Training & resources hub
Welcome to the Wisconsin problem-solving court training and resources hub! Here you can access many problem-solving court resources and training opportunities. If you have additional resources or training opportunities you would like added to the hub, please contact Heather Kierzek, Evidence-Based Program Manager, heather.kierzek@wicourts.gov. (The documents on this page are in Adobe PDF format, unless otherwise noted.)
- NADCP adult drug court best practice standards, Vol. 1
- All Rise best practice standards, Vol 1, 2nd Edition
- NADCP adult drug court best practice standards, Vol. 2
- Wisconsin treatment court standards
Technical support resources by standard (1 - 17)
2019 standards training binder
Standards 101 training
Note: Click on the headings for each standard below to access those resources.
Standards 1 - 6
- Evidence-based practices
- Equity/inclusion
- Planning process
- Teams
- Judicial interaction/role
- Non-adversarial approach
Standard 1: Demonstrated committment to evidence-based practices
- Practical guide for implementing a trauma-informed approach
- R2P checklist of evidence-based drug treatment court practices
- Motivational interviewing in corrections
- Motivation interviewing motivating offenders to change
- Law and medicine resource guide
- RNR drug courts
- Family-centered approach
- Multiple tracks
- Native American Motivational Interviewing
Standard 2: Equity & inclusion
Standard 3: Planning process
Standard 4: Teams
- Core competencies guide
- NDCRC resources by team role (external link)
- NDCRC role descriptions (external link)
Standard 5: Judicial interaction & role
Standard 6: Balancing the non-adversarial approach
Standards 7 - 12
- Recordkeeping/confidentiality
- Target population/eligibility/referral
- Screening
- Case planning
- Treatment
- Program phases
Standard 7: Recordkeeping & confidentiality
Standard 8: Target population, eligibility, & referral
Standard 9: Screening & initial assessment
- Examples of screening and assessment tools
- Validated risk and need assessment tools
- Fact sheet: Selecting and using R/N assessments
- Guideline for drug courts on screening and assessment
- Commonly used substance use disorder screening instruments
- Complementary needs assessments
- OWI assessment: A review of available DUI/DWI/OWI screening tools
Standard 10: Case planning
Standard 11: Treatment
- Incorporating peer support into substance use disorder treatment services
- Aftercare, relapse prevention and continuing care
- Recovery language
- Telehealth for the treatment of serious mental illness and substance use disorders
- Virtual recovery resources
- Principles of community-based behavioral health services
- Addiction counseling competencies
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services Statute (ch. 75)
- Treating concurrent substance use among adults
- Medication assisted treatment (MAT)
- Stimulants
- Criminal thinking
- Carey guides and BITS
- Moral reconation therapy (external link)
- Thinking for a change (external link)
- SAMHSA evidence-based practice resource center (external link)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (external link)
- Seeking Safety (external link)
- Dr. David Mee-Lee (external link)
Standard 12: Program phases
Standards 13 - 17
- Drug/alcohol testing
- Incentives/sanctions/therapy
- Training
- Community outreach
- Performance measures/evaluation
Standard 13: Drug & Alcohol Testing
- Q/A: Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Requirements for Court Programs
- DEA drugs of abuse
- CLIA reference sheet
- Best practices
- Need to know: Facts on marijuana
- Fact sheet: Marijuana detection window
- Fact sheet: Urine drug concentrations
- Need to know: Oral fluid testing
- Fact sheet: Spice, K2 and the problem of synthetic cannabinoids
- Question and answer: Synthetic cannabinoids
- Objective testing—Urine and other drug tests
- Practical guide to urine drug monitoring
Standard 14: Applying incentives, sanctions & therapeutic adjustments
Standard 15: Training
Standard 16: Community outreach
Standard 17: Performance measures & evaluation
- WI drug and hybrid court performance measures | YouTube video (external link)
- Mental health court performance measures
- OWI court evaluation manual
- Evaluating your program
- CORE webinar (external link)
- WI drug and hybrid court performance measures - mental health track supplement | YouTube video (external link)
- WI OWI Treatment Court performance measures | YouTube video (external link)
- WI Veterans Treatment Court performance measures | YouTube video (external link)
Resources by program type
- Adult drug
- CJCC
- Dom. violence
- Family drug
- Healing/wellness
- Juv. drug
- Mental health
- Opioid
- OWI
- Reentry
- Veterans
Adult drug court
CJCC
- CJCC Essential Elements
- Getting It Right: Collaborative Problem Solving for Criminal Justice
- Guidelines for developing a Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
- Guidelines for Staffing a Local Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
- How to collect and analyze data: A Manual for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators
- Keeping Your Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee Going Strong
- Measuring Performance of CJCC's
- National Standards for Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils
- Jail Crowding: Understanding Jail Population Dynamics
Family drug court
- Developing family drug court guidelines
- Fact sheet: Family dependency treatment court
- Best practice standards
- AOD Treatment Specific Orientation Materials
- Attorney Specific Orientation Materials
- Child Welfare Specific Orientation Materials
- Discipline Specific Orientation – Coordinator
- Discipline Specific Orientation Materials (General)
- Judge Specific Orientation Materials
Healing to wellness court
Mental health court
Veterans court
- 10 Key components
- Planning checklist
- Veterans treatment court fact sheet
- Dispatch from the front lines
- Education
- Department of Labor
- State Department of Veterans Affairs
- Veterans service organizations
- Veterans benefit administration
- Mentor Roles and Boundaries: Setting the Conditions for Success
- Expansion of VA Caregiver Support Program: New Resources for Family Caregivers of Our Nation's Veterans
- The Department of Defense's inTransition Program
- Resources for veterans and families (external link)
Juvenile drug court
Domestic violence court
Reentry court
Resources by team role
- Coordinator/Case Manager
- Prosecutor
- Defense
- Law Enforcement
- Probation/Parole
- Peer Support
- Treatment Provider