National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : CRADLES

Strengthening Connections
September 10-12, 2012
This conference is designed to increase your knowledge of parent-child attachment in families affected by HIV, substance abuse, and trauma. More...

2012 Webinar Series
The Resource Center will host four webinar trainings in 2012 on stable housing, community partnerships, HIV medication adherence, and peer workers. More...

Addressing the Needs of Parentified Children of HIV Positive Parents
The first in a series of Research-to-Practice briefs, this document addresses best practices for working with HIV negative children who have taken on a more parental role in the family due to a parent's positive HIV status. [PDF]

Engaging and Retaining Pregnant and Parenting Substance Users in Programs
This Research-to-Practice Brief details recommendations designed to increase retention and engagement when working with pregnant and parenting substance users. [PDF]

Online Tutorial: Women and Children with HIV/AIDS
This tutorial is designed as an introduction to the complex issues associated with HIV/AIDS among women and children in the United States. The tutorial can be taken for 2 CE units. More...

Online Tutorial: Substance Use During Pregnancy
This tutorial provides an overview of the prevalence and nature of substance use among pregnant women in the United States. The tutorial can be taken for 1 CE unit. More...

Webcast: School Readiness in Infants and Toddlers Affected by Substance Abuse and/or HIV
In this webcast, representatives from three agencies share what they are doing to address school readiness for young children affected by perinatal substance abuse and/or HIV. More...

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

CRADLES
Austin Recovery
8402 Cross Park Drive
Austin, TX 78754
Phone: (512) 697-8690
Fax: (512) 916-8841
www.austinrecovery.org

Project Director
Trish Taylor Rivera, LSW
trivera@austinrecovery.org

Project Evaluator
Holly C. VanScoy, MSW, PhD
academres@aol.com

Sponsoring Organization
Austin Recovery

Description:
The Collaboration to Reduce Abandonment and Deliver Local Education and Supports (CRADLES) serves infants in Austin, TX who have been or are at risk of being abandoned by mothers who are affected by HIV, substance abuse, and/or other serious physical, mental health, or social problems. Incorporating a community-based, family-focused approach, CRADLES is dedicated to developing a local system to insure that infants born in this community have safe, nurturing, and permanent homes. CRADLES reunifies parents and infants who have been separated, as well as insuring that infants whose birth parents are not able to provide them with permanent care quickly become part of permanent families who can appropriately care for them into early adulthood. This project is the result of a partnership between Austin Recovery and Any Baby Can, two agencies serving at-risk pregnant women, infants, young children, and their families, and a number of other community collaborators including hospitals and clinics, child welfare, early childhood development and the District Attorney’s office.

CRADLES includes a robust three-tiered, multivariate evaluation of the project’s processes, outcomes, and contexts that is formative and summative in character, using a range of qualitative and quantitative data about the infants, their natural and/or adoptive families, the service delivery system, and the larger community context along with information on the attainment of expected (and unanticipated) outcomes, objectives, and goals.