National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Training : Conference Archive

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

Strengthening Connections
between Parents and Children Affected by Substance Abuse, HIV, & Incarceration
March 12-14, 2008

SC Conference Logo This conference presented family-focused, multi-disciplinary strategies that: (1) strengthen and support parent-child relationships to prevent separation due to substance abuse and/or HIV; (2) maintain parent-child relationships during necessary separation due to incarceration, substance abuse and/or HIV; and (3) rebuild parent-child relationships during reunification.

Recordings of the keynote speakers from this conference are available.

2007 Teleconference Series

Economic Self-sufficiency for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and HIV

Women, HIV, and Employment
Employment for Parents in Recovery: Minimizing Barriers & Maximizing Opportunities

Infant Mental Health

The ABCs of Infant Mental Health
Taming the Ghosts in the Nursery
Supporting Families in Recovery through Infant Mental Health Interventions

Recordings of these trainings are available.

2006 Teleconference Series

Infants Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamines: Developmental Effects and Effective Interventions
Facilitating Disclosure with Children in HIV/AIDS-Impacted Families
Attachment: Helping Babies Develop, Helping Mothers Recover
HIV Prevention Interventions with Women Affected by Substance Use

Audio recordings of these trainings are available.

Substance Exposed Newborns: Weaving Together Effective Policy & Practice
October 6-7, 2005

Substance Exposed Newborns conference logo The purpose of this conference was to focus attention on the needs and circumstances of substance exposed newborns and their families; to showcase exemplary multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts, policies, and practices from around the nation; and to transfer this knowledge to a group of committed stakeholders working with pregnant substance users and substance exposed newborns.

Recordings of the plenary sessions from this conference are available.

Sustaining Your Child and Family Services Organization in Lean Times
A Web Cast
August 5, 2005

Are you: Operating on the fly? In a constant state of uncertainty? Worried about whether
your organization will survive? In this era of constricted resources and stiff competition, learn how to plan strategically and access diversified financial support to grow and sustain your program.

Video recordings of the workshops from this one-day symposium are available for viewing.

Raising Kin: The Psychological Well-Being of Substance-Affected Children in Relative Care
September 27-28, 2004

The purpose of this conference was to help service providers and caregivers understand the unique psychosocial issues affecting children residing in kinship care due to parental substance abuse.

The conference identified the children's strengths, the benefits, and challenges of kinship care, and useful strategies and/or interventions for working with these children and their families. The issues surrounding kinship care and substance abuse were addressed from a child-focused, family-centered perspective.

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 from this conference are available.