# Presentation: 025237

## Update on NCSACWPresented to National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators

**Nancy K. Young, Ph.D.**
**Director**
- March 20, 2005

**4940 Irvine Boulevard**
**Suite 202**
**Irvine, CA 92620**
**714.505.3525**
**ncsacw.samhsa.gov**

## A Program of the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
and the
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Children’s Bureau
Office on Child Abuse and Neglect

**Substance Abuse and Mental Health **
**Services Administration**
**Center for Substance Abuse Treatment**
**and the**
**Administration for Children and Families**
**Administration on Children, Youth and Families**
**Children’s Bureau**
**Office on Child Abuse and Neglect**

**Notes:**
** I’d like to take just a moment to introduce to you the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare. We are coming up on our 2 year anniversary next month and we are quite pleased with the progress that is underway. 
Many of you may know that we are co-funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Administration for Children, Youth and Families’ Children’s Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. 

##  Developed and Implemented by Staff of 
   Children and Family Futures 
   with a Consortium of National Organizations:
 American Public Human Services Association
 Child Welfare League of America
 National Association of State Alcohol and Drug 
   Abuse Directors
 National Council of Juvenile and Family Court   
   Judges
 National Indian Child Welfare Association

-    Children and Family Futures
-    with a Consortium of National Organizations:
** **American Public Human Services Association
-  Child Welfare League of America
-  National Association of State Alcohol and Drug
-    Abuse Directors
-  National Council of Juvenile and Family Court
-    Judges
-  National Indian Child Welfare Association

**Notes:**
** I’d like to take just a moment to introduce to you the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare. We are coming up on our 2 year anniversary next month and we are quite pleased with the progress that is underway. 
Many of you may know that we are co-funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Administration for Children, Youth and Families’ Children’s Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. 

## MISSION:
	To improve systems and practice for families with substance use disorders who are involved in the child welfare and family judicial systems by assisting local, State and tribal agencies

- MISSION:
- 	To improve systems and practice for families with substance use disorders who are involved in the child welfare and family judicial systems by assisting local, State and tribal agencies

**Notes:**
You have a handout in your materials on our technical assistance program and how to reach us as well as an announcement of our first on-line curricula. 
This on-line training is directed to substance abuse counselors and explains child welfare services and the dependency court. It takes about 4 hours to complete, it is free of charge and comes with 4 hours of CEUs for those that are interested. Our second on-line curricula will be released in a few months and targets child welfare workers and explains addiction and recovery.
You can visit our website and leave us your email address if you are not currently on our distribution list to receive announcements of our products and activities and we look forward to hearing more from you.

## Goals:
To develop and implement a comprehensive program of information gathering and dissemination
To provide technical assistance
To develop knowledge and its application that promotes effective practice, organizational, and system changes

- Goals:
- To develop and implement a comprehensive program of information gathering and dissemination
- To provide technical assistance
- To develop knowledge and its application that promotes effective practice, organizational, and system changes

**Notes:**
You have a handout in your materials on our technical assistance program and how to reach us as well as an announcement of our first on-line curricula. 
This on-line training is directed to substance abuse counselors and explains child welfare services and the dependency court. It takes about 4 hours to complete, it is free of charge and comes with 4 hours of CEUs for those that are interested. Our second on-line curricula will be released in a few months and targets child welfare workers and explains addiction and recovery.
You can visit our website and leave us your email address if you are not currently on our distribution list to receive announcements of our products and activities and we look forward to hearing more from you.

## Began Operations September 2002

## Technical Assistance Resources:Five Levels

-    resources including our library
-  Telephone and video conferencing consultation
-  On-site consultants for conferences and
-    facilitating collaborative efforts
-  In-depth technical assistance program
-  Site-sponsored assistance

**Technical Assistance Resources:****Five Levels**

## Connecting AOD, CWS, Court Systems: 

**Information Sharing &  Management **
**Training and Staff Development**
**Budgeting and Program Sustainability**
**Building Community Supports**
**Working with Related Agencies and Support Systems**

**From CSAT Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 27: Navigating the Pathways *Revised March 2003**

**Underlying Values**
**Screening and Assessment**
**Client Engagement and Retention in Care**
**AOD Services to Children **

**Joint Accountability and Shared Outcomes**

**Connecting AOD, CWS, Court Systems: **
**Elements of System Linkages***

## 10 Element Framework
Matrix of Progress in Collaborative Efforts
Collaborative Values Inventory
Collaborative Capacity Instrument
Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention and Recovery – SAFERR 

- Matrix of Progress in Collaborative Efforts
- Collaborative Values Inventory
- Collaborative Capacity Instrument
- Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention and Recovery – SAFERR

- Development of a Comprehensive Framework and Policy Tools

## In-Depth TA Program

- Round I – July 2003 to December 2004
- Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Virginia
- Round II – January 2005 to March 2006
- Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Squaxin Island Tribe

## Four On-Line Curricula

- Substance Abuse Counselors
- Child Welfare Workers
- Family/Dependency Court Judges and Attorneys
- State Legislators

## National Conference

- July 2004, Baltimore
- Received over 100 workshop proposals
- 440 Attended – turned away 160

## Material Development

- Understanding Substance Abuse and Facilitating Recovery: A Guide for Child Welfare Workers
- White Papers
- Review of Substance Abuse Issues in State’s CFSR and PIPs
- Funding Comprehensive Services
- Methamphetamine: Addiction, Treatment, Outcomes and Implications for Families
- Report on In-Depth Technical Assistance Program

## Products In Development

- On-Line Materials for Training Child Welfare Workers in Substance Use, Mental Health Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders
- Report on State Policies and Case Study Examples of Best Practices regarding Children Prenatally-Exposed to Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Co-Sponsoring Conference with Abandoned Infants Association October 6 & 7, 2005 Washington, DC

## The Voice of a Child

**Nothing But Silence**
**By Ashley G.**
**Age 12**
**January 2005**

## 
People all around me
Calling out my name
But no I cannot hear them
For my heart is filled with shame
Nothing but silence

But only till the break of dawn
Will I be feeling sad
For wandering out on the streets
Are my birth mom and dad

Why’d she do this to her and me
With this we’ll have to cope
But while she’s clean you never know
There still could be hope

But in the perfect world I know
There’s no harmful stuff
But now I’ve come to realize
It’s just a bunch of bluff

Nothing but silence

- People all around me
- Calling out my name
- But no I cannot hear them
- For my heart is filled with shame
- Nothing but silence
- But only till the break of dawn
- Will I be feeling sad
- For wandering out on the streets
- Are my birth mom and dad
- Why’d she do this to her and me
- With this we’ll have to cope
- But while she’s clean you never know
- There still could be hope
- But in the perfect world I know
- There’s no harmful stuff
- But now I’ve come to realize
- It’s just a bunch of bluff
- Nothing but silence

- Sitting by the widow sill
- A tear rolls down my cheek
- Although it hurts I can’t express
- My heart is just too weak
- Nothing but ache
- It’s funny what one pill can do
- To a mother or a kid
- And now I know that for a fact
- I won’t do what she did
- Nothing but ache
- Now I live a better life
- And drugs...I wouldn’t dare
- Away from all the harmful things
- With a family who cares
- Nothing but love
- I know it hurts, it sure hurt me
- And that’s why I’ll remain drug free
- Nothing... but hope