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The NDCRC began conducting a study in 2020 on how treatment courts are portrayed in media. The study tracks mentions of "treatment court" and "drug court" terms in written news media and will catalog and codify the discourse to gauge perception of treatment courts. A first batch of data were collected in November and December of 2020; a second batch of data are being collected in January 2022.

team coordinated a meeting with journalist Corinne Purtill, who was working on a story for the New Yorker. the story is planned for the magazine's online edition on missing persons with dementia: why some individuals with the condition wander away from safe locations, and the ways that search and rescue and law enforcement agencies are adapting their operations to better understand and assist this group of people, The team met with her and answered all questions about the Home Safe Program and highlighted the work of the sites.

Join the International Association of Chiefs of Police for their upcoming “Interactions with the Media” webinar on August 4, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. ET. This webinar will address how police departments can work with the media to deliver victim-centered and trauma-informed messaging to the community.

During this session, Chief Fred Fletcher (ret.) from the Chattanooga, Tennessee Police Department will discuss how police departments can work with the media to deliver victim-centered and trauma-informed messaging to the community, while also using the media to highlight agency successes around responding to crimes of domestic and sexual violence.