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Participants and staff highlight outcomes of Kalamazoo drug treatment courts during public comment
Summary
Multiple participants and program staff spoke at the May 20 meeting to mark National Treatment Court Month, describing program history, graduation counts and personal recovery stories; staff provided outcome figures for recent reporting periods.
Speakers at the May 20 Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners meeting recognized National Treatment Court Month and detailed program outcomes and personal recovery stories tied to the county’s specialty courts.
Michelle Dressen, life skills coordinator for the Ninth Circuit men’s and women’s drug treatment courts, told commissioners that Kalamazoo’s treatment courts have operated for 33 years and that the women’s drug treatment court was the nation’s first gender‑specific program. "Treatment courts have been in Kalamazoo for 33 years," Dressen…
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