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NOTE: All sessions have been approved for CLE and CEU credits unless otherwise noted.
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| Outside Archie Griffin Ballroom, Floor 2 | Registration | ||
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Plenary Session - Participant perspectives: How treatment court changed my life The Ten Key Components provide the foundational elements of any treatment court across the country. Ohio’s certification standards are rooted in these components and how to most effectively implement them into specialized docket practice across the state. This plenary session will provide an interactive, moderated discussion with graduates from four of Ohio’s certified dockets, highlighting how the application of the Ten Key Components impacted their individual experiences in a specialized docket as well as their ultimate success. FACULTY: A1: Mock Treatment Team Staffing: Improving Adult Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Treatment Team Meetings One of the foundational components of any specialized docket is ensuring that pre-court treatment team meetings are engaging and supportive of the program participants. Bringing together agencies to form a strong collaboration is centered on effective communication, clarity of roles, alignment of program goals and judicial leadership. This presentation will showcase how the Summit County Common Pleas Adult Drug Court has implemented strategies that ensure their treatment team meetings align with best practices, strengthen collaboration, and effectively support program participants and their families. FACULTY A2: Mock Treatment Team Staffing: Improving Outcomes through Effective Juvenile Drug Court Treatment Team Meetings One of the foundational components of any specialized docket is ensuring that pre-court treatment team meetings are engaging and supportive of the program participants and their families. Bringing together agencies to form a strong collaboration is centered on effective communication, clarity of roles, alignment of program goals and judicial leadership. This presentation will showcase how the Lorain County Juvenile Drug Court has implemented strategies that ensure their treatment team meetings align with best practices, strengthen collaboration, and effectively support program participants and their families. FACULTY C1: Mock Treatment Team Status Hearings: Improving Adult Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Status Hearings This interactive simulation will provide a visual representation of the best practices employed by the Summit County Common Pleas Adult Drug Court during status hearings. Attendees will witness strategies to effectuate effective judicial interaction with docket participants. Additionally, innovate examples of therapeutic responses to behavior will be provided. FACULTY C2: Mock Treatment Team Status Hearings: Improving Juvenile Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Status Hearings This interactive simulation will provide a visual representation of the best practices employed by the Lorain County Juvenile Drug Court during status hearings. Attendees will witness strategies to effectuate effective judicial interaction with docket participants and ensure a family centered approach. Additionally, innovate examples of therapeutic responses to behavior will be provided. FACULTY B1: Risk-Need-Responsivity Theory and Case Management for Drug Courts There are as many as 60 risk assessment tools in use in jurisdictions across the United States. These tools are diverse in form, length, and content. Some tools incorporate comprehensive risk and need assessments that require a defendant interview. Beyond risk classification, these longer tools offer the benefit of assessing the severity of treatable needs that are often linked to criminal behavior (“criminogenic needs”). Despite the inherent challenges of applying risk classifications to individual cases based on group behavior, these tools can be invaluable in helping drug court teams make case management decisions. This presentation will cover the basics of risk-need-responsivity theory and how applying the theory can aid practitioners in drug court case management—including supervision and case planning. FACULTY B2: Can I use Google for that? Finding Expert Interpreters for Diverse Populations As technology skyrockets at the speed of light, what are the prospects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us communicate with the linguistic diversity we see in the courts? This work shop will focus on analyzing the work of interpreters, challenges of AI, and finding alternative language resources for languages that are difficult to find. The presentation will also provide an overview of the legal requirements to provide language access in the courts. FACULTY B3: Buprenorphine Regulation in Ohio
FACULTY B4: Engagement and Early Recovery - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing One of the foundational elements of an effective Family Treatment Court is ensuring that pre-court treatment team meeting and the status review hearings are engaging and supporting for families. Bringing together agencies to form a strong collaboration is centered on effective communication, clarity of roles, alignment of program goals and judicial leadership. This presentation will provide strategies that ensure your pre-court treatment team meeting and status review hearings align with best practices, strengthen your collaborative and effectively support families. FACULTY B5: Combating 21st Century Drugs with Successful Outcomes A comprehensive lecture and discussion of Fentanyl, Molly, Kratom, Methamphetamine and other 21st century designer drugs, their correlation to fatal overdoses and how to incorporate them into an effective drug testing program, including drug testing methodologies, the interpretation of drug tests results and case studies to engage the audience in making informed decisions that will promote successful outcomes among treatment court participants. FACULTY D1: Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT); Veterans