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Dunn County treatment court shifts toward behavioral-change model, adds peer support and law-enforcement mentor pilot
Summary
Treatment court coordinator Kayla Johnson described a year of changes: a peer-support liaison funded by a 2025 TAD enhancement grant, a move from compliance-focused phases toward behavioral-change milestones, a planned law-enforcement/treatment-court mentor program, and steady participant engagement with about 85% using peer support.
Kayla Johnson, treatment court coordinator, presented an update on Dunn County’s adult treatment court, which she said she has coordinated for about a year. Johnson described the court as a largely voluntary, intensive alternative to traditional sentencing or revocation for people with substance-use disorders; participants who agree to enroll are later required to follow program conditions.
Johnson said treatment court began in Dunn County in 2008 and that all current judges and previous judges have supported the program. Eligibility, she said, generally requires participants to be at least 18, be Dunn County residents (to allow close coordination with probation), have felony drug- or alcohol-related charges or…
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