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Adolescent Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care
A multi-year project for juvenile drug treatment courts that wish to lead the field in applying the principles of recovery capital aimed at improving operations and enhancing positive youth development.
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Overview
The Adolescent Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (AROSC) project was a multi-year endeavor for juvenile drug treatment courts to apply the principles of recovery capital in order to strengthen practices, improve operations, and enhance positive youth development. The sites focused on implementing recovery capital-oriented practices in a peer learning environment.
Selected teams received training and technical assistance to reenvision their operations and services from a recovery-oriented lens. Each team was assigned a coach from All Rise or our partner, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), to serve as its primary point of contact.
Eligibility
Qualifications and capacity required to receive an invitation:
- Be in operation for at least three (3) years
- Have a commitment from all core treatment court team members (at minimum, judge, prosecution, defense, court coordinator, school representative, treatment provider, and community supervision) to participate in the AROSC project
- Have support from administration and other decision makers to participate in the AROSC project
- Accept treatment court participants diagnosed with substance use disorders
- Have the ability to identify, describe, develop, and maintain relationships with local, youth-oriented recovery resources
- Be willing to engage in changing operational processes and measure outcomes using a standard recovery capital tool (provided through the AROSC project)
What’s involved:
- Participate in a virtual project kickoff meeting/orientation
- Complete a court self-assessment and review results with the AROSC project team
- Host an in-person site visit with AROSC project staff to review current practices and explore practice changes to use individualized case and treatment plans to help youth build capital and to expand youth and family connections to community resources and supports
- Conduct a comprehensive community mapping exercise with the AROSC project team
- Engage in strategic planning with assistance from the AROSC project team
- Build new and/or strengthen existing relationships with community groups and local agencies
- Receive training on how to assess youth pre- and post-program to measure recovery capital by using the newly developed Recovery Capital for Adolescent Model Assessment Tool (RCAM-A) provided by All Rise
- Implement new or refined staffing/court procedures centered on assessing and enhancing recovery capital elements and engage in discussions with the AROSC project team about the success of those efforts
- Participate in quarterly virtual meetings with the AROSC project cohort for peer information exchange
- Participate in an in-person AROSC all-sites meeting to be scheduled in the final quarter of the project’s current funding
Staff and Faculty
The AROSC sites worked with expert coaches, faculty, and staff to assess and build recovery capital principles and practices within their programs. Sites received individualized training and technical assistance throughout the project period from experts in adolescent development, recovery principles, juvenile drug treatment court best practices, mental health, and recovery high schools.
AROSC project leads and coaches:
- Travis Williams, M.S., project director, Juvenile Treatment Court Project, Treatment Court Institute, All Rise
- Emily Hennessey, Ph.D., assistant professor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; associate director, Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Martha-Elin Blomquist, Ph.D., senior site manager, NCJFCJ
- Allison List, Ph.D., program director, Behavioral Health, NCJFCJ
Want to learn more?
If you have questions about the AROSC project, recovery capital, juvenile drug treatment courts, or other related topics, contact project director Travis Williams.