out of the Darkness into the Light MRT is a cognitive-behavioral counseling program that combines education, group and individual counseling, and structured exercises designed to foster moral development in treatment-resistant clients. FACULTY D2: Evidence Based Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders The field of mental health and substance abuse treatment services continues to enhance and advance the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver effective interventions. Included in these advancements is an increased understanding of dynamics that are unique to particular cross-sections of the treatment population—dynamics essential to master in order to have the greatest possible impact on positive client outcomes. This presentation will review the evidence base and best practices considerations associated with the provision of treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (COD). Included in this session will be a review of the Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) model, implications of the Dual Diagnosis Capability (DDC) model and a summary of additional practice approaches known to be effective with this target population. FACULTY D3: Ethics in Specialized Docket Courts Participants will learn how to conform their professional conduct to the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct and Ohio Ethics Law when running a specialized docket court. The workshop will also focus on the ethical framework for contracting and working with treatment providers and other non-profits based on advisory opinions issued by the Board of Professional Conduct. A segment of the workshop will also detail the Ohio exception to the general rule concerning ex parte communications. FACULTY D4: Supporting the Parent Child Relationship - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing This interactive simulation will provide a visual representation of the information shared during the previous session. Attendees will witness strategies to improve communication, clarify roles and responsibilities, ensure a family centered approach and strengthen collaboration. Additionally, innovate examples of therapeutic responses to behavior will be provided. FACULTY D5: Target Populations and Assessment This session will describe the appropriate Juvenile Drug Treatment Court (JDTC) target population; help attendees understand the research and science behind risk and need assessments and how to use such assessments to identify appropriate JDTC participants; and offer standard eligibility criteria that result in equity of access in JDTCs for all genders, racial/ethnic groups, and LGBTQI-GNC and Two-Spirit youth. FACULTY E1: Risk-Need-Responsivity Theory and Case Management for Drug Courts There are as many as 60 risk assessment tools in use in jurisdictions across the United States. These tools are diverse in form, length, and content. Some tools incorporate comprehensive risk and need assessments that require a defendant interview. Beyond risk classification, these longer tools offer the benefit of assessing the severity of treatable needs that are often linked to criminal behavior (“criminogenic needs”). Despite the inherent challenges of applying risk classifications to individual cases based on group behavior, these tools can be invaluable in helping drug court teams make case management decisions. This presentation will cover the basics of risk-need-responsivity theory and how applying the theory can aid practitioners in drug court case management—including supervision and case planning. FACULTY E2: The Maryhaven Addiction Stabilization Center In this presentation, participants will receive an overview of the innovative Maryhaven Addiction Stabilization Center (MASC). MASC is a nationally unique treatment facility created in Columbus, Ohio to provide immediate access to care to individuals who have overdosed on opiates. This presentation will cover various aspects of this ambitious project, ranging from development and implementation to operations and challenges and successes. FACULTY E3: With the Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Distinguishing Non-Addicted Social Users from Addicts in the Initial Phase of Addiction This presentation will review an operational definition of addiction that allows for distinguishing non-addicted social use of mood-altering chemicals from the patterns of using experienced in the initial stage of addiction. This is a particularly critical issue in our society because, to the casual observer, the non-addict and addict in the first phase of a substance use disorder can appear identical. The specific characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes identifying each will be compared. Attention will be paid to the implications for assessment and treatment as well as some differences in populations. FACULTY E4: Assessing Readiness for Reunification - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing This presentation will explore the impact of parental substance use on the parent-child relationship and describe the essential service components needed to facilitate reunification and strengthening the parent-child relationship. Essential elements such as ensuring quality parenting time and contact, implementation of evidence-based services inclusive of parent education, therapeutic services and access to ongoing family recovery support will be highlighted. This workshop discussion will explore family readiness as a collaborative practice issue by raising the need for coordinated case plans and effective communication protocols across child welfare, treatment and court systems. Discussion will explore different program designs across sites including the timing and phasing of reunification, family maintenance supervision and case termination. FACULTY E5: Evidence-Based Practices and Treatment Participants will learn why utilizing evidence-based treatment modalities is critical to positive program outcomes in Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTCs), as well as the various types of cognitive-behavioral modalities, family therapies and trauma-informed care processes that should be utilized in a JDTC program. The audience also will learn how to develop case plans and treatment plans that best meet the needs of youth and families in a JDTC program. FACULTY |
