NCJ Number
205563
Date Published
2004
Length
94 pages
Annotation
This report presents information on training curricula that can assist in preparing child welfare workers to identify substance-abuse and child-protection problems in the families they serve.
Abstract
This volume describes identified, available, on-topic training curricula that focus on the intersection of issues in the child welfare system and the alcohol and drug systems. This compendium helps address the need for collaboration between these two systems in serving families that have interrelated substance abuse and child protection problems. The training curricula profiled in this report were identified through responses to postings in publications and on Web sites used by child welfare and substance abuse professionals. The training curricula described are diverse in focus, content, and organization. The majority of the training curricula were developed for a child welfare audience, often front-line workers. The purpose of most of these curricula is to provide an overview of substance abuse and addiction and to improve child welfare casework with alcohol and drug-involved families. Contents of the curricula typically include discussions of the nature of substance abuse and addiction, identification and assessment, intervention with families, and the treatment and recovery processes. Curricula designed specifically for substance abuse professionals are fewer in number. The compendium is organized by topic, and each training curriculum is categorized according to its focus and content. The topics are as follows: an overview of substance abuse and addiction, an overview of child welfare, collaboration and service integration, assessment, service provision, working with children and adolescents, treatment and recovery, foster care/adoption and substance abuse, and the courts and legal representation.