Champaign County Drug Court Team

Drug courts across the country change participants’ drug usage and activity through: frequent drug testing, intensive supervision, judicial monitoring, and immediate sanctions. Without a drug court this same population currently would receive little jail time, supervision, drug testing or treatment, giving these offenders little reason to change their behavior. Drug courts also provide incentives to participants who comply with program requirements; reducing terms of probation, treatment, conditions, program fees and other innovation rewards. The Champaign County Drug Court Team is comprised of the following individuals and agencies.

• Judge
• States Attorney
• Public Defender
• Probation
• Prairie Center - Prairie Center Health Systems, Inc. is a registered not-for-profit, privately owned, comprehensive substance abuse education and treatment agency headquartered in the city of Urbana, Champaign County, in the state of Illinois.
• TASC - (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) is a not-for-profit organization that provides behavioral health recovery management services for individuals with substance abuse and mental health disorders. Through a specialized system of clinical case management, TASC initiates and motivates positive behavior change and long-term recovery for individuals in Illinois' criminal justice, corrections, juvenile justice, child welfare, and public aid systems.
  
  TASC provides direct services, designs model programs and builds collaborative networks between public systems and community-based human service providers. TASC's purpose is to see that under-served populations gain access to the services they need for health and self-sufficiency, while also ensuring that public and private resources are used most efficiently.
  
  TASC is licensed by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse and the Illinois Department of Human Services, Department of Child and Family Services