tadcp newsletter october 2013
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nside This Issue
ume 3, Issue 3
ptember 2013A Publication by
2013 Officers
and Directorsennessee Association of
rug Court Professionals
ADCP 9th Annual
ug Conference 2
ne Years Plus One
uals Ten 3
organ County
esidential Recovery
ourt Opens 3
e Presidents
orner 3
illiamson County
UI Court Celebrates
aduation 4
embership
pplication 4
President
Mary Schneider
Vice President
Tracye Bryant
Treasurer
Brad Price
Secretary
Rick Taylor
West Tennessee DirectorAngela Parkerson
Middle Tennessee Director
Mike Lewis
East Tennessee Director
Judge Charles Cerny
At Large Directors
Ron Hanaver
Kevin Batts
Jill Barrett
The Madison area experienced catastrophic
flooding on August 8th, due to seven inches of
rain falling in just over 2 hours. This downpour
caused the rivers
and creeks in
the area to rise
quickly and
flood the sur-
rounding homes.
A mens homeat Recovery
Community,
Inc., a service
provider for
Division X
Treatment court
in Davidson County was caught in the midst of
the current. Waist high water filled the house as
clothes, shoes and personal items floated down
the street while the residents were escaping with
the few things they
could save. Eight res-
idents were displaced
that day, but each one
of them remained
hopeful and came
together to immedi-
ately get into the
solution.
Lyn Noland, direc-
tor of the program
called a landlord
down the street whohad promised a house to her that would be
ready in early October due to the fact that it
needed to be com-
pletely remodeled.
Well, with displaced
clients, October was-
nt quick enough.
She got the key, and
with the help of a
few of her clients,
the remodeling start-ed that day.
Presiding Drug
Court Judge, Casey
Moreland came to the rescue. He coordinate
Drug Court Community Service Project the
Saturday and Wednesday. Over 80 Drug Co
Clients took
shifts to dryw
paint, reinforc
floors and cle
up the proper
Nancy Derric
Drug CourtCoordinator f
Division X w
busy bringing
donations and
donuts and ke
everyone on t
toes! Recovery Community staff and reside
were overwhelmed at the outpouring of love
and support by the Drug Court Team and the
hard work of all the clients.
Thanks to Judge
Moreland and his
staff, the residents are
comfortable in their
new home and are
able to continue their
journey of recovery.
When the disaster
struck, Noland
offered to find other
placement for her
guys, as she knew this
could be seen as ahuge stumbling block in early recovery. The
would have to sleep on couches, and double
in rooms for a few weeks. They all refused,
saying, "We dont mind. We all needed a pl
to stay clean, and you helped us with that, no
we can be here to help you". And that, folk
is what recovery is all about!
FLOOD STRIKES MADISON7 INCHES OF RAIN FALLS IN JUST OVER 2 HOURS
Over 80 Drug Court clients
took shifts to drywall, paintreinforce floors and clean up
the property.
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TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF DRUG COURT PROFESSIONALS
9TH ANNUALDRUG CONFERENCEEN:
mber 11 13, 2013
ERE:
Embassy Suites & Conference Center,reesboro, Tennessee 615-890-4464,
p Code DCP. Rooms are limited!
ISTRATION:
.tadcpconference9.ezregister.com (can
be accessed on the TADCP website,
.tadcptn.org).
the weather turns chilly, things will be warming
he Tennessee Association of Drug Court
sionals 9th Annual Drug Court Conference. Set
held once again at the Embassy Suites and
rence Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, there
e a fantastic line up of national speakers present-
evant and current information to aid recoveryteams. Heres a brief introduction to the speak-
ers who will be featured:
Dan Griffin, President
of Dan Griffin
Enterprises, Inc., was a
smash hit at the confer-
ence last year. His
insightful, humorous,
and relevant presenta-
tions made him a confer-
ence favorite. This year,
Dan is back! He will be
presenting on the trau-
ma-focused work of
Stephanie Covington in
our general sessions and again at a breakout
ng specifically on mens treatment.
ou want more information about Dan and the
he is doing, check out his website at www.dan-
.com. You can also check out more of
gtons work at
www.stephaniecovington.com/.
