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Collocation: Integrating Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Services

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Findings suggest that clearly defined procedures and sufficient staffing of qualified substance abuse counselors could lead to better programs.
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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.

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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

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

TL;DR: The Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) as discussed by the authors is an integrated model that pairs child protective service workers with family mentors and partners with treatment providers, and the results support START as an effective integrated program.
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Collaboration Between Addiction Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: Opportunities in a Canadian Context

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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Partnerships for Improved Service Delivery: The Newark Target Cities Project

TL;DR: The Newark Target Cities Project (NTCP), which was developed to address service delivery problems and to improve the outcomes of people admitted to substance abuse treatment programs by creating a seamless treatment network is described.
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Project CONNECT: an interagency partnership to confront new challenges facing at-risk women and children in New York City.

TL;DR: Project CONNECT is a New York State—New York City collaborative venture to facilitate access to, coordinate and expand the delivery of health and human services, during the perinatal period to women and children in the three areas of New York City with the highest rates of morbidity and mortality.
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