Strengthening Connections September 10-12, 2012
This conference is designed to increase your knowledge of parent-child attachment in families affected by HIV, substance abuse, and trauma. More...
Women and Children with HIV/AIDS (March 2012) [PDF]
2012 Webinar Series
The Resource Center hosted four webinar trainings in 2012 on stable housing, community partnerships, HIV medication adherence, and peer workers. Find all four recordings and slides from our series here!
Addressing the Needs of Parentified Children of HIV Positive Parents
The first in a series of Research-to-Practice briefs, this document addresses best practices for working with HIV negative children who have taken on a more parental role in the family due to a parent's positive HIV status. [PDF]
Engaging and Retaining Pregnant and Parenting Substance Users in Programs
This Research-to-Practice Brief details recommendations designed to increase retention and engagement when working with pregnant and
parenting substance users. [PDF]
Online Tutorial: Women and Children with HIV/AIDS This tutorial is designed as an introduction to the complex issues associated with HIV/AIDS among women and children in the United States. The tutorial can be taken for 2 CE units. More...
Online Tutorial: Substance Use During Pregnancy This tutorial provides an overview of the prevalence and nature of substance use among pregnant women in the United States. The tutorial can be taken for 1 CE unit. More...
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
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.
They also share policies and procedures developed to identify pregnant substance users and SEN, and they present strategies the projects use to engage pregnant substance users and develop plans of safe care for SEN. Although the projects are each housed in a different type of agency - private hospital, state public health agency, local child welfare agency, and university based early intervention program - they all developed collaborative workgroups with similar representation, and they all employed specialized staff to engage families in services.
Christina Little, PhD, Colorado's Systems Integration Model for Infants/Baby Steps (C-SIMI), University of Colorado and Kempe Children's Center, Denver, CO [Bio]
Celeste Smith, MA, Healthy Connections, St. Vincent Mercy Family Care Center, Toledo, OH [Bio]
Liz Twombly, MS, Family Early Advocacy and Treatment (FEAT), Early Intervention Program Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR [Bio]
Enid Watson, MDiv, A Helping Hand: Mother to Mother, The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Institute for Health and Recovery, Boston, MA [Bio]
Throughout the webcast, the presenters refer to the following resources:
Focus Groups on Substance Exposed Newborns: Summary Report [PDF]
Prenatal Screening and Brief Intervention Algorithm, (FEAT Program, 2009) [PDF]
Standard Admission Interview for Medication Use, Substance Use & Intimate Partner Violence, (FEAT Program and Sacred Heart Medical Center, 2009) [MS Word]
Risk Factors for Substance Exposed Newborns Checklist, (FEAT Program and Sacred Heart Medical Center, 2008) [MS Word]
Standard Risk Assessment to Identify Substance Exposed Newborn Baby’s Algorithm, (FEAT Program, 2008) [PDF]
Standard Risk Assessment to Identify Substance Exposed Newborn Mother’s Algorithm, (FEAT Program, 2008) [PDF]
Community Standard for Maternal and Newborn Drug Screening, (C-SIMI Identification Work Group) [PDF]
Collaboration Procedures for A Helping Hand: Mother to Mother (AHH Program, MA Department of Public Health, 2009) [MS Word]
A Helping Hand: Mother to Mother Flow Chart (AHH Program, MA Department of Public Health, 2009) [MS Word]
