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Prevention Programs for Families Affected by Substance Abuse
Find programs and strategies to improve parenting skills and reduce risk factors for child abuse and neglect in families affected by substance abuse, including State and local examples.
Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families Affected by Substance Abuse and HIV: Lessons Learned (PDF - 1540 KB)
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (2007)
Identifies challenges facing families affected by substance abuse and HIV, and provides tips on building relationships with clients, assessing parenting skills and parent-child relationships, parenting intervention strategies, safety planning, staffing, and working with child protective services.
Prevention and Drug Treatment
Testa & Smith
Future of Children, 19(2), 2009
Evaluates research findings on whether prevention programs help parents reduce or control their substance use, improve their parenting skills, prevent maltreatment recurrence, or promote family reunification. (PDF - 198 KB)
Best Beginnings Plus: Reducing Risk Factors Among Families Affected by Substance Abuse (PDF - 614 KB)
Stauffer
The Source: Newsletter of the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center, 14(1), 2005
Discusses interventions with parents, children, and families designed to support positive parent-child relationships, promote optimal child health and development, enhance parental self-sufficiency, and prevent child abuse and neglect among families who abuse substances.
Building Safety and Deepening Our Practice (PDF - 5,919 KB)
De Haan & Manion
Social Work Now: The Practice Journal of Child, Youth and Family, 47, 2011
Explores ways social work practitioners can work with families compromised by substance abuse to create safety plans and improve parenting skills.
Family Treatment Drug Courts
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
Provides information and resources to support States and communities that are implementing family treatment drug courts as a means to enhance family functionality and reunification.
Parenting and Substance Abuse (PDF - 357 KB)
Price (Ed.)
The Source: Newsletter of the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center, 12(2), 2003
Focuses on improving parenting skills in households impacted by substance abuse, including information on several exemplary programs for caregivers with substance abuse problems and their families.
Parenting in Dependency Drug Court (PDF - 120 KB)
Dice, Claussen, Katz, & Cohen
Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 55, 2004
Discusses the process of adapting a parenting program to meet the needs of families in dependency drug court.
Prevention and Drug Treatment
Testa & Smith
Future of Children, 19(2), 2009
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Examines the effectiveness of substance abuse services in preventing child maltreatment, and provides recommendations for improving services to support families exposed to substance abuse.
Service Engagement and Retention for Women with Substance Use Disorders (PDF - 1,055 KB)
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (2011)
Outlines specific engagement and retention strategies to decrease noncompliance and increase participation, to address the needs of pregnant and parenting women who use substances as well as the needs of practitioners working with these families.
Summary of Program Outcomes Addressing Substance Use Disorders Among Families in Child Welfare Services (PDF - 414 KB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (2010)
Summarizes innovative models for linking child welfare and substance abuse treatment and provides information on significant outcomes of State, county, and Tribal jurisdictions that have received In-Depth Technical Assistance.
State and local examples
Oklahoma Prevention Initiative
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (2010)
Provides information on the Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, a program designed to intervene effectively and early to prevent and reduce risk for children associated with parental methamphetamine use and other substance abuse. Resources include the Specialized Outpatient Service's strengthening families program.
Project Milagro: A Comprehensive Model to Serving Latino Families Affected by Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS: Replication Manual
Bienvenidos Children's Center, Inc. (2008)
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Describes the federally funded program Project Milagro, which provides comprehensive services to Mexican and Mexican American mothers and their children in Los Angeles who are identified as high-risk for abandoning their infants and young children due to HIV/AIDS or chronic substance abuse.