XIX Recovery Support Services

Tomorrow Maureen Keating and I are training the "Women's Substance Abuse & Recovery Issues; Perspective of a Clinician & Client" and then the next day I am continuing training with "The Hard Stuff: Heroin, Crack & Meth" at the SEORTC in Athens, OH. Hope both trainings are fantastic. More info soon!

Reviews characteristics of child welfare, substance abuse services, and courts to support cross-system coordination within State, county, and tribal jurisdictions. Considers the framework, population, legislation and funding sources, and services for each system.Pub id: SMA13-4735

Link to PDF Document on store.samhsa.gov

Publication Date: 1/2013
Popularity: 25
Format: Guidelines or Manual
Audience: Legal Community, Professional Care Providers, Program Planners, Administrators, & Project Managers
Population Group: At-Risk, Children of Parents with Alcohol Use or Abuse Problems, Children of Parents with Mental Illness, Children of Parents with Substance Use or Abuse Problems, Foster Care Children, American Indian & Alaska Native, People in the Juvenile Justice System

I will be conducting an all day training on my curriculum "The Hard Stuff: Heroin, Crack Cocaine & Methamphetamine" for the East Central Ohio Regional Training Center (ECORTC) for the first time. The previous day Maureen Keating and I will be training our "Woman's Recovery Issues" together, then I'm staying over the night and doing "Hard Stuff" on Tuesday.

On Monday January 28, 2013 the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP) at the East Central Ohio Regional Training Center (ECORTC) on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. China Krys Darrington and Maureen Keating have both written the curriculum and will be training it this day in order to present their unique perspectives and experience on women dealing with substance use disorders.

Thrilled to hear that the Summit County Childrens Services has been awarded a $2.5 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a five-year study to identify parents with substance-abuse problems and improve services to them with the aim to stabilize troubled families and *not* remove the children from the homes. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to hear of this bold new progressive effort.

[more]http://www.summitkids.org/Home/tabid/36/ctl/DetailDoc/mid/653/docid/277/Default.aspx

Alicia Lieberman, Steven Marans, and Robert Macy are members of the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, which has released its final recommendations for a national response to children's exposure to violence in Defending Childhood: Protect, Heal, Thrive. The report emphasizes prevention and intervention and underscores the importance of trauma-informed care and victim-tailored services.

The 12 Core Concepts, developed by the NCTSN Core Curriculum Task Force, are now available on the NCTSN website. The Concepts serve as the conceptual foundation of the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma and provide a rationale for trauma-informed assessment and intervention. The Concepts cover a broad range of points that practitioners and agencies should consider as they strive to assess, understand, and assist trauma-exposed children, families, and communities in trauma-informed ways.

http://www.nctsn.org/resources/audiences/parents-caregivers/what-is-cts/12-core-concepts

Going back to Summit County Childrens Services and the NEORTC to train my curriculum for "The Hard Stuff: Heroin, Crack & Meth" on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Pleased to be able to bring this information and curriculum to the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program. So grateful to have been asked to come back again to this excellent training facility. I feel it is so important for Child Welfare Workers to understand addiction as a neurological disorder instead of a moral failing and understand some approaches that can help the caregivers engage and make changes to preserve their family unit so everyone gets the win-win outcome.

A last minute addiction to the XIX schedule is a all day training for Cuyahoga County Child Protective Services Social Workers of "The Hard Stuff: Heroin, Crack & Meth" which will take place at the Warrensville Heights Public Library in Cuyahoga County on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Pleased to be able to bring this information and curriculum to the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program.