Because of the feedback
we received last year, par-
ticularly from our treatment
folks, Dan will be joined
by a co-presenter during
the general session to talk
about trauma-informedcare. Shes our mystery
speaker at this point, but as
soon as we have a solid
mation well announce her! In addition to the
al session with Dan, she will also do a womens
ic treatment breakout.
ck for a second round
l is Dr. Merrill
n, the pharmacist and
sor from the
rsity of Georgia that
ned our brain on
in a way that delight-
well as educated.
knew we could all sit
sten to a detailed
nation of brain chem-
without falling
? Your evaluations
asked us to bring him back with more time, so we did
just that. Dr. Norton will do a workshop for us on
Friday that will expand on the presentation he did last
year, focusing on trauma. He is the final and sole pre-
senter for Friday, so dont worry; you dont have towonder what youll miss by attending his workshop!
You can find more about Dr. Norton here
http://cap.rx.uga.edu/index.php/people/faculty/norton/
Theres more!
Honorable Peggy Hora
(retired), a Senior
Judicial Fellow with
the National Drug
Court Institute and a
Judicial Outreach
Liaison with the
National Highway
Traffic Safety
Administration, will be
back with us this year
to provide our recovery
court judges with
updates in case law, research, and other points of vital
interest. Some of you may remember Judge Horas
tenacious spirit and candor from the workshop she
presented in 2010, here at the Embassy Suites. Based
on your evaluations, she was well received and provid-
ed great information, so we are happy to have her
back.
Even though she is retired, Judge Hora has stayed
very busy. You can see what she has been doing on
her website http://www.judgehora.com/.
The Coordinators had the opportunity to meet this
breath of fresh air at their training at Paris LandingState Park in May. Honorable Peggy Davis, a circuit
court judge from the 31st Judicial District in Missouri,
will do two presentations at the conference. She will
discuss an overview of the latest research and imple-
mentation on providing different tracks to drug court
participants with different needs, and then a separate
breakout geared toward our judges on how to imple-
ment these different
tracks for the program.
The Coordinators
received some of this
information at their Maytraining, and asked
TADCP to have her
come share with every-
one else at the confer-
ence this year. Judge
Davis is excited to come
back to Tennessee in
December, and we are
happy to have her!
If you attended the NADCP conference in
Baltimore this year, you may have seen her. You
see a brief biography on Judge Davis at
http://www.mobar.org/conferences/sasf/2012/comm
peggydavis.htm.
It is possible to have both Judges Hora and Da
present at our conference because of funding from
National Drug Court Institute. The National Drug
Court Institute, which is the training and technica
assistance arm of the National Association of Dru
Court Professionals, receives these funds from the
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistan
Please be sure to thank our partners at NADCP an
NDCI for their continued work and support on be
of specialty courts in Tennessee and across the co
(www.nadcp.org).
It might be hard to believe that theres even mo
great stuff to see and hear at the conference this y
but believe it! TADCP has a great line up of loca
speakers too! Experts from the state and local agcies will be there to talk about whats relevant to
recovery courts now. Youll also see and hear fro
great mix of sponsors this year, with several new
sponsors for you to learn about and with which to
nect. Check out the schedule, and register today!
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TADCP MEMBERS
ENJOY..
BYMARYSCHNEIDE
CONTINUINGEDUCATIONOPPORTUNIT(NAADAC ANDCLE)
ANNUALTADCP CONFERENCE
QUARTERLYNEWSLETTER
REPRESENTATION THROUGH THETADCP LEGISLATIVECOMMITTEE
FREE ANDDISCOUNTEDTRAININGOPPORTUNIT
On July 3rd I had foot surgery for a torn tendon on
top of my foot. Little did I know what I was getting i
I thought I would be back to work by July 30th, but a
write this on September 5th, I still havent returned to
work. Oh, I have answered email and phone calls. I
even snuck into the office on a couple of Saturdays to
complete some required reports. But lots of stuff has
gotten done, or has just been put off until later.
I have utilized Skype to actually interview and hire
new employee. I have also used it to do supervision w
an intern we have. Technology is a great thing and I
cant imagine how this extended time off would have
gone had I not had these tools. Also, I have a very co
petent staff who was able to continue with their every
work lives without a lot of input from me.
The Board of Directors of TADCP is also putting tnology to work. We are now subscribing to ZOOM,
which is a video conferencing service. This has allow
us to have a meeting every other month without every
travelling from the ends of the state. One of our com
tees has met through ZOOM as well, which was a hug
time saver for those involved. This has saved us hun-
dreds of dollars in mileage to the board members as w
as travel time. We hope that this will encourage other
members to be on the board since it is so much easier
communicate and meet now. We will still meet in per
once or twice a year, but we will also see each other a
the TADCP Conference and the Coordinators Confere
We are saying goodbye to Marianne Schroer.
