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The National Drug Court Institute and the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Adult Technical Assistance project are committed to assisting the drug court field in the improvement of continuing care practices. A group of expert drug court practitioners has agreed to assist NDCI in the identification of effective continuing care practices. In addition, NDCI also wants to hear about any unique and effective practices your drug court program uses in this area. We are defining continuing care practices as those activities that your program provides, following the primary treatment intervention, to assist your participants to successfully achieve long-term sobriety and a productive lifestyle. Typical continuing care practices can include employment placement services, vocational training, and educational services, housing assistance, relapse prevention activities along with attending self-help groups. These practices can occur during the later phases of your drug court program as well as after graduation.
NDCI will be producing a document that will include what we have learned from this process along with the information gleaned from a comprehensive literature review and the experiences of the panel of drug court experts. In addition to the document, NDCI will use this process to develop protocols and a cadre of expert practitioners who will be able to provide onsite technical assistance services designed to assist individual drug court programs in the development and implementation of improved continuing care practices. For further information about this initiative and submission of your drug court continuing care practice, please contact or send information to Kermit Kaleba, Training Coordinator, Adult Technical Assistance NDCI at 703-575-9400 ext. 32 or at kkaleba@ndci.org.
Bobbie A. Taylor
National Drug Court Institute
4900 Seminary Road, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA 22311
703.575.9400 extension 16
703.575.9402 (fax)