Treatment Courts

Recovery Connections Court (RCC)

The RCC is voluntary, and participants must give their informed consent prior to any evaluation and consideration by the RCC team. Please contact the District Attorney’s office and ask to speak with a member of our Behavioral Health Unit if you have any questions. 
Those referred to RCC will be required to complete an assessment with Dauphin County Drug and Alcohol, they can be contacted at (717) 635-2254.

Drug Court

Drug Court is a high-intensity program, initially requiring weekly appearances before the Drug Court Judge; completion of the court ordered treatment program; an intense level of supervision by probation officers; around-the-clock monitoring for drug/alcohol use; and compliance with all other directives issued by the court. For more information, please contact Heather Burd at hburd@dauphincounty.gov.

Veteran's Court

Veteran's Court is handled on a specialized criminal court docket involving Veterans charged with criminal offense(s), by diverting eligible Veteran-defendants with substance dependency and/or mental illness. The court substitutes a treatment problem solving model for traditional court processing. Veterans are identified through specialized screening and assessments, and voluntarily participate in a judicially supervised treatment plan that a team of court staff, veteran health care professionals, veteran peer mentors, drug and alcohol health care professionals and mental health professionals develop. For more information, please contact Heather Burd at hburd@dauphincounty.gov.

Mental Health Court

The Dauphin County Mental Health Court is designed to offer offenders with serious mental illness the opportunity for treatment, typically combined with restrictive probation, in lieu of jail time. Offenders can be referred to the program by police officers, Magisterial District Judges, attorneys, probation officers, case managers, prison staff, judges, family members, and other agencies or individuals who come into contact with an offender who might qualify for the program. For more information, please contact emanning@dauphincounty.gov.