Drug Court Co-Occurring Track 2

What is it?

What do we do?

How to Refer?

The Drug Court Co-occurring Track is a special Court program given the responsibility to handle cases involving offenders with both mental health diagnoses and substance abuse disorders through supervision and treatment. These programs include such things as: frequent drug testing, judicial and probation supervision, counseling, medication, educational opportunities, co-occurring treatment and the use of sanctions and incentives. The Judge is much more involved in supervising Drug Court Co-occurring track participants than is customary for individuals who are simply placed in a standard probationary or diversionary program.

22nd Judicial District Drug Court Co-occurring track will strive to reduce recidivism of individuals in the criminal justice system that have mental illness and provide community protection with a cost effective, integrated continuum of care through the utilization of integrated substance abuse and mental health services concurrently and community resources.  It will use the law as a therapeutic agent to improve the quality of lives within the community.  This will be done by increased collaborations between the Court, counsel, state and local government agencies, and community mental health treatment services by providing individualized, culturally competent, trauma-informed, evidenced based services based upon participant’s level of need. The program will hold defendants accountable and helping them achieve long-term stability to become law- abiding citizens and successful family and community members.

The expectations in each participant’s case plan are individualized. The requirements are designed on a case-by-case basis to best meet the needs and abilities of each individual participant, phase by phase. Each participant has a case manager to provide monitoring, accountability, and service coordination.

Specialty Courts are Post-adjudication. Offenders with an indication of a serious drug addiction dependency are sentenced to a Specialty Court and must be accepted by the District Attorney as well as felony probation.