National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : Healthy Connections for Intact Families

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]

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
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...

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

Healthy Connections for Intact Families
2213 Franklin Ave.
Toledo, OH 43620
419 251-2453
connie_cameron@mhsnr.org

Project Director
Connie Cameron

Evaluator
Nancy Buderer

Sponsoring Organization
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center

Description:
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center (MSVMC) was founded in 1855 as Toledo ’s first hospital. Today, MSVMC stands on its original site and has grown in both size and capacity to serve as the regional critical care referral center within a seven-hospital system.

MSVMC’s Family Care Center (FCC), where Healthy Connections is headquartered, opened in 1992 to provide a medical home to the predominantly low-income and minority residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. The project works to prevent the abandonment of infants and young children, particularly those who have been perinatally exposed to a dangerous drug, those with HIV, and those who have been perinatally exposed to HIV. It attempts to increase permanency outcomes for targeted pregnant women and their children by developing and implementing comprehensive community-based support services through a consortium of key service providers. The target population is pregnant women who have a positive drug screen, history of drug abuse, and/or are positive for HIV/AIDS.