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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

Vulnerable Infants Program 2 of Rhode Island
101 Dudley Street
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: (401) 276-7887
Fax: (401) 277-3623
Email: rsoave@wihri.org
Website: www.wihri.org

Project Director
Rosemary Soave, MSW, LCSW

Project Evaluator
Donna Caldwell, PhD

Sponsoring Organization
Women & Infants Hospital

The Vulnerable Infants Program 2 (VIP2-RI) is a statewide model of coordinated care and support for drug-exposed infants and their mothers. Under the direction of Barry M. Lester, PhD. and Lynne Andreozzi, PhD, the Infant Development Center is a collaborative effort between Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital. This unique program is designed to improve the community’s ability to manage cases of drug-exposed children at-risk for compromised development and to provide the earliest and best intervention for vulnerable infants. VIP2-RI specializes in: (1) coordination of comprehensive services with court, community and state agencies to assist in compliance with the Adoption and Safe Families Act, (2) development of individualized treatment plans for drug-exposed infants, (3) service coordination that promotes the recovery and long-term health of pregnant and post-partum women who have used substances, (4) education and training for court, state and community agencies, and foster parents on issues relating to drug-exposure in children and/or drug addiction in mothers and, (5) provision of additional intervention and follow-up services for drug-exposed infants and their families.