Additional Information The Resource Center has developed a collection of resources and information related to substance exposed newborns.
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
Substance Exposed Newborns: Weaving
Together Effective Policy & Practice
October 6-7, 2005
Conference Archive Recordings, PowerPoint slides, and other
handouts from many of the presentations are available below:
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Framing the Policy & Practice Debate on Substance
Exposed Newborns Barry Lester, Ph.D., Director, Infant
Development Center, Women and Infants Hospital, Brown
Medical School (65 minutes)
Presentation slides
[PDF]
and handout: Substance Use During
Pregnancy: Time for Policy to Catch Up with Research [PDF]
The Honorable James C. Greenwood, President
and CEO, Biotechnology Industries Listen to
this presentation (MP3 format, 35 minutes).
Policies & Practices:
What's Happening Around the Country
Moderator: Steve Christian, Program Manager, Children and Families Program,
National Conference of State Legislatures Listen to
this presentation (MP3 format, 90 minutes).
Nancy Young, Ph.D., Director, National
Center on Substance Abuse & Child Welfare
Presentation slides [PDF]
Amy Price, M.P.A., Associate Director & Krista
Drescher-Burke, M.S.W., Research
Assistant, National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
Presentation slides [PDF]
Friday, October 7, 2005
Working Collaboratively
with Substance Users & their Newborns
Representatives from Arizona, Rhode Island, Washington State, and the metro
areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Kansas City, Missouri, briefly
described their collaborative efforts to identify and address the needs of
substance users and their newborns. Listen to
this presentation (MP3 format, 75 minutes).
Washington
State Presentation slides - handout #1 [PDF],
handout #2 [PDF]
Luncheon Plenary
Listen to
this presentation (MP3 format, 40 minutes).
Federal
Directions in Substance Abuse Treatment & Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Andrew McKechnie, Legislative Aide
to Congressman Jim Ramstad, MN
Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder: Have We Made Any Progress?
Kathleen Mitchell, M.H.S., L.C.A.D.C, Vice President and National Spokesperson,
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Presentation slides [PDF]
Future Directions in the Prevention & Treatment
of Substance Exposed Newborns
Ira Chasnoff, M.D., President, Children’s Research
Triangle (43 minutes)
(To protect confidentiality, some slides have been removed from the original presentation.)
Presentation slides [PDF] and handout: The 4P’s Plus Screen for
Substance Use in Pregnancy: Clinical Application
and Outcomes [PDF]
