Family treatment courts and the COVID-19 pandemic: Barriers and facilitators to program implementation, client engagement, and recovery

Family Treatment Courts (FTCs) serve child welfare-involved parents with substance use issues who are working toward recovery and reunification with their children. Research has linked FTCs to successful outcomes such as treatment access and completion and family reunification, but there has been less attention to factors that hinder and facilitate program implementation and client engagement. Moreover, little is known about how the shift to virtual services during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted FTC programs and the families they serve.

Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - December 20, 2023 Category: Addiction Authors: Danielle M. Romain Dagenhardt, Xiayo Liu, Jayden Richards, Joshua Mersky Source Type: research