Next Steps for FDTCs: Healthy Growth and Development Is Not Just ...

Working within a Parallel Universe
The Court and the Participant
• The creation of a drug
court may be scary; we
won’t know the outcomes
until we are well into it
• We come together to work
with people we may not
know, or may not have
worked with before
• We risk our time, our
reputation, and may give
up part of our turf in
approaching things in a
new way
• Committing to
participate in a Family
Drug Court is scary;
they do not know what
the outcomes will be
• They must work with
people they do not
know, and do not know
if they can like or trust
• They risk their time,
relationships, and entire
life style to change
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