the translating drug court research into practice initiative is part of a general trend in recent years towards more and more emphasis on what does research have to say that can benefit the person who's on the ground? so instead of researchers talking to one another, they're really trying to take our research and make it available to people in ways that could improve the job that they do. the r2p program is a cooperative agreement between the national institute of justice, the bureau of justice assistance, the office of criminal justice programs of the school of public affairs of american university and the national center for state courts. the purpose of the project is really to deliver the best research that's out there, including new and emerging research that will be relevant to the problems that the field is facing. so, we came up with the project of trying to develop ways to more timely and in a more interactive way share what has been learned, so that people can, as the name implies, move from the theory of the research to putting it into practical application. the r2p project tr