National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : About AIA : Legislation

The Source - Spring 2008
This issue focuses on economic self-sufficiency for families affected by HIV and/or substance abuse. More...

Strengthening Connections Conference Archive
This conference highlighted the unique parenting challenges among families affected by substance abuse, HIV and/or incarceration, and the importance of the parent-child relationship in a child’s development. More...

2008 Teleconference Training Series
The Resource Center will host six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics include the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families. More...

Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families Affected by Substance Abuse or HIV (2007)
This guidebook provides practitioners and administrators with guidance in assessing, supporting, and strengthening parenting skills and parent-child relationships. [PDF]

National Abandoned Infants
Assistance Resource Center
University of California, Berkeley
1950 Addison Street, Suite 104 # 7402
Berkeley, CA 94720-7402
Phone: (510) 643-8390
Fax: (510) 643-7019
E-mail: aia@berkeley.edu

In 1988, Congress passed the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act. This legislation provides funding to support the National AIA Resource Center and direct service projects for children who are abandoned or at-risk of abandonment due to HIV and substance abuse, and their families.

Subsequently, this legislation was reauthorized by PL 102-236 in 1991 and PL 104-235 in 1996.

On June 25, 2003, the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 was signed by the President and became Public Law No: 108-36. This law reauthorized AIA, along with other programs, through fiscal year 2008.

Approximately, $12,000,000 was appropriated for the AIA program for the 2004 fiscal year.

Additional Information:

AIA Act: Assisting Families Affected By HIV/AIDS& Substance Use [PDF]
Facts About Families, HIV/AIDS, & Perinatal Substance Exposure [PDF]
AIA Best Practices: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Services to Children and Families Affected by HIV and Substance Abuse [PDF]
Addressing the Needs of the Neediest: The First Ten Years of the Abandoned Infants Assistance Program [PDF]
The Source: Celebrating 10 Years of the AIA Program [PDF]