Save the Date Substance Exposed Newborns: Collaborative Approaches to a Complex Issue
June 23-24, 2010
This national summit will bring together colleagues from the fields of health, child welfare,
drug treatment, and early intervention to consider effective policies
and collaborative approaches to prevent, identify, refer,
and address the needs of substance exposed newborns. More...
Webcast Now Available Collaborative Approaches to Identifying and Serving Substance Exposed Newborns
In this video, representatives from four federally funded demonstration projects shared their experiences developing policies and procedures to meet the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act mandates. More...
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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]
