CEC’s drug court programs provide an intensive and cost effective residential treatment, case management and transitional service functioning as an alternative sentencing option to misdemeanant and felony offenders with substance use disorders. The goals of the drug court program are:

• Reductions in jail and prison overcrowding.

• Enhanced treatment retention, abstinence and successful community reintegration for participants through a coordinated system of cognitive behavioral treatment methods, incentives, sanctions, case management and transitional services.  

• Reductions in social and victimization costs to taxpayers associated with re-arrest re-conviction and re-incarceration.

CEC Drug Court at the Casper Re-Entry Center
The CRC/Natrona County Residential Drug Court Treatment Program is a unique public/private partnership with the Wyoming Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, District Attorney Offices, City of Casper, Natrona County and the Wyoming Department of Corrections. 

The average length of stay is approximately nine (9) months. Residents’ course and progress in treatment is contingent upon comprehensive multi-disciplinary case planning to include: regularly updated treatment plans, behavioral evaluations, merit/demerit reports, pre/post test results, journaling, individual and group treatment progress, attendance, general walk-around behavior, status hearings, incentives/sanctions, and competency based phase progression/regression.

Phase I – Average length of stay (3) months.

• Assessment of risk, criminogenic needs and responsivity factors.
• Completion of Initial and Master Treatment Plan.
• Orientation to program rules, Therapeutic Community Structure, memorization/recitation of Program Attitude, Choice and Credo.
• Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Methods, Rational Emotive Therapy, Stages of Change, Motivational Interviewing, Meth. Matrix.
• Individual, Group, Psycho-educational, and Self Directed Completion of Program Modules.
• On-site Twelve Step Support Group attendance.
• Urinalysis testing for illicit substances.      
 
Phase II – Average length of stay three (3) months.

• Identification of protective factors relative to criminogenic needs.
• Treatment plan review and updates.
• Demonstrate pro-social alternatives to lying, stealing and aggression through self control, self management, problem solving and conflict resolution skills, graduated practice through modeling, and role-playing.
• Promote and improve family socialization and role models through family education programming.
• Individual, Group, Psycho-educational, Meth. Matrix, and Self Directed Completion of Program Modules.
• On-site Twelve Step Support Group attendance.
• Urinalysis testing for illicit substances.       

Phase III – Average length of stay three (3) months.

• Identification of protective factors and development of relapse prevention plan, and continuum of care plan.
• Empathize with harm done to victims through restorative justice strategies.
• Return to the community through advocacy and service brokerage, (e.g., family programming, GED, work release, participation in faith based groups, CEC Alumni Association and community based 12-Step support groups).
• Promote positive attitudes regarding education, vocation and employment through community transition programming and work release programs.
• Promote and improve family socialization and role models through family education programming.
• Participants managed principally by the Natrona County Outpatient Drug Court Program. Participants may be moved into a structured community based residential transitional care facility.
• On-site and off–site Twelve Step Support Group attendance.
• Urinalysis testing for illicit substances.