Announcements

Adult Drug Treatment Court Case Manager/Resource Specialist
Cecil County Circuit Court is seeking a Case Manager - Resource Specialist (PDF)
Job Description (PDF)

DRUG COURT MONTH 2008

DEADLINE FOR DRUG COURT MONTH EVENT CALENDARS & '2008' - "MOST INNOVATIVE DRUG COURT PROGRAM"

APRIL 28, 2008 DTCC@MDCOURTS.GOV

Please see your Drug Court Coordinator to begin planning!!!!
Drug Court Month Letter (Word) - 2008 NDCM Field Kit MO (Word)

To All Drug Court Team Members Using SMART
SMART will be shut down Friday, February 29th - all day, while IGSR builds a new release on their servers. If you need anything from SMART on Friday, Please print off paper copies of Intakes, Progress Reports, Admissions, ASI's, etc. printed off before by the close of business on Thursday, February 28, 2008. A notice has already been placed on the SMART Announcements so this should be old news to you.

Please note: SMART will be reactivated over the weekend with the new release and available to folks on Monday.

To see what changes are being made to SMART click on SMART Update March 2008 KSL Drug Court - PDF.

For more SMART Tip Sheets please go to the ADAA website

SAMHSA's Road to Recovery Update
The Road to Recovery Update keeps you informed about activities leading up to National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) in September.

Friday, December 21, 2008 - USA TODAY, page 3A: "More Places Turning to Drug Courts"
As the largest daily newspaper in the country with a daily print circulation of 2.3 million as well as 10 million visitors to their website, DRUG COURTS will be major news today! The USA TODAY ran a compelling story describing the drug court model, highlighting strong statistics and promoting its past and future growth. The caption under a large photo of Brooklyn Treatment Court Graduate, Damon Fuseyamore, says it all. "Ten years of sobriety: Damon Fuseyamore kisses a medallion he received after graduating from a Brooklyn, N.Y. treatment program. 'I had a choice of doing time or changing my life'." Pick up your hard copy today! http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-20-alternativecourts_N.htm

Two congressional leaders held a hearing at the University of Maryland School of Law yesterday to learn more about Baltimore's drug treatment and violence reduction programs.

NADCP is pleased to announce...
Teams may now apply for the Adult Drug Court Planning Initiative Trainings (DCPI) for 2008. The Adult DCPI is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI). The Adult DCPI trainings are designed for communities interested in developing an adult drug court program. A cadre of drug court practitioners will work with planning teams to develop their policy and procedure manual. The trainings fulfill three interconnected goals: 1) educating teams about the basic components of drug court; 2) providing teams with the skills necessary for successfully making the shift from standard case processing to drug court case processing; and 3) educating teams about how to build their programs with an emphasis on cultural competency, while integrating court and treatment functions. To qualify for the training program, 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 the full week-long training. The Bureau of Justice Assistance will cover hotel accommodations and per diem expenses for teams selected to attend the Adult DCPI trainings. Transportation costs to the training site will be the responsibility of the attendees. Topics include, but are not limited to, team building, psychopharmacology, mission statement, goals and objectives, target population, treatment, community supervision, drug testing, relapse, incentives and sanctions, confidentiality and ethics, evaluation/MIS and sustainability. To register for this initiative, please visit the Drug Court Planning Initiative page on the BJA website @ http://dcpi.ncjrs.gov/dcpi/dcpi_online_appl.html.

The closing date for this application is Monday, October 15, 2007.

Thank you for your continued support of this effort. If you have any questions, please contact Suzanne Byrnes at the National Drug Court Institute at 703-575-9400, ext. 33 or by e-mail at sbyrnes@ndci.org.

The Daily Record reports that “Last month, the Honorable Allen L. Schwait laid down his gavel and turned in his robe. But not for long. Starting last week, Schwait began presiding over the Baltimore City Circuit Court Drug Treatment Court. Judges generally rotate into the court every six months; however, Schwait will now preside over it indefinitely.”

NADCP is pleased to announce...
NPC Research has found that Family Treatment Drug Courts are more successful than traditional child welfare case processing in helping substance-abusing parents enter and complete treatment and reunify with their children. In 2002, NPC Research received funding from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) to conduct the first large-scale outcome study of FTDCs, specialized courts designed to work with substance-abusing parents involved with the child welfare system. To download the Full Report, Executive Summary, or a two-page Key Outcome Findings, click through to NPC Research's news page.

Register Today and Save $200 on CADCA'S National Leadership Forum XVII!

Registration is open for the 2007 Maryland Drug Court Winter Symposium. Hosted by: The Drug Treatment Court Commission of Maryland with assistance from the National Drug Court Institute. Registration Forms (Adult & Juvenile forms - MS Word documents) and Daily Agenda (PDF). Please print the forms and fax or email a completed form by February 1, 2007. Training is free, space is limited, we strongly encourage car pooling to conserve parking spaces for all attendees.

Putting the Pieces Together for Children and Families:
The National Conference on Substance Abuse, Child Welfare and the Courts

Pre-Conference Symposium - Behavior and the Brain: Prevention and Intervention for Children Across the Developmental Stages
January 31-February 2, 2007
Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California

Drug Court Grant Application FY2007

Prisoner Reentry Initiative Announced
BJA is pleased to announce the release of the FY 2006 grant announcement for the Prisoner Reentry Initiative www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/reentry.html. This initiative is a comprehensive effort that addresses both juvenile and adult populations of serious, high-risk offenders and is accomplished by preparing targeted offenders to successfully return to their communities. (BJA)

 The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announces plans to fund new grants to community-based providers in in response to RFA #06-001, Enhancing Practice Improvement in Community-Based Care for Prevention and Treatment of Drug Abuse or Co-Occurring Drug Abuse and Mental Disorders. For more information, see www.grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-06-001.html