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Drug Courts

The Drug Courts program provides grants and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal governments to establish drug courts. These courts break the cycle of substance abuse and crime by providing non-violent offenders with substance abuse treatment while keeping them under court supervision.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Annual goals focus on the number of active courts rather than the effectiveness of the program or how many drug courts are needed.
  • The program has achieved its targets for preventing drug abuse relapse among participants, although more attention is needed to track how participants fare after they complete the program.
  • The program has identified good long-term objectives: improving public safety and reducing recidivism in drug court communities; but measures and timelines for these objectives are needed, and grantees need to report on performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Determining how many additional drug court programs are needed to achieve program goals.
  • Developing measures and timelines for the goals of improving public safety and reducing drug abuse relapse.
  • Improving grantees' performance reporting.

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