FDTC Graduation Requirements
To graduate FDTC, participants must:
- Abstinence for at least 3 months in Level 4
- Successful discharge from a substance dependency treatment program
- Documented participation in an aftercare program
- Attain stable housing
- Resolve restitution (program fees, community service)
- Resolve any outstanding warrants
- Maintain support system, relapse prevention plan, and safety plan for the children
- Reunification with children or appropriate permanency plan
- Drug Court team recommendation
In the end, instead of losing custody of their children, participants spend over a year in treatment, rebuild their lives, become tax paying instead of tax using members of society, and transform into stable and trustworthy parents.