Veteran's Treatment Court

The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) is an innovative alternative approach for Veterans from incarceration to supervised treatment and supportive services. The primary objective of VTC is to promote public safety by providing an intra-agency, collaborative, and non-adversarial treatment strategy to Veterans in the criminal justice system who suffer from mental illness and/or substance use issues.

The VTC is a voluntary, 5 phase, up to 18 month program in which participants must attend treatment as prescribed, meet regularly with their probation officer, regularly appear in court, abstain from using drugs or alcohol, submit to regular drug testing and meet with their assigned mentor.

The role of the Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Veteran Mentor is to function as a coach, guide, role model, advocate, and a support person for the individual veteran participant (participant) with whom he/she is working. Engage the participant by ensuring he/she understands progress through the program will be up to them. Encourage the participants by ensuring they are not alone in this endeavor and will have a broad support network to assist them to include you. Empower your participant by pointing out successes and failures are directly due to their efforts, no one else.