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The Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 reauthorized
the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program and provided funding
over a five-year period to implement a targeted grant program to
regional partnerships for the purpose of improving permanency outcomes
for children affected by methamphetamine or other substance abuse.
The reauthorization language also called for technical assistance
to be provided to the grantees. The grants address a variety of common
systemic and practice challenges that are barriers to optimal family
outcomes. These challenges include recruitment, engagement, and retention
of parents in substance abuse treatment; differences in professional
perspectives and training; conflicting time frames across the systems
to achieve outcomes; and chronic service shortages in both child
welfare services and substance abuse treatment systems.
The RPG Program, administered by the Children’s Bureau,
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health
and Human Services will support a host of activities and services
to address these barriers, including the creation or expansion
of family treatment drug courts, improvement of system-wide collaboration,
expanded access to comprehensive family-centered treatment, use
of evidence-based practice approaches such as motivational enhancement
therapy, parent advocates, and recovery management approaches to
drug treatment monitoring. The outcomes of the grants will be monitored
in a performance measurement system focused on documenting child
safety, permanency, and well-being; systems improvement; and treatment-related
outcomes such as timeliness of treatment access, length of stay
in treatment, and parent’s recovery.
The NCSACW provides programmatic technical assistance to the 53
sites awarded the multi-year grants.
RPG TA Requests
If you are a RPG site interested in requesting
TA from the NCSACW, please contact Kim Dennis at rpg@cffutures.org.
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