Recovery Courts: Where Justice, Treatment and Recovery Meet

Conference Goal 

We will bring together justice professionals, treatment/recovery specialists, and community partners to identify principles and practical solutions that will strengthen the region’s response to substance use disorder and facilitate the expansion of recovery and specialty courts. 

Objectives 

Participants will be able to:

• Receive an update on the current status of all recovery and specialty courts, and leave the conference with a better understanding of how they operate to reduce recidivism and return clients of the recovery courts to the community as contributing members
• Learn about effective past, present, and future responses
• Discuss current effective recovery court cognitive models and be familiar with responses to integrative care
• Learn about the fundamentals of recovery courts, veteran courts, mental health courts, and family treatment court operations 
• Identify the basis of recovery management as an enhancement to other treatment modalities
• Understand how to improve case outcomes using Evidence Based Practice and case management tools in introductory and advanced recovery court operations
• Promote peer and expert exchanges to provide support to recovery courts and specialty courts