9 - 9:30 a.m. | 9:30 - 11 a.m. | 11 - 11:45 a.m. |
| Archie Griffin Ballroom | Welcome | Plenary Session - Participant perspectives: How treatment court changed my life | Lunch Break (set up near registration) |
| Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. | 2 - 4 p.m. | ||
| Great Hall 1, 2 & 3, Floor 1 | A1: Mock Treatment Team Staffing: Improving Adult Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Treatment Team Meetings - Adult Programs | C1: Mock Treatment Team Status Hearings: Improving Adult Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Status Hearings - Adult | |
| Cartoon Rooms 1 & 2, Floor 3 | A2: Mock Treatment Team Staffing: Improving Outcomes through Effective Juvenile Drug Court Treatment Team Meetings - Juvenile Programs | C2: Mock Treatment Team Status Hearings: Improving Juvenile Drug Court Outcomes through Effective Status Hearings - Juvenile | |
| 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. | 1:15 - 2:30 p.m. | 2:45 - 4 p.m. | |
| Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Floor 2 | B1: Risk-Need-Responsivity Theory and Case Management for Drug Courts COB CREDIT APPROVED |
D1: Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT); Veterans Out of the Darkness Into the Light COB CREDIT APPROVED |
E1: Risk-Need-Responsivity Theory and Case Management for Drug Courts COB CREDIT APPROVED |
| Senate Chamber, Floor 2 | B2: Can I Use Google for That? Finding Expert Interpreters for Diverse Populations | D2: Evidence Based Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders COB CREDIT APPROVED |
E2: The Maryhaven Addiction Stabilization Center |
| Student Alumni Council Room, Floor 2 | B3: Buprenorphine Regulation in Ohio NOT APPROVED FOR CEU |
D3: Ethics In Specialized Docket Courts PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT CREDIT APPROVED NOT APPROVED FOR CEU |
E3: With the Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Distinguishing Non-Addicted Social Users from Addicts in the Initial Phase of Addiction COB CREDIT APPROVED |
| US Bank Theater, Floor 1 | B4: Engagement and Early Recovery - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing COB CREDIT APPROVED |
D4: Supporting the Parent Child Relationship - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing | E4: Assessing Readiness for Reunification - Putting Knowledge into Practice: Simulated Family Treatment Team and Status Review Hearing |
| Interfaith Prayer and Reflection Room, Floor 3 | B5: Combating 21st Century Drugs with Successful Outcomes | D5: Target Populations and Assessment | E5: Evidence-Based Practices and Treatment |
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NOTE: All sessions have been approved for CLE and CEU credits unless otherwise noted.
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F1: Ethical Considerations in Medication Assisted Treatment It is more important than ever that practitioners in the field acknowledge and overcome all obstacles to the use of MAT in conjunction with behavioral health interventions. The decision to begin or end Medication Assisted Treatment is made between the individual and the medical provider, but the criminal justice system can play a key role in facilitating an individual’s recovery process and reducing the likelihood of recidivism. The presentation will provide a roadmap that practitioners can use to orient their justice activities for clients on MAT. Considerations for criminal justice practitioners include identifying partners, establishing communication protocols, and use of incentives or sanctions. FACULTY F2: Drug Testing 101 Effective drug testing in Drug Court is essential to the overall success of the program. This presentation is designed to be a comprehensive review designed to provide information and strategies for building and maintaining a successful abstinence monitoring program. Collection strategies and result interpretation - two essential components of a credible testing program will be discussed. Attendees will learn the reasons for testing; how to select clients for maximum abstinence surveillance; and what specimens yield the best results. Additional focus issues will include controlling sample tampering and the use of creatinine measurements, the application of EtG/EtS monitoring, the challenges of on-site testing, dispelling popular drug testing myths and much more. This session is intended to encourage practitioners to know more about drug testing than their clients. FACULTY F3: Nudged into Recovery: Evidence-Based Practices for Criminal Justice Populations (part 1) The risk, need, responsivity (RNR) principle has been heralded as the standard for assessing and treating substance using offender populations. Each principle identifies tools, strategies, and approaches that result in significant reductions in recidivism. The presentation will summarize the overall theoretical foundations of the RNR model and then proceed to define each component in-depth. After each definition a practical application of how this is implemented within the local Drug Court docket and treatment agency will be explained. This will include discussing different cognitive-behavioral models, core correctional practices, assessment tools, and fidelity measurements. Finally, a demonstration of the curriculum involving volunteers will occur. FACULTY F4: What Do We Really Think About Fathers This provocative presentation explores a unique perspective on fathers and how the unconscious biases that we carry with us and that exist in various parts of the system impact how we treat and support fathers. As men and women experience, respond to, and recover from trauma differently, the importance of trauma-informed services and gender-specific programming will also be addressed. The presentation also offers practical guidance and tools to better support dads in community-based and child protective services. FACULTY F5: OhioMHAS and Behavioral Health* Regulation The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is statutorily responsible for the regulatory oversight of behavioral health community and residential treatment providers, private psychiatric inpatient hospitals, and “non-treatment” residential facilities. This presentation will provide a detailed overview of the types of entities and clinical services that MHAS regulates, when licensure and/or certification is required or optional, and when it is prohibited. The presentation will provide a general overview of routine and complaint-based processes, what a court might generally expect of a licensed/certified treatment provider, as well as what a treatment provider cannot do. FACULTY F6: Engaging Families, Communities and Schools
