Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
1. BTC Mental Health Reintegration Project2. FY18 SAMHSA Treatment Drug Courts3. September 30, 2018 - September 29, 2019 - The Brooklyn Treatment Court (BTC) is proposing the BTC Mental Health Reintegration Project (MHRP), modeled on successful reentry programs developed for recently incarcerated populations, this project will provide services for 40 participants annually, from intake through discharge, and link participants to services post-graduation as they reintegrate into community settings. Drug court participants with histories of trauma and current severe and persistent mental illness are often the most difficult to serve, and the likeliest to complete their drug court mandate without adequate resources to maintain their success and sobriety in the community. The overall program goal is to ensure that BTC participants with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse diagnoses, complicated by significant levels of trauma, receive care that results in continued treatment engagement and stable living situations in the community once they graduate from BTC. Eligible participants will be identified early in their BTC mandate through the administration of empirically-validated risk/need, mental health and trauma assessment instruments. Participants will be enrolled in a series of evidence-based practices, including Motivational Interviewing, Seeking Safety, Wellness Self-Management Plus, and Recovery Coaching. These treatments will be provided by our partner, Counseling Services Eastern District New York (CSEDNY). However, unlike other BTC programs, the final six months of programming will overlap participant’s graduation dates, such that three months of group treatment are provided while participants are at BTC, and three months are provided after participants have been discharged (note that post-graduation treatment services will be funded through public and private insurance; grant funds will not be used to fund services post-graduation). These “reintegration” groups will thus be composed of both active BTC participants and recent graduates, and sessions will alternate between the BTC clinic and CSEDNY. A comprehensive process and outcome evaluation will use data from BTC databases, the GPRA, clinical measures, and measures associated with each evidence-based practice to document the impact of participation on mental health/trauma symptomatology, substance use, and stable living environments throughout the project, including post-graduation. If funded, we believe that this will be the first project funded by SAMHSA’s drug court expansion program that documents program impact among participants after they have completed their drug court program, with data collected from community providers and recent drug court graduates. The proposed project is unique in that it seeks to enroll drug court participants in evidence-based programming that begins before graduation and continues for three-months post-graduation. We note that SAMHSA funds will only be used for services provided while participants are still under their drug court mandate. Upon graduation, funding for ongoing treatment will be provided by public or private insurance. Data collected post-graduation will only include assessments conducted by our treatment partner, CSEDNY.
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