Thanks to your hard work, community outreach, and creativity, treatment courts received widespread recognition and celebration throughout the month of May.

Many of your efforts were highlighted at RISE24. We wish we could include every amazing photo, media hit, and proclamation we’ve seen. Be sure to scroll through our web gallery for more!

We saw more than 300 positive treatment court stories during the month of May. Here are just a few from the final two weeks:

• Michigan: “Recovery, not prison: Jackson County Adult Treatment Court marks 20 years” (pictured)
• Florida: “How drug treatment courts are increasing safety and changing lives in our neighborhoods“
• Oklahoma: “Oklahoma has an incarceration crisis. Here’s what could fix it.“
• Kentucky: “Veterans given second chance at life“
• Washington: “‘A legacy of hope and healing’: Five graduate Spokane County drug court“
• Kansas: “WyCo Veteran’s Treatment Court offers mental health resources, expunged records

Graduations are not the end; they’re just the beginning, as treatment court alumni move forward on their path to lifelong recovery. Your commencement ceremonies inspire hope and remind our neighbors and elected officials that people can and do recover:

• Ohio’s Mahoning County Veterans Court
• Illinois’ Cook County Women’s/Rehabilitation Alternative Probation (WRAP/RAP) program (top R) and Adams County Problem-Solving Court
• California’s Yolo County Mental Health Court (top L)
• North Carolina’s 9th Judicial District Accountability and Recovery Court
• Virginia’s 5th Circuit Recovery Court
• Nevada’s Las Vegas Veterans Treatment Court
• South Dakota’s Codington County Treatment Court (bottom L)
• Mississippi’s 15th Circuit Court District Drug Intervention Court
• Montana’s Yellowstone County STEER and CAMO Courts (bottom R)

We love seeing treatment courts building partnerships and making a difference in their communities:

• New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County South Adult Drug Court teamed up with Revive Recovery Center for a community cleanup in Nashua.
• Minnesota’s St. Louis County Treatment Courts held an art and talent show in addition to their graduation ceremony.
• Georgia’s Dekalb County Accountability Court partnered with Keep DeKalb Beautiful to pick up trash and plant flowers at the courthouse and treatment center (top L).
• Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Treatment Court held a sober softball tournament with other local treatment court teams, participants, alumni, and police departments (bottom L).
• Michigan’s 41B treatment courts took on a wide variety of community assistance projects in May, including a cleanup event, planting a vegetable garden to donate to local transitional housing programs and women’s shelters, and collecting toys for the local children’s hospital.
• Kentucky’s Lee, Owsley, and Estill Counties treatment court participants made bird feeders for elderly residents to enjoy.
• New Mexico’s Bernalillo County Community Veterans Court team participants, alumni, team members, and veteran mentors participated in the annual VA2K Walk & Roll event to support homeless veterans (R).

• California’s Sen Bernardino County Collaborative Courts celebrated 30 years (top L).
• Oregon’s Douglas County HOPE Court asks participants to complete a graduation project; one recent graduate built a handcrafted sweat lodge for veterans (top R).
• Minnesota welcomed over 200 people to the Minnesota State Capitol for a treatment court rally, where graduates spoke about the power of recovery and how the programs helped them change their lives (bottom L).
• Tennessee’s 19th Judicial District Mental Health Court organized a trip for participants to Broken Wing Ranch to experience equine therapy (bottom R).
• Alaska’s therapeutic courts celebrated 25 years.
• Arizona’s Coconino County Treatment Court reached 1,003 graduates.