National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : TIES Program

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

TIES Program
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64108-9898
Phone: (816) 234-3113
Fax: (816) 346-1332
E-mail: omcmann@cmh.edu

Project Director:
Oneta Templeton McMann

Evaluator:
Kathryn Fuger, PhD

Sponsoring Organization:
The Children's Mercy Hospital

Description:
The TIES (Team for Infants Endangered by Substance abuse) Program is an intensive, multi-agency effort to assist families who have a newborn, or a current pregnancy, exposed to alcohol or other drugs and/or HIV. This home-based, community-oriented approach partners with pregnant and postpartum women and their families to promote drug treatment, provide supportive counseling, and connect families to community services. Activities include: in-home counseling, drug treatment referral and support, connection to primary health care, emergency assistance, parenting education, transportation, and linkage to other community resources. The program also provides child developmental assessment and services, childcare, and support groups for women and for relative caregivers. Community training is available for those who serve a drug involved population.