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

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 Promise
315 West 36th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 766-4522
Fax: (212) 766-1696
E-mail: tfc@thefamilycenter.org
Website: www.thefamilycenter.org

Project Director:
Ivy Gamble Cobb, LMSW

Evaluator:
Laurie Bauman

Sponsoring Organization:
The Family Center

Description:
Project Promise strengthens new families that are created when a parent with AIDS and/or substance abuse is no longer able to care for his or her children. Its four goals are to: (1) provide caregivers of children whose parents are no longer able to care for them, as a result of AIDS and/or substance abuse, with family centered services (e.g., workshops and individual counseling); (2) strengthen the long-term stability of the newly created families; (3) increase outreach activities, overcome barriers to recruitment, and engage consumers in reaching their peers, with special attention to the needs of elderly and young adult caregivers; and (4) increase consumer involvement in identifying needs and shaping Family Center caregiver services (e.g., enhancing the capability of caregivers to serve as public spokespersons utilizing targeted bilingual print materials).