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Upcoming Webinar Series: Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities

Family Centered Services for Indian Children Impacted by Family Substance Use Disorders
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Part 1 in the series, "Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities"

This session examines the delivery of family-centered services in the context of the recovery model and community response. It introduces the worker to the scope of such services and focuses on three main topics: providing family preservation services, assisting substance-abusing families, providing family support services.  The workshop is designed to provide the Indian Child Welfare (ICW) worker with an understanding of the importance of these services, which keep children with their own families, and the role of these services in family preservation. The topics include supporting families that are separated from their children, identifying traditional positive supports, and building understanding for the historical issues that surround tribal child welfare.

Presented by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region 10, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), and National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)

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Substance Abuse Treatment, Child Welfare, and Court Collaboration
Thursday, June 26, 2008
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Part 2 in the series, "Substance Abuse and Child Welfare in Tribal Communities"

NCSACW and NICWA have worked together to integrate the Relational Worldview Model and the 10 Element Framework to support administrators in developing and maintaining collaboration in Tribal communities.  The Relational Worldview Model incorporates the Tribal thought of balance and harmony in relationships. There are four major factors that must come together in balance: context, mind, body, and spirit. This Relational Worldview Model views family problems as resulting from an imbalance between these factors. NCSACW uses a 10 Element Framework of system linkages to organize planning efforts of substance abuse treatment, child welfare and courts to improve outcomes for families with substance use disorders involved in the child welfare and family court system.  

The Promoting Safe and Stable Families act recently funded six Tribal community programs under the Targeted Grants to Increase the Well-Being of, and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for, Children Affected by Methamphetamine or Other Substance Abuse. This panel presentation involves representatives from four of these tribes who are currently working to create system-wide linkages between their Tribal community and State or county level departments of child welfare services and substance abuse treatment services. System linkages to be discussed include screening and assessment of parents with substance use disorders and coordinating the service linkages for parents’ treatment and child safety. Particular strategies to be discussed include developing Memoranda of Understanding and staffing meetings to establish and maintain collaborative relationships.

Presented by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region 10, National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), and National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)

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SAMHSA Accepting Grant Applications for Expanding the Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity of “Treatment Drug Courts” Across the Nation
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is accepting applications to expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment services to “problem-solving” courts that use the treatment drug court model in order to provide alcohol and drug treatment, recovery support services supporting substance abuse treatment, screening, assessment, case management, and program coordination to defendants/offenders.
Please see the attached news release for additional details (PDF 134KB)

Targeted Grants to Increase the Well-Being of, and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for, Children Affected by Methamphetamine or Other Substance Abuse, Funding Opportunity No. HHS-2007-ACF-ACYF-CU-0022. There were 53 awarded grantees across the country. Find out which programs were funded.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/discretionary/2007.htm