11th Judicial Circuit Juvenile Drug Court Enhancement

Lauderdale County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court seeks funding to enhance its existing Juvenile Treatment Court program by providing enhanced and expanded services to justice-involved youth through court interaction and supervision, mandatory drug testing and medication monitoring, substance use or co-occurring disorder (COD) treatment, and prosocial family engagement activities. The goals of the project are to (1) expand adolescent treatment services; (2) hire a coordinator; (3) provide training related to best practices and evidence-based programs; (4) facilitate evidence-based life skill classes for participants and evidence-informed parenting classes for parents, caregivers, and families to support prosocial family engagement activities; (5) expand access to evidence-based substance use and/or COD treatment for participants to include expansion of in-home services, psychological evaluations for parents/custodians, equine therapy, and trauma evaluations; (6) implement a mentoring program; and (7) monitor and evaluate the family treatment court program for fidelity and accountability.