DAY 1 TOPICS:
Impacts of Homelessness and Poverty. Homelessness and poverty are common features of populations impacted by the intersection of Justice and Treatment. The criminogenic and other deleterious impacts of these circumstances and some strategies aimed at reducing these impacts are discussed.
Restorative Justice Approaches. What is a Restorative Justice approach? Experienced practitioners discuss the rationale behind Restorative Justice programs, some program examples, limitations, advantages, challenges, successes, and other outcomes.
Optimal and sub optimal states of Mental Health. Some of the intricacies of mental health are discussed. The pandemic has revealed the importance of optimal mental health. A suboptimal mental health can have deleterious impact on a personal and societal level and is often a precursor for criminal and other anti social behavior.
Adopting a trauma informed approach in and out of the Courtroom. Learn about trauma, why understanding its impacts is important and some strategies to achieve optimal outcomes in and out of the courtroom
The Opioid crisis – implications for the Criminal Justice System, Law Enforcement and Treatment. Substance abuse, addiction and the Opioid Crisis will be described. Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on the Criminal Justice System and Law Enforcement are discussed. Treatment strategies for addressing the opioid crises are discussed and explained.
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION - DAY 2: Justice and Treatment Partnerships contribute to the prevention, eradication and reduction of the harm caused by the social, economic, medical, and psychological determinants of crime. During this multi day conference, experienced practitioners and persons with lived experience discuss the Why, the How, the Challenges, the Impacts and best practice standards of different types of Justice and Treatment partnerships. Registration for each day must be done separately.
DAY TWO TOPICS:
Timely, High Quality and Appropriate Treatment. Justice and Treatment Partnerships seek to employ a continuum of effective treatment strategies aimed at eradicating or reducing the deleterious impacts of the precursors to human suffering and criminal behavior. Experienced practitioners will describe components of these treatment strategies in their type of Justice and Treatment partnership.
Targeting the incarcerated population. Strategies for addressing deleterious impacts of issues such as trauma, addiction, mental illness, criminal behavior etc. during and post incarceration are discussed.
Monitoring and Evaluation. Anecdotal stores of success are rewarding but insufficient to optimize program outcomes. An effective program monitoring and evaluation process enables Justice and Treatment partnerships to identify limitations, needs, challenges and success. Experts will explain how monitoring and evaluation can be utilised to optimise program success.
Harm Reduction and the Drug Treatment Court Practitioner. Drug Treatment Courts are one of the most researched Justice and Treatment Partnerships in North America. Research has produced several clearly identified Practice Standards. Variations in how these Practice Standards are implemented is often influenced by differences in treatment philosophies, the most common is the abstinence and harm reduction dichotomy. In contrast to abstinence, the introduction of harm reduction into the Drug Treatment Court discourse is a relatively new phenomenon for most Drug Treatment Courts in North America. Experienced practitioners explain how harm reduction principles can be applied in a Drug Treatment Court. Some concepts discussed can be modified as desired and applied to other Justice and Treatment Partnerships.
DAY THREE TOPICS:
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – Cause, impacts and treatment strategies. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is explained. Societal and criminal behavior impacts are described. Strategies to reduce the deleterious impacts of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are identified.
Comprehensive Case Management, Services and Supports for Participants. Persons who fall within the Justice and Treatment space typically have a myriad of deleterious conditions which act as precursors to anti social and criminal behavior. In many instances, this circumstance, necessitates the utilisation of multidisciplinary and multisystemic collaborative approaches. Therefore, effective case management strategies and supports for program participants is indispensable. Experienced practitioners will describe components of these case management and support strategies in their type of Justice and Treatment partnership.
Indigenous Courts, the why, the how and the impacts. Indigenous courts consider the unique systemic and individual factors that contribute to an Indigenous person’s criminal behaviour. These courts seek to address the root causes of criminal behavior and adopt practices, processes and produce outcomes informed by Indigenous understandings of justice. Expert practitioners discuss the rationale, practices, and outcomes of Indigenous courts.
Building Cultural Competency in Treatment/Therapeutic Courts. An important component of ensuring equal access for all eligible persons, is to ensure that the program’s participant composition and program delivery, reflects the demographics of the community it serves. An experienced practitioner explains the importance of cultural competency in optimising successful outcomes and identifies some strategies to build such competencies.
Where Justice and Treatment Intersect – Common Themes and Practices. An experienced practitioner discusses some common themes and best practice standards common to programs which seek to eradicate or reduce the harm caused by the deleterious impacts from places where justice and treatment intersect.
Day 4: POST CONFERENCE DISCUSSION FORUMS. A Post Conference opportunity to meet in small groups to discuss various issues raised at the Annual Conference including various types of Justice and Treatment partnerships such as Problem Solving Courts, Restorative Justice approaches etc. and to discuss any other topics of interest from places where Justice and Treatment intersect.
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