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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...

Call for Articles
The Resource Center is soliciting articles for the fall 2008 issue of The Source, which will focus on interventions that improve the physical, educational, and psychosocial well-being of infants and young children from families affected by HIV and/or substance abuse. [PDF]

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

Family Links-Kin Care
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
786 Juniper Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: (404) 876-3467
Fax: (404) 876-6391
E-mail: dcarson@emory.edu

Project Director
Donna Carson, MSW, MEd

Project Evaluator
Rebekah Hudgins, MA, MPH

Sponsoring Organization
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Family Links-Kin Care provides comprehensive psychosocial support to relative caregivers and developmental follow-up for infants maternally exposed to substances and/or HIV/AIDS by utilizing a holistic, community-based service approach. The infants’ needs and well-being are at the forefront of this goal; thus Family Links-Kin Care social workers will monitor the developmental status of the infants through the infant’s third year of life by utilizing the Ages and Stages Questionnaires and the Denver II Developmental Assessment. The balance of the family unit is important to ensuring a stable environment for the infant, and to encourage this balance, Family Links-Kin Care will offer intensive family support through counseling, infant developmental assessments, parenting skills training, resource provision, support groups, legal advocacy, respite care, and other services based upon individual need. Home visits, outreach, education, and interagency collaboration are integral parts of Family Links-Kin Care’s approach to providing comprehensive services. By providing these direct services, Family Links-Kin Care promotes healthy outcomes for the infants and encourages an improved quality of life for the families involved.