Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Johnstown who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Johnstown are occasionally sent to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Johnstown, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.