FACULTY F7: Teleservices: Using Technology to Enhance Treatment Court Operations In today’s tech-savvy world, computers, smartphones, and videoconferencing offer new opportunities for drug courts to enhance treatment delivery, client supervision, and staff training. The Center for Court Innovation, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, has piloted technology initiatives with problem-solving courts in Idaho, Illinois, Montana, West Virginia, and Ohio. These jurisdictions are using technology to increase capacity, address treatment barriers, supervise clients, and provide training for staff. This presentation will include a practical discussion about technology implementation in drug courts and a preview of some technological advances that are on the horizon for problem-solving courts. Audience members will also learn how to access online training resources for drug court professional through the Center’s Treatment Courts Online website. FACULTY F8: Checklist to Change– Monitoring and Responding to Participant Behavior and Using Effective Drug Testing Families involved in the child welfare system and affected by parental substance use disorders face a difficult and arduous journey towards achieving their recovery and reunification goals within the time limits set forth by ASFA. Family Treatment Courts (FTCs) provide a pathway for achieving positive outcomes through interagency collaboration, coordinated and comprehensive service delivery, effective drug testing and enhanced accountability. The phasing system of the FTC model, in particular, provides participants and the team visible steps for measuring progress and success. Many FTCs have moved beyond the traditional pre‐set phasing structure focused on compliance, drug test results and completing a checklist of requirements to one that accounts for parents’ strengths, readiness, and desire behavioral change. FTCs are shifting their drug testing strategies away from a stand-alone monitoring tool towards a piece of a more comprehensive, collaborative approach to monitoring and supporting behavior change. This presentation will explore the innovative and meaningful approach FTCs have adopted to better assess and prepare families for successful recovery and reunification. Attendees will be encouraged to define what “success” means for participant families by examining program requirements around drug testing protocols and expectations of perfect vs. safe, compliance vs. adherence, and treatment vs. recovery. FACULTY F9: Sustaining Your Specialized Docket: This is Not Show Me The Money By attending this session attendees will have an understanding of the four keys to sustaining a specialized docket. Attendees will be able to describe the elements of the four keys to sustaining a specialized docket. Christine will provide free tools incorporating the four keys to sustainability that attendees can utilize to create their own sustainability plan. FACULTY F10: Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Co-occurring Combat Related Conditions The United States was at war in Afghanistan and Iraq for over 10 years. Over 2.7 million people served in one or both of these war zones, including an unprecedented number of Reserve and National Guard personnel. Many experienced multiple deployments, extended tours, and decreased breaks from combat. Most people returning from war zones have stress reactions and will need to readjust to being home. This can be especially intense during the first months after returning. It is important to understand these stress reactions and their relationship to intimate partner violence (IPV) to conduct adequate risk assessment and safety planning. This understanding is also important to provide effective information and referrals to victims whose partners have been exposed to the trauma of combat and are exhibiting violent or abusive behavior. These common stress reactions are a normal part of readjustment. Anger, anxiety, fear, aggression, and/or withdrawal are common war-zone stress reactions. Even minor incidents can lead to over reactions. Stress reactions and problems that last for months or even years can affect relationships, work, and overall well-being if not addressed. A person may be coping with stress by drinking, taking drugs, withdrawing, isolating, and/or he/she may be having sleep problems, bad dreams or nightmares, or sudden emotional outbursts. He/she may also startle easily and have problems trusting others. These issues can lead to people becoming involved with the criminal justice system. FACULTY G1: How to Implement Change Using the Best Practice Standards In 2013, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals published Volume I of the ground-breaking Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards. In 2015, Volume II of the Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards was released. These standards provide practical, implementable, and enforceable guidance on how Drug Courts are to operate in 10 critical areas. The crosswalk of national standards and state mandates provide a framework for long-term sustainability. This session will discuss how the application of the standards across programs help to increase outcomes, build program sustainability and best serve the target population. FACULTY G2: Mistakes Drug Courts Make and How to Fix Them Both research and drug court participants’ experiences demonstrate that drug courts