National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : Coordinated Intervention For Women Infants

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

Coordinated Intervention for Women and Children
Yale Child Study Center
47 College Street, Suite 218
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: (203) 785-4947 or (203) 785-6862
Fax: (203) 785-7402 or (203) 785-6860
E-mail: jean.adnopoz@yale.edu

Project Director
Jean Adnopoz, MPH

Project Evaluator
Christian Connell, PhD

Project Coordinator CIWI
Karen Hanson, MSSA

Project Coordinator, HIV/AIDS
Sandra Gossart-Walker, MSW

Sponsoring Organization
Yale Child Study Center

The Coordinated Intervention for Women and Children (CIWI) is a collaborative program to prevent the abandonment of infants and children affected by maternal substance abuse. CIWI provides child-focused, home-based, clinical intervention, prevention, and supportive services to substance abusing mothers and their families to ensure the safety and well-being of children and the stability of their caretakers. CIWI utilizes a team, consisting of a clinician and a family support worker to provide a range of clinical and concrete services. In collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital, CIWI provides a continuum of care based on the client’s needs. Intensive services are provided in the home, while center based services are offered through the hospital clinics. CIWI works closely with the Yale Program for HIV-affected Children and Adolescents that provides similar clinical services to HIV-affected families, both in the home and through the facilitation of groups in the community. As part of the goal to promote permanency, the program, when appropriate, assists parents to utilize the state’s co-guardianship statutes to ensure continuity of care, stability, and child safety.