The Source - Spring 2008 This issue focuses on economic self-sufficiency for families affected by HIV and/or substance abuse. More...
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...
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
Spirituality: A Powerful Force in
Women's Recovery September 15-16, 2003
This symposium considered the role that spirituality plays
in the recovery process for women from various ethnic and
racial backgrounds, and helped service providers integrate
spirituality into their work with women in recovery.
Recordings of the keynote speakers are available
below:
The Upward Spiral: Women and Recovery
Stephanie Covington, PhD (60 minutes)
Download the PowerPoint slides [PPT].
How to Integrate Spirituality into
Work with Substance Using Women
Geneva Berns, MAT provides information
and tools to help workers explore their own spirituality
as a critical first step toward integrating spirituality
into work with clients. Listen
to this presentation (MP3 format, 20 minutes)
Dusty Miller, EdD presents specific,
concrete strategies that blend psycho-educational process
and expressive activities to help women discover their own
spirituality, and explore sustaining spiritual resources
as part of their healing process. Listen
to this presentation (MP3 format, 20 minutes).
Freeing the Spirit
China Galland, MA
Ms. Galland presents stories, slides, and tales of the divine
feminine from a multiplicity of cultures throughout the world.
Weaving ancient narratives of the sacred together with powerful
images of the sacred feminine, Ms. Galland highlights one
of the most ancient images of the divine feminine found the
world over—the powerful, benevolent, healing Dark Mother
or Black Virgin. This presentation is based largely on “Free
Spirits,” the national pilot project, founded by Ms.
Galland, to take these transformative images to incarcerated
women and girls. Listen
to this presentation (MP3 format, 48 minutes).
This symposium considered the role that spirituality plays
in the recovery process for women from various ethnic and
racial backgrounds, and helped service providers integrate
spirituality into their work with women in recovery.