Community leaders seeking to implement AOT often have questions about how the program works in practice. We find that best people to answer those questions are the judges, doctors and AOT team members on the ground. To that end, we are conducting interviews with AOT practitioners from across the country to discuss the strategies they have employed in building successful AOT programs.
Judge Oscar Kazen, San Antonio, TX
Treatment Advocacy Center Policy Director Brian Stettin chats with Associate Probate Judge Oscar Kazen of Bexar County, Texas, about the “black robe effect” that AOT relies upon to motivate treatment adherence; the effectiveness of AOT in the absence of judicial contempt power; and the nuts-and-bolts of moving an AOT case through the docket of the probate court.
Dr. LaTricia Coffey, Las Vegas, NV
Treatment Advocacy Center Policy Director Brian Stettin chats with Dr. LaTricia Coffey, a psychiatrist and medical director of the Clark County AOT program operated by the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, about the challenges of starting the program from scratch after Nevada enacted AOT in 2013; and her own role in ensuring that the medical needs of AOT patients are met.
Probate Monitor Nick Schrantz, Hamilton, OH
Treatment Advocacy Center Policy Director Brian Stettin chats with Nicholas Schrantz, Probate Monitor for the AOT program in Butler County Ohio, about his function as a liaison between the court which orders AOT, the patients who participate in AOT, and the treatment community responsible for providing AOT.