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What courts did you cover? Type and County? 

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What courts did you cover? Type and County? 

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Were there any differences in your courts 

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Were there any differences in your courts 

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What was the most interesting thing each member learned from the interview?

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Would you recommend a client attend these courts? Why or why not? Did your group members all agree in this are? 

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Would you recommend a client attend these courts? Why or why not? Did your group members all agree in this are? 

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Drug Court in Will and McHenry County
Mental Health Court in Kane County

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Don't accept individuals who are considered low risk
Program lasted around 18-36 months for each type of court
Amount of times they had court or probation was generally the same

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Drug court in Ford County, Rock Island, and analyzed 4 different County.

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Moral Recognition Therapy was only used in the Drug Court program in McHenry County.
Drug Court in Will county had 6 stages and drug court in McHenry at 4 stages.

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VA, Dupage VA,Cook and Drug Court, Kendall

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VA, Dupage VA,Cook and Drug Court, Kendall

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Drug Court in DuPage & Kankakee County.
Mental Health Court in Adams County.

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Last Chance before jail
Different steps/phases

Have to be accepted into each program

non-violent crimes

remain drug/alcohol free

12-24 month program

live in county

attend programming for addiction

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Drug court and mental health court work with both issues to address the needs of the clients.

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We all found that each specialty court coordinator was very passionate about they job. It isn't your typical court and they really care about the individuals that pass through the program

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variation in drug testing stipulations

not ruling out harder cases/easier cases as admittance criteria

vet can use vet affairs services (psych/dr/treatment prog)

VA does not have lack of funding

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Adam-DeKalb Mental Health/Drug Court
Vanessa-Champaign Drug Court
Boone-Drug Court

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Cherry picking on the clients they choose for their program.

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-You must be a resident of the county
-You must fulfill all requirements set before you by the program and judge
-Required sobriety of at least 12 months
-Program is broken up into phases
-All offered some form of community-based support (counseling, job leads, transportation, etc)

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-Chose to work in the field because of personal interest / passion
-judge has final say into who is let in and who is not
-If relapse occurs, offender is able to restart program

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Being aware of the limitations of the program. Not all programs have a lot of diversity.

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We all agree that we would recommend clients attend these specialty courts because of the individualized care each person receives, there seems to be only benefits to these types of courts.

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We would recommend these programs to clients, depending on the court/county. We would be familiar with the program in order to understand what is in the best interest of our clients.

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-Not all courts associated with mental health
-Boone County did not have as many publicly available resources (handbook, information regarding the court, etc)
-DeKalb a combination of mental health and drug court

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Differences in treatment goals, how long the programs are, different phases,

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Very small drug court max 6 people.
Drug court acting more like probation.

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We would recommend, however we would supplement it with other services. Needs more MH implemented .

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Program length
remain drug/alcohol free
Phases
Started in the early 2000s

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R - there are multiple chances to continue in the program
Z - 96% crimes are committed by the same 4% of population
K - Connection to shop lifting

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VA- Quilt of Valor & women of Arlington Hts make them for the graduates

Newer program for drug court

Never knew it was an option

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Unanimously agree on the usefulness and recommendation of drug courts. Rehabilitation is preferred over punishment in reducing overall drug use, recidivism, and re-arrest. It also saves cost in additional jailing and by preventing re-offense.

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Yes, there is closer supervision, hope, treatment, recognition for good, can get expunged from their record. They don't get lost in the system.

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yes