Evidence-Based Practice Resources
- Defining Drug Courts [PDF]
- Best Practices I [PDF]
- Best Practices II [PDF]
- National Drug Court Resource Center - Adult Treatment Court Resources
1. Substance Use Disorder Tools
2. Criminogenic Needs (RNR) Tools
- Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) [PDF]
- Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI) [PDF]
- Risk and Needs Triage (RANT)
- Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)
- Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS)
- Federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA)
- Risk-Need-Responsivity Simulation Tool
- Inventory of Offender Risk, Needs, and Strengths (IORNS)
- Offender Profile Index (OPI) [PDF]
- Offender Screening Tool (OST)
- Field Reassessment Offender Screening Tool (FROST)
- Static Risk and Offender Needs Guide (STRONG)
- The Criminal Court Assessment Tool (CCAT) [PDF]
3. Clinical Diagnostic Tools
- Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN)
- Texas Christian University (TCU) Drug Screen II
- Structured Clinical Interview for the DSMV (SCID)
- Psychiatric Research Interview for Substance and Mental Disorders (PRISM)
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute Library at the University of Washington
- Addiction Severity Index (ASI) [PDF]
- Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)
- Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20)
- CAGE Adapted to Include drugs (CAGE-AID) [PDF]
- Simple Screening Instrument for Alcohol and Other Drugs (SSI-AOD) [PDF]
- Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) [PDF]
4. Mental Health Screening Tools
- Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
- Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) [PDF]
- Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS)
- CJ-DATS Co-Occurring Disorder Screening Instrument (CJ-CODSI)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale (GAD-7) [PDF]
- Global Appraisal of Individual Needs-Short Screener (GAIN-SS)
- Mental Health Screening Form-III (MHSFIII) [PDF]
- Modified Mini-Screen (MMS) [PDF]
- Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)— Bipolar Disorder [PDF]
- Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R)
- Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) [PDF]
- Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) [PDF]
5. Trauma and PTSD Tools
- Acute Stress Disorder Structured Interview (ASDI)
- Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5)
- Life Events Checklist [PDF]
- Posttraumatic Symptom Scale Interview (PSS-I)
- PTSD Checklist (PCL)
- Trauma History Screen
- Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS)
- UCLA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index
- Brief Trauma Questionnaire
- CRAFFT Screening Interview [PDF]
- Trauma Assessment for Adults (TAA)
- Life Stressor Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5)
- Primary Care PTSD Screen (PC-PTSD) [PDF]
- Abbreviated PTSD Checklist- Civilian Version (PCL-C) [PDF]
6. Health Risk Behavior Tools
- HIV Risk Assessment [PDF]
- Texas Christian University (TCU) HIV/AIDS Risk Assessment
- University of Pennsylvania Risk Assessment Battery (RAB)
- Adolescent and Young Adult Health Risk Behavior Assessment [PDF]
- Risk Behavior Survey [PDF]
7. Criminal Thinking Tools
- Criminal Sentiments Scale
- Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scales (TCU-CTS)
- Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)
8. Clinical Case Management Tools
- Case Management Society of America
- Commission for Case Management Certification
- National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities
- Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities Crime and Justice Institute, Illinois [PDF]
9. Prevention Education Tools
- Bureau of Justice Assistance Naloxone Overdose Reversal Toolkit
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs
10. Treatment and Social Services
- The Campbell Collaboration Library of Systematic Reviews
- The Cochrane Collaboration
- CrimeSolutions.gov National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
- The Center for Court Innovation
- International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
11. MIS Systems
- Buffalo, NY, Drug Court Case Management System (contact the NDCI for more information)
- Advanced Computer Technologies Drug Court Case Management (DCCM) System
- Treatment Research Institute Court Evaluation Program (TRI-CEP) [PDF]
- Criminal Justice—Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) eCourt System
- Social Solutions Adult Drug Court Performance Model, Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) Software
- Fivepoint Solutions
- iMs Trident
- Tyler Technologies
- Apex Systems
- ACT Innovations
- Marquis Software
