Conversations with the Field are not webinars or presentations but live, radio show type of events. They are free, real-time, interactive, and open to anybody in the field of deflection.

The Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative (PTACC) invites you to the second in a series of “Conversations with the Field”  featuring the informative output from its seven core strategy area workgroups. Next week’s program will feature the latest  information from the Treatment, Housing, and Recovery strategy areas. The 90-minute discussion will examine the current COVID  landscape with respect to its impact on criminal justice deflection systems at a community level.  

The panel of nationally recognized experts from law enforcement, behavioral treatment, and recovery services will discuss  challenges in community recovery support systems that COVID has impacted as well as potential solutions at a policy and funding level. Additionally, the panel will discuss the evolution in national policy from a focus on abstinence as a treatment philosophy, to  recovery services and their impact on deflection and the systems that support deflection. 

More information regarding the upcoming event is available here.