are more effective than conventional criminal courts in helping participants heal from their alcohol and drug problems, decrease re-offending, and become productive members of society. How do we make them even more effective? How do we move drug courts from good to great? The answer requires close examination of possible flaws in the way drug courts conduct their work. This presentation identifies a dozen mistakes that drug courts make and how to fix them. It is designed to make you think about how you run your drug court and what you might be able to do to improve its functioning and effectiveness. FACULTY G3: Nudged into Recovery: Evidence-Based Practices for Criminal Justice Populations (Part 2) A continuation from part 1. The risk, need, responsivity (RNR) principle has been heralded as the standard for assessing and treating substance using offender populations. Each principle identifies tools, strategies, and approaches that result in significant reductions in recidivism. The presentation will summarize overall theoretical foundations of the RNR model and then proceed to define each component in-depth. After each definition a practical application of how this is implemented within the local Drug Court docket and treatment agency will be explained. This will include discussing different cognitive-behavioral models, core correctional practices, assessment tools, and fidelity measurements. Finally, a demonstration of the curriculum involving volunteers will occur. FACULTY G4: Engaging Fathers More Effectively This presentation offers guidance and tools to better support dads in community-based and child protective services. This presentation will offer a more comprehensive look into the A Man’s Way Model by offering engagement strategies for fathers, as well as additional experiential and case conceptualization exercises that will expand the knowledge and clinical effectiveness of participants in working with fathers in the behavioral health field. FACULTY G5: Military Culture in Treatment Courts The military possesses a distinct culture. Those who serve in the military take that culture with them even after they are no longer in uniform. Boot camp, occupational specialty, service branch, and combat experience all affect service members, usually for the better, for the rest of their lives. In dealing with justice-involved Veterans, it is important to understand they differ from those who have not served and, sometimes, from each other. FACULTY G6: Risk, Needs, Responsivity (RNR), Case Management and Supervision (part 1)
FACULTY G7: OhioMHAS Specialized Docket Program Overview This breakout session will present information on the Addiction Treatment Program (ATP) and the Specialized Docket Subsidy program. The ATP provides funding for participants in a medication assisted treatment drug or family dependency court and has expanded to 54 counties throughout Ohio. The Specialized Docket Subsidy program provides funding to approximately 140 specialized dockets. Participants will be provided information on how OhioMHAS administers both programs and will have an opportunity to ask questions. FACULTY G8: Ready‐Set‐Go! 5 Key Planning Decisions to Help You Successfully Launch Your Family Treatment Court As the number of children in foster care continue to rise, communities across the state are seeking strategies to improve outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare system affected by parental substance use disorders (SUDs). The Family Treatment Court (FTC) model continues to garner attention nationwide and across Ohio as a promising solution for families affected by SUD and practitioners are seeking guidance on how to thoughtfully plan and launch an FTC program. This presentation will explore essential decision points your Planning Team will encounter to ensure that your FTC is truly a collaborative effort designed to achieve improved outcomes for children and families. Drawing from the experiences of successful FTC leaders and the steps outlined in the newly published Family Drug Court Planning Guide (National Drug Court Institute, 2018), this presentation will share strategies and lessons to help make your planning process a success! Regardless of your role or discipline or where you are in the planning and implementation process, this presentation and highlighted resources will equip your team with the knowledge needed to successfully accomplish your vision to improve outcomes for children and families. FACULTY G9: Intersection of Drug Trafficking and Human Trafficking This presentation will explore the intersection between the opioid epidemic and human trafficking by addressing the crossover barriers to success presented when these two issues collide. The discussion will include cases studies as well as the federal and state legal principles at play when substance use is used by traffickers to create a coercive scheme to compel a victim’s labor or commercial sex acts. The presenter will also highlight best practices to end the cycle of exploitation through victim identification, enhanced collaboration, and progressive prosecution strategies. FACULTY G10: Psychosis 101 Nearly 10 percent of Americans have experienced symptoms of psychosis during their lives. Though most experiences of psychosis are relatively brief, some individuals will go on to experience persistent or recurring episodes of psychosis. Illnesses with persistent psychosis arise from a variety of medical conditions. Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed when medical causes of persistent psychosis cannot be detected. Within “schizophrenia” exist several distinct subgroups that can differ markedly with respect to clinical course and medication response. Though the justice system was not developed with the goal of attending to the psychiatric needs of the schizophrenia-affected, individuals with schizophrenia are encountered more commonly in the justice system than in the general population. Interactions within the justice system represent opportunities to meaningfully contribute to the long-term recovery of schizophrenia-affected individuals. Successful interactions will also decrease the risk for recidivism. Unfortunately, there are also possibilities within this system to cause potentially-irreversible harms to these unusually vulnerable members of society. This presentation will focus on good-practices, best-practices, and to-be-avoided practices in working with the schizophrenia-affected. FACULTY H1: Transitioning to Best Practice Standards – Five Phase Model There are important reasons for the framework that phases provide for a treatment court program. Perhaps most importantly, it gives the participants visible steps to measure success. Treatment courts tend to be long, rigorous programs, lasting one to two years. Giving the program structure gives the participant bite size pieces to tear off and digest. It also allows the team to measure—somewhat objectively—how well the participant is progressing through the program requirements. This session gives an overview of the necessity of distinct phases for a treatment court participant to progress through on their journey towards commencement from treatment court. This presentation will provide the team with an understanding of how to design phases and court requirements. FACULTY H2: The Paths from Trauma to Legal Offenses and How to Help Divert Them SAMHSA declared in 2013 that the experience of trauma is so common in criminal cases that it is almost universal. The questions are Why and How? There are many pathways that lead from trauma to legal offending that pass through intermediate factors such as changes in the brain, changes in behavior, post-traumatic stress, pain, insomnia, substance use, and violence. This presentation will lay out those pathways and discuss what courts can do to help traumatized people involved in the legal system to address their problems so that they do not re-offend. FACULTY H3: The Context of Violence: Why it Matters Anyone who works with intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors knows that not all incidents are the same; each incident occurs within a larger context. Examining the context of the violence requires going deeper than just the incident to the history and obtaining information about the intent, meaning, and effect of the violence. Knowing the context of the violence clarifies what a person is experiencing, helps to determine the level of risk and danger, and informs appropriate interventions and safety planning. This is important when incidents involve people with no military connection as well as military personnel and veterans and their families. Grouping all acts of violence together distorts the understanding of who is doing what to whom, with what intent and effect, and who needs protection from whom. It is important to understand the answers to these questions to know which community interventions might be effective in holding the perpetrator accountable for ending the violence and in enhancing the victim’s safety. Misunderstandings about the context of the violence can have dangerous or even fatal consequences, as indicated by analyses of intimate partner homicides. FACULTY H4: Engaging Fathers More Effectively (repeated) This presentation offers guidance and tools to better support dads in community-based and child protective services. This presentation will offer a more comprehensive look into the A Man’s Way Model by offering engagement strategies for fathers, as well as additional experiential and case conceptualization exercises that will expand the knowledge and clinical effectiveness of participants in working with fathers in the behavioral health field. FACULTY H5: Peer Recovery Support 101 Recovery support services, including peer recovery support, are an integral part of the community behavioral health system and provide individuals with a lived experience an opportunity to earn a livable wage. Peer recovery supporters are individuals with a personal lived experience, active in recovery, who provide individual or group support to others who are attempting to begin or maintain their path to recovery. Peer recovery supporters work to inspire hope, provide advocacy, and deliver empathetic trauma informed services. FACULTY H6: Risk, Needs, Responsivity (RNR), Case Management and Supervision (part 2) This is a continuation of part 1, where participants will learn the research and key findings behind the risk/needs/responsivity (RNR) model and why this model is highly applicable to the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court (JDTC) population. They also will learn the various types of valid juvenile assessments and screening tools currently available, and the appropriate use of these tools compared to case and treatment plans, as well as learn how to develop case and treatment plans that best meet the needs of youth and families in JDTCs. FACULTY H7: Conversations that Change: Using Motivational Interviewing in the Courtroom Without a clinical background, specialized docket judges, coordinators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and treatment team members can improve interactions and outcomes with participants by using conversational techniques grounded in the principles of motivational interviewing. This course will provide a brief overview of the substance use continuum. By understanding the continuum, specialized docket professionals can be equip to understand a participant’s readiness to change. Attendees to this course will learn how to use motivational interviewing techniques in the courtroom to strengthen out-of-court counseling goals and promote positive change. FACULTY H8: SSIP Demonstration Site Meeting This will be a meeting for all of the SSRP demonstration sites. This meeting will allow demonstration sites to share insights, challenges, and allow for peer-to-peer learning and problem solving. Each demonstration site will give a brief update before meeting topics are addressed. FACULTY H9: Developing a Behavioral Response Plan: Going Beyond Incentives and Sanctions In this engaging presentation, Christine lays the foundation for a successful specialized docket behavioral response plan. Attendees will have an understanding of the science behind behavioral interventions for the criminal