Adult Treatment Court Foundational Training

The National Drug Court Institute, a division of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), seeks a total grant of $2,750,000 million for 24 months under BJA’s FY2023 Adult Treatment Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resources Center Initiative, Category 1: Adult Treatment Court Foundational Training.

NADCP is the world's premier training and technical assistance organization for justice system responses to substance use disorders, representing more than 35,000 multidisciplinary professionals and community leaders. For more than 29 years, NADCP has managed numerous federally funded TTA projects—including BJA’s Adult Drug Court TTA program and Veterans Treatment Court TTA program—helping jurisdictions plan and implement evidence-based programs that improve public safety and address the underlying substance use disorders that often drive crime.

NADCP has provided TTA to more than 500,000 professionals in every U.S. state and territory and 22 foreign countries using a variety of methods rooted in adult learning theory, including online via its E-Learning Center (www.nadcp.org/e-learning-center/). In addition, NADCP has published over 75 professional monographs, journals, and issue-specific fact sheets and has had more than 800,000 visits to its resource-rich website (www.AllRise.org). All TTA services are customized to the recipient's needs and are measured for impact and effectiveness. NDCI has successfully trained teams to implement adult treatment courts for over two decades.

The project's overarching goal is to transfer knowledge and provide training to jurisdictions seeking to plan a new adult treatment court and grantees identified by BJA requiring additional support as determined by their applications. Together, project partners will achieve this goal by implementing the following objectives: (1) Provide core foundational training to all new BJA-funded FY23 adult treatment court planning and implementation grantees; (2) Provide core foundational training to select BJA-funded FY23 adult treatment court enhancement grantees; (3) Deliver a minimum of 30 foundational trainings to courts seeking to launch a new adult treatment court; (4) Convene practitioner learning communities, and lesson learned reports; (5) Create diffusion products; (6) Select and support ten mentor courts; (7) Offer up to 10 scholarships to jurisdictions planning to start a new adult treatment court to attend a key annual event; (8) Ensure treatment curricula address the implementation of evidence-based treatment, recovery management, trauma-informed care, equity and inclusion, and family engagement; (9) Modify curricula including online modules annually; and (10) Collaborate with BJA and TTA partners. All project activities will be tracked and reported to BJA as required.