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Local Veterans Treatment Court staff describe program that diverts veterans from prison into treatment
Summary
Program director Yvonne Whitaker described eligibility, team composition and 18-month treatment phases for the El Paso Veterans Treatment Court, and invited mentors and community volunteers to participate.
El Paso’s Veterans Treatment Court program offers an 18-month, court-supervised treatment pathway intended to divert veterans and active service members from the traditional criminal-justice process, the program director told the Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee Sept. 18.
“Once the participant meets these milestones for that particular phase, they will be able to move forward to the next phase,” Yvonne Whitaker, the court’s program director, said. Whitaker described a five-phase program of progressively longer intervals of supervision and treatment that culminates in aftercare.
Whitaker said the program is modeled on an approach developed by Judge Robert Russell in Buffalo, N.Y., and that the El Paso court…
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