Drug Court Training Initiative

The Drug Court Training Initiative offers training opportunities for operational adult and family drug court teams. The overarching goals of the program are to help drug courts develop better program practices, improve program outcomes, and enhance services that lead to greater program effectiveness and long-term participant success.

Statewide Training

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, and The National Drug Court Institute (NDCI) are pleased to announce the availability of Adult Drug Court State and Regional Training. Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), NDCI now has the capacity to deliver all BJA-approved drug court training sessions to drug court professionals throughout the country in state and regional trainings. Trainings are available to drug court professionals at all levels of experience. Discipline-specific and specialized curriculum trainings, such as "Sanctions and Incentives," are also available. NDCI's curriculum menu includes, but is not limited to:

The Promise of Drug Court Targeting and Eligibility Psychopharmacology Treatment: What Works Team Building Confidentiality Case Management

Motivational Interviewing Drug Court For Defense Counsel:   A Paradigm Shift Prosecutor's Role and Responses   in the Continuum of Care Drug Court Environment and   Judicial Styles

State agency representatives, such as representatives of Administrative Offices of the Courts or Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Agencies, working with NDCI staff, can design an agenda specific to the needs of drug courts in a state or region. The curriculum can be delivered in one of three ways: NDCI can train state agency representatives to present the material; NDCI can partner with the state in presenting the material; or NDCI can provide faculty to present all material. Each project is generally limited to two consultants and one NDCI staff person, including materials for not more than fifty participants. Faculty (NDCI consultant and staff) travel and honorarium are allowable expenses, but accommodations for attendees and training site and audio visual, including workbooks and materials for more than fifty participants, must be covered by the state or region.

For further information concerning NDCI State and Regional Adult Drug Court Training opportunities, please contact Dana Jenkins at:

The National Drug Court Institute
4900 Seminary Road, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA 22311
Telephone (703) 575-9400 ext. 11
Fax (703) 575-9402
djenkins@ndci.org