ABOUT THE FRIENDS OF NH DRUG COURTS
Our mission is to invest in Drug Court participants and programs by removing financial barriers and providing the support needed for participants to be successful in realizing their full potential.
What is a Drug Court?
Adult Drug Courts are an alternative to incarceration that combine intensive judicial supervision with substance use disorder treatment and other support services. Rather than serving jail time, eligible non-violent offenders with substance use disorders can volunteer to participate in the program.
Participants typically graduate from the program in 12 to 24 months. The recidivism rate, the rate at which offenders get sent back to jail, for Drug Court graduates in Grafton and Strafford counties is around 22% as compared to prisoners statewide with a recidivism rate of close to 40% and nearly 60% nationally. There are more than 4,000 treatment courts throughout the nation.
Our History
The Friends of New Hampshire Drug Courts is the first statewide drug court support organization in the nation. The Friends, which first formed in the early 2000s as the Friends of the Grafton County Drug Court, officially expanded into a statewide organization in 2015. Since 2015, the Friends has distributed more than $300,000 in assistance to participants in New Hampshire’s nine drug courts to support them through times of financial hardship that might otherwise contribute to relapse. Housing, transportation, health and dental care, education and training, food and clothing are some of the most common requests.
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