National AIA Resource Center
Helping professionals help families affected by drugs and HIV

Strengthening Connections 2012
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...


Women and Children with HIV/AIDS
(March 2012) [PDF]


Prenatal Substance Exposure
(March 2012) [PDF]

webinar series

2012 Webinar Series
The Resource Center hosted four webinar trainings in 2012 on stable housing, community partnerships, HIV medication adherence, and peer workers. Find all four recordings and slides from our series here!

Addressing the Needs of Parentified Children of HIV Positive Parents
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
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...

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

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Direct Service Programs : Directory

 

Family Options III
203 N. Wabash Ave., Ste. 918
Chicago,IL 60601
Phone: 312-786-9255
Fax: 312-855-9001
inquiries@familiesandchildrensnetwork.org
http://www.familiesandchildrensnetwork.org

Project Director
Linda S. Coon, JD

Project Evaluators
James Gleeson
Kimberly Harris

Sponsoring Organization
Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network (FCAN)

Description:  
Family Options, a permanency planning project of the Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network (FCAN), has led the development of new programs and policies promoting permanency planning and family support for HIV-affected families. In Illinois, these new legal options include standby guardianship, standby adoption, short-term guardianship, and a host of other guardianship and adoption reforms.

Based in Chicago, Family Options offers comprehensive, interdisciplinary legal and social work services to families when at least one parent is HIV-positive in order to help them make future care and custody choices for their children. Since its inception in 1996, Family Options has served over 700 caregivers and more than 1400 children.

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