The Nevada County Probation Department, in conjunction with its community partners, wishes to expand the existing Adult Drug Court through the Adult Drug Court Expansion Grant as the need for this court and the growing mental health issues in the community are not being efficiently addressed. The goal of this grant is to expand the capacity of the court from its current maximum population of 15 to a maximum of 25 participants while enhancing services to those with co-occurring disorders who are being underrepresented in the existing structure of the Nevada County Drug Court. The concept of the Nevada County Adult Drug Court is to increase the level of accountability to high risk offenders by requiring them to participate in treatment combined with education, judicial accountability, testing and formal supervision. The Nevada County Adult Drug Court functions through a rich collaboration of several agencies including the Superior Court, Probation Department, Behavioral Health, the Public Defender's Office, the District Attorney's Office, local law enforcement agencies and local treatment providers. If successful, the Nevada County Adult Drug Court Expansion Grant would properly expand capacity of this alternative court, enhance the level of service to program participants, apply funding to address co-occurring disorders appropriately and improve the level of community safety provided for this type of repeat drug offender. Additionally, the high need for medication assisted treatment (MAT) has been ignored due to funding and an inability to find a suitable provider to assist the clients with the highest need. As the medical community has begun to embrace MAT, lack of funding is the only barrier preventing Nevada County from being able to assist clients with this new method of treatment. Additionally, this grant would allow for other medical care needs which are innate to the needle using drug offender: Hepatitis C and HIV.