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A Criminal Justice Specialist at a large and well-respected Manhattan provider discussed how, in some cases, his organization had to defer to criminal justice and referring entities on when to end the treatment of a mandated client: "We cannot release a DTAP person, even if we feel they've completed, until DTAP says we can let them go…until TASC says.
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These categories included issues related to the process of receiving clients judicially diverted into treatment, the assessment and treatment of criminal justice mandated clients, and the relationship dynamics involved in collaborating with court employees in the post-reform era.
Second, respondents systematically indicated that important aspects related to assessment and treatment of mandated clients continue to be dominated by criminal justice rather than clinical concerns, potentially limiting the reforms' potential to shift NY drug policy from a punishment model to a treatment model.
While not all providers expressed universal satisfaction with every aspect of these relationships, many discussed how they are now able to collaborate effectively with their criminal justice partners in treating mandated clients, a situation that was new to many if not to all providers.
While some elements of the relationship between these two systems have been in place for years, the volume of mandated clients and the significance of the programs' reliance on the criminal justice system for business represent a fundamental shift in the dominant conditions of treatment and alter the ethical framework for treatment itself.
Among the respondents who were familiar with the term were those involved with policy work or who spent significant amounts of time either in the courts or communicating with the courts; however, even they were typically unable to distinguish between Article 216 diversions and other mandated clients at the level of daily operations.
That's because it mandated that clients collect a certain number of listings for the entire 90-day contract and then turn them in — a practice that would require clients to keep using the business even after finding a place on their own or deciding not to move.
One service provided two responses in order to indicate that the provision of feedback was related to the type of client; feedback was always provided for clients mandated by the judicial system, but feedback about other clients may or may not be provided.
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