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Sacramento County Dependency Drug Court:
Specialized Treatment and Recovery Services (STARS)
Sandy Robinson, DirectorSTARS Program
Presented atSummer 2007 Brown Bag Webinar Series
Session 1—Evidence Based Practice
June 12, 2007
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Five Components of Reform
1. Comprehensive cross-system joint training2. Substance Abuse Treatment System of Care3. Early Intervention Specialists4. Recovery Management Specialists (STARS)5. Dependency Drug Court
Reforms have been implemented over the past eleven years
Sacramento County’s Comprehensive Reform
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Sacramento County Dependency Drug Court Model
Level 3Monthly Hearings
Jurisdiction & Disposition
Hearings
Detention Hearing
Child in Custody
STARSVoluntary
Participation
STARSCourt OrderedParticipation
Level 1DDC
Hearings
30 Days
60 Days
90 Days
Level 2
Weekly or Bi-Weekly Hearings
180 Days180 DaysGraduationGraduation
Early Intervention Specialist (EIS) Assessment &Referral to STARS
Court Ordered to
STARS & 90 Days of DDC
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STARS
SSpecialized TTreatment AAnd RRecovery SServices
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STARS Goals
Effect client change by removing barriers to treatment and providing support
Provide CPS/Dependency Courts with accurate and reliable documentation
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The 5 Points of Success
Servant Leadership
Positivism
Customer Service
Professionalism
Integrity
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Obstacles to Change
Late-stage addiction
Resistance to “the system”
Lack of hope
Fathers often dismissed in dependency cases
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Achieving our Goals
Intake
Support
Philosophy
Intangibles
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Intake
Parent is immediately assessed for AOD issues at Detention Hearing. Each parent is assessed individually, to help break denial surrounding significant other.
Facility location
Rapid intake
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Intake
Immediate access to treatment
Immediate contact with Recovery Specialist – gender specific
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Three Strategies for Working with Parents
Use of Motivational Interviewing Techniques
Role-modeling
Accountability
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Role Models
Recovery Specialists are:
Certified addiction specialists
Believable and approachable
Comfortable with some self-disclosure
Non-punitive in approach
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Accountability
Our belief is that when we combine an empathetic, supportive environment with one that stresses accountability, we are able to create change in a profound way.
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Intangibles
Belief in redemption and recovery
Overcome prejudices that exist
We give 100% for client’s 100%
Passion
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Sacramento Family Treatment Court Evaluation Findings
4940 Irvine Blvd.Suite 202Irvine, CA 92620714/505-3525www.cffutures.org
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Treatment Admission Rates***
***p<.001
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Treatment Discharge Status*
* p<.05; no gender differences were found in terms of discharge status
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Treatment Discharge Status by Primary Drug Problem***
***p<.001
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24-Month Child Placement Outcomes
**p<.01; ***p<.001
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24-Month Child Placement Outcomes by Parent Primary Drug Problem
*p<.05 ***p<.001
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Time to Reunification at 24 Months
n.s.
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24-Month Cost Savings Due to Increased Reunification RatesPreliminary Findings
Takes into account the reunification rates, time of out-of-home care, time to reunification, and cost per month
27.2% - Reunification rate for comparison group children 43.6% - Reunification rate for court-ordered DDC group children 221 Additional DDC children reunified
33.1 – Average months in out-of-home care for comparison group children
9.4 - Average months to reunification for court-ordered DDC children
23.7 month differential
$10,049,036 Estimated Savings in Out-of-Home care costs