As Deputy Director of Sponsors, Nick works to ensure consistent and evidence-based program delivery, provides clinical supervision and oversight to program directors, case managers, and counselors. He works with the Executive Director to advocate on a state and national level for systemic changes to our nation’s justice system and to remove barriers to an individual’s successful reintegration back into our communities after periods of incarceration. This talk provides insight to a program that works, and the questions begs, why isn't every community using this system? Nicholas Crapser, Deputy Director of Sponsors, is a Ph.D. student in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at Oregon State University. Nick is a state and nationally licensed addictions counselor, mental health counselor, and clinical supervisor. He received his Master of Arts in Counseling, Bachelor of Science in Human Development, and has a specialized degree in Chemical Dependency Studies. His workplace includes county drug courts, family treatment/dependency courts, and jail reentry programs as both a counselor and adviser. He has worked in every modality of addictions and behavioral health treatment from medically managed detoxification and hospitalization to aftercare. In addition to his time as an adjunct professor, he spent a number of years working with a Washington based Indian Tribe providing behavioral health and addiction treatment services to Native American populations. As Deputy Director of Sponsors, Nick works to ensure consistent and evidence-based pro This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx