Intentional Integration: How to Identify and Support Parents with Co-Occurring Disorders FTCs, like all drug courts, historically focused on treating substance use disorders (SUDs). However, FTCs cannot maintain this singular focus since 45% of adults with an SUD in the general population also live with [...]
Sustained Recovery: Don’t Make Aftercare an Afterthought Recovery is a process, and FTCs are a time-limited acute intervention in a family’s life. FTCs must blend aftercare planning into its program design to best support parents and their children after case closure. Aftercare plans, also [...]
Navigating Risk: Disrupting the Cycle of Substance Use for Children and Adolescents Substance use disorders can have a genetic component but are preventable. For adolescents with adverse childhood experiences, substance use may be a mechanism to cope with trauma or unaddressed socioemotional or mental health [...]
Building Secure Futures: Bonding and Attachment Support for Parents and Their Infants Affected by Substance Use Overview Twenty percent of all child welfare removals in 2020 involved infants under the age of 1. Bonding and attachment in these early months are crucial to the health of [...]
Building Strong Futures: Increasing FTC Capacity and Scale Overview Family treatment courts (FTCs) have improved safety, permanency, well-being, and recovery outcomes for families in the child welfare system associated with parental substance use for over 25 years. Despite these successful outcomes, many FTCs serve a small [...]
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