National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : Project Milagro

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

Project Milagro
5233 E. Beverly Boulevard
East Los Angeles, CA 90022
Phone: (323) 728-9577
Fax: (323) 728-3483

Project Director:
Lourdes Carranza, MS

Evaluator:
Martha Cristo, PhD

Sponsoring Organization:
Bienvenidos Children's Center, Inc

Description:
Bienvenidos Children’s Center, Inc., a private nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California, has provided culturally responsive comprehensive services under the Abandoned Infants Assistance Program since 1992. The project targets Latinas and their families in Greater East Los Angeles and East Hollywood who are at risk for abandoning their young children due to substance abuse or HIV/AIDS. Project objectives are to: (1) prevent abandonment of infants/young children exposed to HIV and or/ substance abuse; (2) achieve abstinence from drugs/alcohol; (3) improve health and mental health outcomes; (4) decrease stressors; (5) increase knowledge of health promoting practices, (6) treatment protocols and risk reduction for perinatally exposed children; (7) improve child development and health outcomes; (8) improve parent/child relationships; (9) develop an evidence-based model of service delivery; (10) increase knowledge among 300 health and child welfare professionals.