If DWI courts aren’t treating the whole person, the likelihood of long-term recovery and success begins to dwindle.
This webinar dives into the challenges of treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. It will address common disorders, barriers to achieving breakthroughs with high-risk/high-need clients, and how to overcome obstacles in treatment.
Mitigating Trauma in the Courthouse by Understanding Changes to the Brain
Presenter: Kim McGinnis, Ph.D., chief judge, Pueblo of Pojoaque
Description: Substance use and trauma change brain architecture, leading to frustrating or unexpected behaviors. This session will discuss structural changes commonly found in the brains of people struggling with substance misuse and trauma, which will help us understand some of our participants' frustrating behaviors.