Annual Justice and Treatment Partnership Conference
December 8, 2021
Program Chair
Justice Kofi N. Barnes
Program Hosts
Dennis Reilly: Morning
Jennifer Graham: Afternoon
DAY 2: December 8, 2021
9.00 AM Eastern-4.00PM Eastern
REGISTER FOR DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2021
Keynote TBA
9.00a.m – 9.30a.m
Jeremy Akerstream
Timely, High Quality and Appropriate Treatment
9:30 am – 10:45 am (75 minutes)
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. In many instances this requires the utilization of multidisciplinary and multisystemic collaborative approaches. Experienced practitioners will describe various treatment and case management strategies employed in different types of Justice and Treatment partnerships.
Moderator: Judie Birns
Speakers: Jennifer Lysay, Kemi Jacobs, Nicole Hermansen, Aspasia Papatheodorou
Health Break
10.45 am-11:00am (15 minutes)
Treatment services for the incarcerated population
11:00 am – 12:15pm (75 minutes)
Strategies for addressing deleterious impacts of issues such as trauma, addiction, mental illness, criminal behavior etc. during and post incarceration are discussed.
Moderator: Lorne Sabsay
Speakers: Tanya Connors, Sharie Thompson-Rudder
Lunch
12:00pm – 1.00pm (60 minutes)
Monitoring and Evaluation
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (90 minutes)
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 utilized to optimize program success.
Moderator: Arla Liska
Speakers: Michael Weinrath, Irene Hoffart, Hannah Scot
Health Break
2:30pm - 2:45pm (15 minutes)
Harm Reduction and the Drug Treatment Court Practitioner
2:45 pm –3:45pm (60 minutes)
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
Speakers: Alejandra Garcia, David Lucas
Closing Remarks
3:45-4:00 pm
Preview of Day 3
Speaker: Justice Barnes/Jennifer Graham