Treatment courts achieve their strongest outcomes when they move beyond compliance- and time-driven programming and adopt a recovery-oriented, person-centered approach grounded in addiction science, mental health research, and trauma-informed care. This session examines how treatment and recovery management reframe accountability, treatment decision-making, and progress measurement to support lasting behavior change and public safety.
Participants will explore the distinction between sobriety and recovery, core elements of effective treatment and recovery management, the appropriate role of medication for addiction treatment (MAT), and integrated responses to co-occurring substance use, mental health, and trauma. The session also addresses why jail is not a therapeutic response, how to measure recovery using clinical and psychosocial stability, and how courts can build recovery capital that extends beyond program completion.
