2019 Conference
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November 20, 2019
Workshop Session I
A1. Challenges to Taking the 1st Step: Engaging the Veteran Population in Treatment Courts
A2. Equity and Inclusion in Problem Solving Courts
A3. That’s Confidential: The Roles and Responsibilities of Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys in Treatment Courts
A4. Is Marijuana Medicine? What We Know, What We Don’t and How Treatment Courts Can Respond
A5. Identifying Risk Factors and the Use of Cognitive Based Techniques in the Federal Drug Courts
A6. High on Our Highways – The Challenge of Drug Impaired Driving and Community Supervision
A7. Celebrating Families! – Early Intervention Service Model Essential to Success in Drug Court
A8. Drug Court/Jail Collaboration: Special Considerations for Opioid Agonist Treatment for Justice-Involved Populations
A9. How Treatment Courts Can Co-exist in a Community
A10. Overview of Forensic Toxicology
A11. The Vet Center and Drug Court/Veteran Court Relationship
A12. Community Provider Organizations Responses to Opioid Use Disorder: Understanding Best Practices and Developmentally Appropriate Interventions in Management of Opioid Use Disorder Patients
Workshop Session II
B1. Meeting Veteran Population Needs Outside of the VA
B2. What’s Old is New Again: Assessing and Treating Complex PTSD in Adults
B3. The Drug Evaluation and Classification Program/Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Program
B4. An Evaluation of Federal Support in Connecticut
B5. Engagement in Collaborative Treatment: MRT for Opioid Programs
B6. The Invisible Handicap: Identifying and Responding to the Needs of Persons with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Drug Courts
B7. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: What’s the Difference?
B8. Engaging Young Black Males: H.E.A.T (Habilitation Empowerment Accountability Therapy)
B9. Strength Through Difference: An Assessment of Collaboration and Conflict in Multidisciplinary Drug Court Teams
B10. Rhode Island Veterans Treatment Court – Veteran Mentor Program
B11. Comprehensive Approach to Addiction Treatment
B12. Intelligent Recovery: How Technology and Analytics Improve Drug Court Results
Workshop Session III
C1. How to Develop Effective Multidisciplinary Teams
C2. Sanctions and Incentives
C3. The Role of Forensic Toxicology in Drug Impaired Driving Cases
C4. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Unsurprising Place in Drug Courts
C5. Reaching the 33%: How Do We Stop the High-Risk Impaired Driver?
C6. Risk-Need-Responsivity in Drug Courts: Using Data on Program Operations to Strengthen Implementation
C7. Wisdom of the Group: Practices in Effective Meeting Facilitation
C8. Lessons from the Field: National Trends and Promising Practices in Veterans Treatment Courts
C9. Engaging Young Black Males: H.E.A.T (Habilitation Empowerment Accountability Therapy)
C10. Mental Health Courts
C11. Recovery Oriented Systems of Criminal Justice
C12. Technology in Treatment Courts: How Technology Can Address, Supervision and Training Goals
November 21, 2019
P1. Resistant To Treatment? The Powerful Combination of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
P2. Complex Cases Facing Drug Courts: Understanding Current Issues and Challenges of Drug and Other Specialty Courts
P3. The Science of Bias: How Cognition and Motivation Impact Judgment
P4. High in Plain Sight: Current Alcohol and Drug Culture, Trends and Identifiers
P5. Harm Reduction, Supervised Consumption and the Drug Court Model
P6. Combatting the Opioid Epidemic Utilizing Medicated Assisted Treatment While Incarcerated
P7. Leveraging New Policy Opportunities to Promote Greater Health and Justice
P8. Opiates and Opioids: From the Sumerians to the Fentayls
Workshop Session I
D1. Working with Methamphetamine Offenders
D2. Try a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) on Your Treatment Team?
D3. Transcending Self Therapy: A New Integrative Holistic Treatment for Substance Abuse
D4. The Matter of Motivation: Motivational Interviewing for Treatment Courts
D5. Designer Drugs: You Can’t Stop What You Don’t Know
D6. When Theory Meets Practice: Exploring Strategies to Reduce Biased Judgments
D7. The Treatment Pathways Program
D8. Lessons from the Field: In-depth examination of VTC eligibility criteria and target population
D9. Restorative Processes for Treatment Court Teams: Building Trust and Improving Professional Relationships
D10. Prison to Practice – Vermont’s Solution
D11. CCAR Recovery Coach Workshop
D12. Protecting Public Safety: The Recovery Alliance, Career Balance and Building Alternative Programs