justice population and how those interventions work within specialized docket programs. Christine will provide a framework and tools needed for specialized docket teams to develop or enhance their current plan. This framework is designed to support specialized docket participants in reaching proximal and distal goals without compromising procedural fairness. Attendees will be provided with an outline of the key points, resources, references, key questions, and grid, to help them in developing or enhancing their behavioral response plans. FACULTY H10: Combating 21st Century Drugs with Successful Outcomes A comprehensive lecture and discussion of Fentanyl, Molly, Kratom, Methamphetamine and other 21st century designer drugs, their correlation to fatal overdoses and how to incorporate them into an effective drug testing program, including drug testing methodologies, the interpretation of drug tests results and case studies to engage the audience in making informed decisions that will promote successful outcomes among treatment court participants. FACULTY I1: Legal Trends Impacting Drug Courts The law is a tool for success and should not be viewed as an obstacle. Drug court professionals must develop a comprehensive understanding of what the law will and will not allow. Learn first-hand how to face challenges relating to ethics, HIPAA, confidentiality, due process, 12-Step programs and the law, and other constitutional requirements. FACULTY I2: Incorporating Motivational Interviewing in Specialized Dockets Helping participants to engage in the treatment process requires the drug court team to use evidence-based practices. Motivational approaches focus on engaging substance users in considering, initiating and continuing substance use treatment while stopping their use of alcohol and other drugs. Motivational approaches involve combining “motivational interviewing” with a stages-of-change model. Stages of change include: pre-contemplation regarding change, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Motivational Interviewing is designed to help participants see what matters to them and helps them to be engaged, feel valued and develop a vested interest in their long-term recovery planning and case management. Through motivational interviewing the participant has buy in and a voice in identifying goals and a value system that gives them a major role in recovery planning. FACULTY I3: Ethical Considerations in Medication Assisted Treatment It is more important than ever that practitioners in the field acknowledge and overcome all obstacles to the use of MAT in conjunction with behavioral health interventions. The decision to begin or end Medication Assisted Treatment is made between the individual and the medical provider, but the criminal justice system can play a key role in facilitating an individual’s recovery process and reducing the likelihood of recidivism. The presentation will provide a roadmap that practitioners can use to orient their justice activities for clients on MAT. Considerations for criminal justice practitioners include identifying partners, establishing communication protocols, and use of incentives or sanctions. FACULTY I4: The Trauma Informed Courtroom Trauma Informed Care may be popular buzzwords, but how can the concept be applied to the courtroom? We will provide a general overview of trauma and the related symptoms. We will look at difficult behaviors and repeat offenders through a trauma-informed lens. Using simple and consistent methods, we will explore how to address challenges as they arise while responding with consistency and compassion. We will explore self-care and peer support as relates to working in a stressful courtroom environment. FACULTY I5: Naloxone (Narcan) Initiatives and the Court System Ohio’s Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided With Naloxone) programs distribute the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone (also known as Narcan), to community members and agencies across the state. Ohio Department of Health staff will provide a background of Project DAWN and naloxone and discuss potential models of working with local courts. A panel of staff from three local Project DAWN programs will describe the unique ways that each program has partnered with local court systems to prevent overdose death using naloxone. FACULTY I6: Winning the War Against High-Risk Impaired Drivers through Assessment Driven Sentencing and Supervision In 2015 there were over 4.7 million individuals in the United States on probation, parole or other forms of community supervision. Of this population, approximately 350,000 men and women have been convicted more than once for driving while intoxicated (DWI). Given high caseloads and competing interests and priorities in community corrections, it can be particularly challenging to determine how to best supervise DWI offenders, determine their risk level, and understand their treatment needs. This interactive presentation will provide the latest information on validated DWI assessment tools including the Impaired Driver Assessment (IDA) and the Computerized Assessment Referral System (CARS). Participants will understand the vital role these tools can play to both the Courts and Community Supervision in determining risk to recidivate while assisting criminal justice professionals in developing supervision plans that reflect criminogenic factors. FACULTY I7: Taking Measure of Ohio’s Opioid Crisis The American drug epidemic has become one of the most devastating public health crises of the past century. Recent investigations into the factors driving the crisis have typically fallen into either supply-side explanations (e.g. increased supply of prescription opioids) or demand-side factors (e.g. employment, mental health, relationships). This presentation focuses on the current research investigating demand-side factors influencing overdose deaths in the U.S. and aims to synthesize the findings into a unified narrative. FACULTY I8: Family Matters- Transitioning Towards a Family-Centered Approach in All Drug Courts All collaborative courts are family courts if their clients are part of