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Tso-Gi-Ge-Yu Di-Ni-Yo-Tli (Cherished Children) Healing to Wellness Court

Award Information

Awardee
Award #
2004-DC-BX-0056
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2004
Total funding (to date)
$448,821
Original Solicitation

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2004, $448,821)

The Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program is designed to assist states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments in developing and establishing drug courts for substance-abusing adult and juvenile offenders. Drug court programs funded by the Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program are required by law to target nonviolent offenders. The Program supports the following activities: Adult drug court implementation, Juvenile drug court implementation, Family drug court implementation, Single jurisdiction drug court enhancement, Statewide drug court enhancement, and planning efforts.

Some specific goals for the tribe are as follows: 1)provide individualized treatment plans resulting in a 90% completion rate.
2)To provide effective treatment modalities and education that result in an 85% success rate as measured by absence of repeated offenses and sobriety over a follow-up period of eighteen months after treatment completion. 3)To provide cultural accountability in service provision as measured by a 100% completion rate of service team and major service providers of culturally based training resulting in certificates of cultural competence for each individual. 4) To create and maintain a database on participants that includes age, gender, offense(s), diagnostic categories, referrals, attendance, sanctions, units of service, substances of abuse, use histories and other data as measured by inclusion of data in reports to the funding agency.

CA/NCF

Date Created: September 6, 2004