NCJ Number
251640
Date Published
2002
Length
79 pages
Annotation
This draft guide provides step-by-step recommendations for steering committees and planning groups in designing, developing, and implementing Tribal Healing to Wellness Court programs.
Abstract
The guide's introductory chapter discusses its purpose in providing practical advice in planning, implementing, and managing adult, juvenile, and family Healing to Wellness Courts. This is followed by a chapter that addresses the features of such courts. Subjects addressed are the history of Healing to Wellness Courts, how they are defined, their essential elements, and the types of Healing to Wellness Courts a tribe can establish. The next chapter focuses on assessment of the need for a tribe to establish a Healing to Wellness Court and the nature of preliminary planning for establishing it. Other topics covered in this chapter are how a Wellness Court program is managed, how to determine a community's need for the court, how a community decides whether it is ready to establish a Wellness Court, determining whether the court will succeed in meeting its goals, the resources needed for the court, and the importance of establishing a steering committee. The fourth chapter addresses the creation of the organization and structure of the court. Topics covered include steps in planning a court, engaging the community in planning a Wellness Court, its operations, who should compose the Wellness Court team, and the important aspects of the court. The fifth chapter discusses treatment as an important component of the court's program and how treatment is phased into case progression. The concluding chapter considers funding sources for the court. It discusses grant writing, why a grant proposal is rejected, grant management, and how the court will be sustained after federal funding ends. Appended resource materials