Enhancement of the current Mille Lacs County Drug Treatment Court by adding more options to hold drug offenders accountable by using more resources and conducting an evaluation.

The Mille Lacs County Drug Treatment Court in Minnesota's Seventh Judicial District is an adult drug court serving a rural area and provides service to a Native American population in Mille Lacs County. The court accepts pre- and post-adjudicated felony level participants. Four goals identified for Mille Lacs Drug Court include saving lives, enhancing public safety, securing funding, and evaluating the program's outputs. The current maximum capacity is 30 participants. The program expects the total number of participants to receive services over the life of the grant would be approximately 80. The target population is high-risk, high-need offenders who are chemically dependent. Criminogenic risk and need are screened and assessed through the Risk and Needs Triage administered by the Department of Corrections agent during the screening process as supplemented by the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory. The focus will specifically connect to the target population, substance abuse treatment and recovery management, drug testing, performance monitoring and evaluation components of the best practice standards.