a family system. Substance use disorders have a profound effect on all relationships in the family unit and recovery support must extend beyond the client to a more family-centered approach. This session will offer judicial leaders and drug court professionals working in any drug court key strategies for implementing a family-focused approach. This presentation will make the case for why all drug courts should pay greater attention to children and families and that cross-system collaboration and communication are critical for family safety and recovery. This session will draw from the findings of the recently published study by Center for Children and Family Futures and NADCP - Transitioning to a Family Centered Approach: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Three Adult Drug Courts. Presenters will share lessons from three drug courts that transitioned from a traditional adult drug court to one that expanded services to families and children. FACULTY I9: Managing the Roller Coaster: Change in Your Specialized Docket Change does not always have to be frightening for teams and organizations. Embracing change will allow a team to progress forward with its mission and vision. In this never before seen, powerful presentation, Christine will provide several models that teams can use when processing through change. Whether it is implementing a recommendation from a research study or managing team turnover, these models provide a framework for understanding how teams operate, how individuals view change, and how to dig deep within the team culture and structures to create a system that embraces forward thinking. FACULTY I10: Intimate Partner Violence and Veterans Treatment Courts Since the inception of Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs), there has been ongoing discussion about whether or not intimate partner violence (IPV) offenses should be included on the docket or not. Some VTCs exclude all violent crimes so do not handle IPV offenses but others include them. There are both proponents and opponents to inclusion of IPV on VTC dockets. There are pros and cons and many factors that should be considered in determining eligibility for inclusion of IPV in VTCs. FACULTY |
9 - 10:15 a.m. | 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break and Networking - Archie Griffin Ballroom, Floor 2 |
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. | 2:45 - 4 p.m. |
| Great Hall Rooms 1 & 2, Floor 1 | F1: Ethical Considerations in Medication Assisted Treatment PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT CREDIT APPROVED COB CREDIT APPROVED |
G1: How to Implement Change Using the Best Practice Standards | H1: Transitioning to Best Practice Standards – Five Phase Model | I1: Legal Trends Impacting Drug Courts PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT CREDIT APPROVED |
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| Great Hall 3, Floor 1 | F2: Drug Testing 101 | G2: Mistakes Drug Courts Make and How to Fix Them | H2: The Paths from Trauma to Legal Offenses and How to Help Divert Them | I2: Incorporating Motivational Interviewing in Specialized Dockets COB CREDIT APPROVED |
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| Performance Hall, Floor 1 | F3: Nudged into Recovery: Evidence-Based Practices for Criminal Justice Populations (Part 1) COB CREDIT APPROVED |
G3: Nudged into Recovery: Evidence-Based Practices for Criminal Justice Populations
(Part 2) COB CREDIT APPROVED |
H3: The Context of Violence: Why it Matters | I3: Ethical Considerations in Medication Assisted Treatment PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT CREDIT APPROVED COB CREDIT APPROVED |
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| U.S. Bank Theater, Floor 1 | F4: What Do We Really Think About Fathers? (Part 1) | G4: Engaging Fathers More Effectively (Part 2) | H4: Engaging Fathers More Effectively (repeated) | I4: The Trauma Informed Courtroom COB CREDIT APPROVED |
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| Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Floor 2 | F5: OhioMHAS and Behavioral Health* Regulation | G5: Military Culture in Treatment Courts | H5: Peer Recovery Support 101 | I5: Naloxone (Narcan) Initiatives and the Court System | |
| Senate Chamber, Floor 2 | F6: Engaging Families, Communities and Schools | G6: Risk, Needs, Responsivity (RNR), Case Management and Supervision (part 1) | H6: Risk, Needs, Responsivity (RNR), Case Management and Supervision (part 2) | I6: Winning the War Against High-Risk Impaired Drivers through Assessment Driven Sentencing and Supervision COB CREDIT APPROVED |
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| Student Alumni Council Room, Floor 2 | F7: Teleservices: Using Technology to Enhance Treatment Court Operations | G7: OhioMHAS Specialized Docket Program Overview | H7: Conversations that Change: Using Motivational Interviewing in the Courtroom COB CREDIT APPROVED |
I7: Taking Measure of Ohio’s Opioid Crisis | |
| Cartoon Room 1, Floor 3 | F8: Checklist to Change – Monitoring and Responding to Participant Behavior and Using Effective Drug Testing | G8: Ready‐Set‐Go! 5 Key Planning Decisions to Help You Successfully Launch Your Family Treatment Court | H8: SSIP Demonstration Site Meeting NOT APPROVED FOR CEU |
I8: Family Matters- Transitioning Towards a Family-Centered Approach in All Drug Courts | |
| Cartoon Room 2, Floor 3 | F9: Sustaining Your Specialized Docket: This is Not Show Me The Money | G9: Intersection of Drug Trafficking and Human Trafficking | H9: Developing a Behavioral Response Plan: Going Beyond Incentives and Sanctions COB CREDIT APPROVED |
I9: Managing the Roller Coaster: Change in Your Specialized Docket | |
| Barbie Tootle Room, Floor 3 | F10: Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Co-occurring Combat Related Conditions | G10: Psychosis 101 COB CREDIT APPROVED |
H10: Combating 21st Century Drugs with Successful Outcomes | I10: Intimate Partner Violence and Veterans Treatment Courts | |
NOTE: All sessions have been approved for CLE and CEU credits unless otherwise noted.
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