Projects in California

Since CFF was established in 1996, its staff have worked on issues throughout California that lie at the intersection of child maltreatment and substance abuse. This work has been under contract with the state government, with funding from California-based foundations, with universities and other policy research firms, with treatment providers, and with county and city governments. The products of that work are included in this section. They include

• A review of county-level bridge-building between child welfare agencies and treatment providers, including a matrix of these innovations
  Young, N., & Gardner, S. (1997). Bridge-building: An Action Plan for State and County Efforts to Link Child Welfare Services and Treatment for Alcohol and Other Drugs.

• Evaluations of family drug courts as they affect both child welfare and treatment outcomes.
  Boles, S. M. , Young, N.K., Moore, T., & DiPirro-Beard, S. (2007). The Sacramento Dependency Drug Court: Development and Outcomes. Child Maltreatment. 12 (2).

• An evaluation of a model program for client engagement using substance abuse specialists

• A section of the Child Welfare Redesign report that deals with the importance of substance abuse in child welfare cases

• State legislation establishing a strategic planning process between child welfare and treatment agencies that passed both houses of the legislature and was vetoed by Gov. Davis.
  California AB 2514
  

• Suggestions for achieving a greater impact with Proposition 10 funding for children 0-5 that would address the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure on children
  Gardner, S., & Young, N. (2000). Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs in the Lives of Young Children, in N Halfon, E Shulman, M Shannon and M Hochstein, eds., Building Community Systems for Young Children, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities

• An overview of screening and assessment methods used to identify and serve parents in the child welfare system with substance use disorders

• County strategic plans and policy analysis carried out under contracts from several California counties

• Methods of assessing the need, demand, and capacity for providing substance abuse treatment at the county level as a part of counties’ strategic planning and budgeting

• Products and presentations completed as a part of the contractual role played by CFF from 2005-2008 as the Women, Children, and Families (CalWCF) technical assistance provider to the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.

Additional products related to CFF’s efforts in support of the nine Regional Partnership Grants in California and the two In-depth Technical Assistance projects (statewide and in Orange County) are available at the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare.