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Collocation: Integrating Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Services
Eunju Lee,Nina Esaki,Rose Greene +2 more
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Findings suggest that clearly defined procedures and sufficient staffing of qualified substance abuse counselors could lead to better programs.Abstract:
This article presents findings from a process evaluation of a pilot program to address parental substance abuse in the child welfare system. By placing substance abuse counselors in a local child welfare office, the collocation program was designed to facilitate early identification, timely referral to treatment, and improved treatment engagement of substance-abusing parents. Frontline child welfare workers in 6 of the 7 pilot sites endorsed the program as they found that the collocated substance abuse counselors provided additional resources and facilitated case processing. Findings suggest that clearly defined procedures and sufficient staffing of qualified substance abuse counselors could lead to better programs.read more
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Integrated Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services for Women: A Progress Review.
TL;DR: A review of empirical literature reveals improvements in service utilization and outcomes for women when substance abuse and child welfare services are integrated, and strategies developed provide useful guidelines for developing components of effective, evidence-based programs for substance-involved women in the child welfare system.
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Comprehensive treatment for co-occurring child maltreatment and parental substance abuse: outcomes from a 24-month pilot study of the MST-Building Stronger Families program.
TL;DR: Preliminary outcomes from a pilot study of Multisystemic Therapy-Building Stronger Families support the viability of a more rigorous (i.e., randomized) evaluation of the MST-BSF model.
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Interagency Collaboration between Child Welfare Agencies, Schools, and Mental Health Providers and Children's Mental Health Service Receipt
Emmeline Chuang,Robert Lucio +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of data from a national, longitudinal study of families involved with the U.S. child welfare system suggests that child welfare agency collaboration with schools has a significant effect on children's use of both school-based and outpatient mental health services.
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The Impact of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) on Family Outcomes
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Collaboration Between Addiction Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: Opportunities in a Canadian Context
Laurie A. Drabble,Nancy Poole +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore factors that facilitate or impede collaboration in a Canadian context and highlight the importance of examining cross-system collaboration specific to regional policy contexts, such as British Columbia's harm reduction approach to substance use and addiction.
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Does substance abuse treatment make a difference for child welfare case outcomes? A statewide longitudinal analysis
TL;DR: This article examined the influence of three key factors in the treatment process on child welfare outcomes and found that when women entered treatment more quickly, spent more time in treatment, or completed at least one treatment episode, their children spent fewer days in foster care and were more likely to be reunified with their parents.
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Substance abuse treatment and the recurrence of maltreatment among caregivers with children living at home: a propensity score analysis
TL;DR: Event history analyses showed that clients who received substance abuse treatment were nearly twice as likely to have another child abuse report within 18 months.