The conference will bring together policy makers, the judiciary, the legal profession, police, corrections, the health and recovery communities, AODT Courts’ graduates, iwi, students and academics for informed, robust, conversations about what is needed for the successful expansion of these innovative solutions-oriented Courts within Aotearoa New Zealand.
We have an exciting line up of local and international speakers involved in working in and researching the drug courts here in Aotearoa and overseas, including:
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| Judge Ema Aitken Auckland AODT Court Judge Lisa Tremewan Waitakere AODT Court Matua Rāwiri Pene Pou Oranga, Auckland and Waitākere AODT CourtsProfessor Warren Brookbanks Auckland University of TechnologyProfessor Tracey McIntosh (Ngāi Tūhoe) University of AucklandDr Katey Thom Auckland University of TechnologyDavid Burnside Peer Support Manager, Odyssey House, AucklandDr Katherine Doolin University of AucklandDr Fleur Te Aho (Ngāti Mutunga) University of Auckland | Judge Peggy Hora, (Ret) California Superior Court Judge and former presiding Judge of the Drug Treatment Court in California, US Professor David Best Sheffield Hallam University, UK Rob Hulls Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University, AustraliaJane Pfeifer Program Director at Children and Family Futures for the National Regional Partnership Grant program, USDr Shannon M Carey Co-President and Senior Research Associate at NPC Research, USPaul L. Cary Toxicologist and former Scientific Director Toxicology Laboratory, University of Missouri Health Centre, USHelen Harberts former prosecutor and Chief Deputy District Attorney of the Criminal Division in Butte County, CA, and former Chief Probation Officer, USJustice Mata Keli Tuatagaloa Supreme Court of Samoa, AODT Court of SamoaDouglas B. Marlowe, J.D., Ph.D. Senior Scientific Consultant for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), Senior Science & Policy Advisor for Alcohol Monitoring Systems, and Training Consultant for the Global Institute for Forensic Research (Dr Marlow will be speaking via prerecorded video) |