Cultural Proficiency in Drug Court Practice Curriculum:

The Training Institute of NDRI in 1999-00 working with a diverse team of drug court practitioners in conjunction with Encounter Medical Group under a contract with American University, designed and developed a Cultural Proficiency in Drug Court Practice curriculum for the Drug Courts Program Office, Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice. This curriculum is designed to train Family, Juvenile, and Adult implementation drug court teams in agency-level (treatment services and the justice system) and systems-level (client and drug court practitioner) issues of cultural proficiency. Participants are judges, public defenders, prosecutors, probation officers, parole officers, treatment workers, TASC evaluators and other treatment/criminal justice practitioners involved in drug court practice nationwide.

This training is free of charge.   Curriculum Overview