Course 1: Understanding the Purpose and Roles of Professional Peers
Welcome to The Purpose and Roles of Professional Peers, the first in a series of courses for system actors working within drug treatment courts who are currently integrating, or hope to integrate, professional peers into their settings.
This course aims to help system actors understand how to effectively
incorporate and support Professional Peers within drug treatment courts.
Within this course, there are three objectives to be completed:
- Objective 1 is to understand the history of professional peers.
- Objective 2 is to understand the role and purpose of utilizing professional peers within drug treatment courts and,
- Objective 3 is to adequately verbalize the benefits and constraints of utilizing professional peers within drug treatment courts.
Judges, Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Court Officers, Drug Treatment
Court Administrators, Social Workers, Treatment Agency Staff, Counselors
This course is sponsored by the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
We also gratefully acknowledge the following people or organizations for contributions and support:
- Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
- Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN)
- Jennifer Joseph, Nancy McCarthy, Carrie Pettus-Davis
- Faye Taxman, Principal Investigator
Pettus, C., McCarthy, N. and Joseph, J. Course 1: Understanding the Purpose and Roles of Professional Peers. (2023). Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network Coordination and Translation Center. https://www.jcoinctc.
