A special Chittenden County program that convenes addiction recovery resources in family court will shutter at the end of the year due to a lack of federal funding.

Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Reiber announced the family treatment docket’s end in a Sept. 10 letter.

In 2018, spurred by the state Supreme Court , the Vermont Judicial Commission on Family Treatment Dockets began studying ways for the legal system to address the burgeoning opioid epidemic and its impact on children. At the time, abuse and neglect cases in family court were skyrocketing, up 68% between fiscal years 2013 and 2018, according to the commission’s report .

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High court seeks new approach as child abuse, neglect cases rise by Alan J. Keays January 18, 2018, 7:54 pm

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