Online Training Series: Working with Justice Involved Persons Who Use Methamphetamine | March Session

Training Description:

Working with people who use methamphetamine can be confusing for professionals, as methamphetamine use can present some unique issues and challenges. People who use methamphetamine may display behaviors that are easily misinterpreted as resistance or defiance. Court, treatment, and case outcomes improve when supervision, treatment, counsel, social services, health staff, and Court personnel know what to look for, what to expect, and how to address challenges.

This training will be packed with information and visuals for easy learning. Even though it is online, you will not be bored. Join us and bring your friends who need to know about this unique drug.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Develop literacy in how to recognize methamphetamine unique behaviors in clients
2. Learn how to correctly respond with “what works” when addressing methamphetamine users in treatment courts, and in other settings.
3. Translate training into practice with tools that will make you more effective as you address these complex issues.

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Helen Harberts, M.A., J.D.  

Helen Harberts, M.A., J.D., has worked in criminal justice since 1983. She began as an district attorney to Chief Deputy District Attorney of the Criminal Division in Butte County, CA. As Chief Probation Officer (1995-2002), she implemented adult and juvenile drugs courts, DUI Court utilizing naltrexone, Domestic Violence Court, and Mentally Ill Offenders Court, all based on the problem-solving court model. After a stint in probation, she returned to prosecution, practicing law exclusively in problem-solving courts for over five years before retiring in 2011. She later served as Interim Director of the Harris County (Texas) Community Supervision and Corrections Department in Houston. In 2013, she was inducted into the Stanley Goldstein Drug Court Hall of Fame for her contributions to treatment courts.

Ms. Harberts serves on the faculty oof the National Drug Court Institution, National Center for DWI Courts and (Now AllRise) National Judicial College. She has conducted site visits and training for SAMHSA and helped develop the 10 Guiding Principles of DWI Courts and the Practitioner’s Training Series for NADCP. She has contributed to the Judicial Benchbook and has trained in all 50 states and internationally. Ms. Harberts continues to consult and train on improving outcomes in treatment courts and supervision.