National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : University of Colorado

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

New Start for Infants
1825 Marion Street
Denver, CO 80218
Phone: (303) 864-5255
Fax: (303) 864-5179
Email: clyman.rob@tchden.org
Website: www.kempe.org

Project Director
Dr. Robert Clyman

Project Evaluator
Julie Madden Rodriguez

Sponsoring Organization
Kempe Children’s Center/University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

New Start for Infants in Denver is a citywide, comprehensive consortium of family-serving organizations that provide an early intervention system of care for families of young infants who enter out-of-home placement in Denver. Parents and babies have many challenges and require enhanced access to integrated services across multiple service sectors. The three goals of the program are: (1) improve the infants’ safety and permanency and improve the parents’ and children’s well-being; (2) train more professionals and expand the institutionalized structural service linkages in the system of care; and (3) increase public awareness and commitment by the lay public and the corporate community to abused and neglected children including abandoned infants and their families. Our comprehensive consortium of agencies in Denver includes the Department of Human Services, Juvenile Court, City Attorney’s Office, Denver Public Schools, and almost all of the leading service organizations that provide substance abuse, mental health, education, developmental disabilities, and health care in Denver.

Our clinical intervention program provides specialists who work with parents in the home to help them obtain coordinated services and to strengthen their parenting capability. At the system level, we train many professionals and develop service linkages between agencies. At the community level, we are engaging in a public awareness campaign and engaging the business community to support abused and neglected children, including abandoned infants and their families.