Marianne was the Coordinator for the 21st Judicial Dr
Court. She has left to become the Director of CASA
(Court Appointed Special Advocate). Marianne has b
very helpful on the Board and was instrumental in ma
ing our last Day On The Hill such a success. We will
miss her input and wish her well in her new position.
the time you read this, we hope to have a new person
replace her on the board.
Finally, the TADCP Conference is getting nearer.
Marie Crosson has worked very hard to bring us some
top quality speakers. It has been a team effort with lo
of input from the board and DMHSAS. Please read h
article about the conference in this newsletter. We ar
hoping you will peruse our new website when you go
there to register for the conference. It is still evolving
but we think it has a lot of features that you, as a mem
of TADCP, will enjoy.
Reg
Mary Schneider, LAP
THEPRESIDENT
CORNEs hard to believe that the first drug court
rence, which was really a small training,
held over nine years ago. That first train-
which had less than 100 in attendance,
n no small part due to the individuals
spent countless hours of time and effort to
e the bill for drug courts that became law
03. While Tennessee had strong drug
s already in existence, the drug court leg-
on was a major leap in our legitimacy and
ring acknowledgment by people in posi-
of power of our existence. Among many
things, that legislation also provided
ng for drug court training.
ch is the nature of your growth. Within a
hort years, the annual drug court training
from a good-sized, single-day workshop
all out multi-day conference we have. More drug courts were created, and
people needed training. Drug courts
oved collaboration, and more people need-
aining. Drug courts are now mature
gh to experience turnover on the team and
staff, so more people need training. It is a
ment to the effectiveness of leadership; the
roots leadership that has defined the spe-
court movement across the country, and
nly in Tennessee.
is brief history lesson is intended to share
ery important message; the drug court
rence is YOUR conference. The individ-
who serve as TADCP board members do
your service, and they volunteer each
to make YOUR conference the best it can
be. They listen to feedback during the confer-
ence, read what is written on the evaluations,
and review information from other confer-
ences, especially the national conference. The
most valuable thing you can do to let them
know what you want at YOUR conference is
to call, email, or better yet, fill out the evalua-
tions at the conference. They do read them! If
you have completed an evaluation in the past
and your suggestion was not implemented, its
most likely because it requires additional fund-
ing, is not an option at the hotel venue, or
because more individuals disagreed with you
than agreed. An example of the importance of
feedback is the recent survey TADCP conduct-
ed asking TADCP members about interest in
either moving the annual conference to a sum-
mer month (July or August) or leaving it inDecember. Out of 45 respondents, 40% want
to move the conference to the summer, while
60% want to leave it in December. YOUR
opinion counts. Please share it!
Because we skipped a year of conferencing
in 2011, you may not realize that this year is
really the 10th Anniversary not only of the
existence of the drug court conference but of
the Drug Court Legislation. Let that fact sink
in for a minute. Coming together in December
will be a chance to recognize the importance
of 10 years. The graduate parade scheduled
for the opening ceremony will be a great
opportunity for us all to celebrate how far
weve come. Truly, it is far.
NINEYEARSPLUSONEEQUALSTENBYMARIECROSSON
July 31, 2013, Governor Bill Haslam cut
bbon at the Morgan County Residential
very Court. The statewide100 bed male
ential court is located in the annex adja-
o the Morgan County Correctional facili-
his residential recovery court program
s nonviolent male felony offenders who
n need of more intensive treatment servic-
help them succeed in their recovery jour-
Presently, nine certified drug courts
s the state are making referrals to
an County Residential Recovery
t .The referring courts are sending
cipants from their programs that are at
f being violated and entering into the
prison system. Once the participantes programming at MCRRC they will
tion back to their home court to fin-
ut their final phases. Morgan County
Residential Recovery Court is a collaborative
project between the Tennessee Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
and the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
Both departments are committed to enhancing
positive partnerships among the recovery
courts, public agencies, and community-based
organizations to continue to generate support
and enhance the positive impact of recovery
court programs across the state.
ORGANCOUNTYRESIDENTIALRECOVERYCOURTHASLAMCUTSRIBBONAT100 BEDFACILITY
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