Below is a list of past trainings hosted by the Resource Center, with links to more specific information about each event. Handouts, presentation slides, and recordings are available for many of the workshops and plenary sessions.

Collaborative Approaches to Identifying and Serving Substance Exposed Newborns:
Lessons Learned from Four Demonstration Projects
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

In this webcast , hosted by the National AIA Resource Center, representatives from four federally funded demonstration projects share their experiences developing policies and procedures to meet the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) mandates related to substance exposed newborns (SEN). Specifically, the presenters discuss challenges they have encountered in multidisciplinary collaboration, and strategies they have employed to overcome those challenges.

An on demand webcast of this seminar is available for viewing.

Treating Parents with Co-occurring Disorders: Substance Abuse, Mental Health, HIV
August 20-21, 2009

This training provided information to increase participants' knowledge and skills in working with co-occurring disordered clients, particularly parents of young children. It focused on the relationships between psychiatric and substance use disorders and HIV, common problems among clients, psychosocial treatment approaches, pharmacotherapy, self-help groups, adherence, and relapse issues. An integrated model of treatment was presented that can be adapted to individual or group treatment contexts.

2009 Teleconference Series

The Resource Center hosted six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics included the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families.

Recordings of these trainings are available.

HIV, Families & Permanency Planning:  Addressing New Realities
A National Webcast — September 9, 2008

Progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS has created new possibilities for families and their children. This national training featured a panel of experts — attorneys, social workers, and PWHAs — who have current information, experiences and insights to share about future care and custody planning for children whose parents have HIV/AIDS.

View the complete video of this training.

2008 Teleconference Series

The Resource Center hosted six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics included the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families.

Recordings of these trainings are available.

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

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

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 Webcast
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.