Safety Matters- Helping Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders and Domestic Violence from Survivors to Thrivers
Overview
Coming Soon!
September 17, 2020
This Café Conversation explores the core principles and offers practical guidance for supporting families affected by substance use disorders and domestic violence. Addressing these co-occurring issues in an integrated, trauma-informed, and comprehensive manner will allow parents to focus on all domains of recovery so their families can thrive. Viewers will learn how family treatment courts (FTCs) and collaborative teams are working together to meet basic and complex needs of safety, protection, healing, and recovery.
Children and Family Futures (CFF) facilitates a discussion with panelists who share their experiences and expertise in serving families involved in the child welfare system and who are affected by substance use disorders and domestic violence. The Learning Academy is offering numerous technical assistance and training resources on this topic. A Resource Guide and Take Action Guide is provided to equip viewers with resources and important next steps to translate learning into practice.
Panelists/Presenters:
- Tessa Richter, Senior Program Associate, Children and Family Futures
- Honorable Aurora Martinez-Jones, Associate Court Judge and current Board Member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (Travis County, TX)
- Shellie Taggart, Project Director, Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare, Futures Without Violence (Boston, MA)
- Kimberly Shapiro, LICSW, Director, Substance Use Unite, Department of Children and Families (Boston, MA)
- Rhonda Fleming, Director of Education and Outreach at Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Learning Objectives:
1. Highlight key principles and best practice strategies on serving families involved in the child welfare system affected by parental substance use disorder and domestic violence
2. Learn from national and local leaders and teams on how they are successfully addressing the safety and recovery needs of families affected by substance use disorder and domestic violence
3. Identify key next steps for teams so they can establish and strengthen partnerships in their communities to promote the safety and recovery needs of families
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Learning Opportunities
Grantee TTA Projects
OJJDP and CFF currently offer in-depth technical assistance to six Statewide System Improvement Program (SSIP) Awardees: Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, New York, and Guam. Find out more about how these states are implementing systems reform to expand FDCs’ scale and scope—increasing FDCs reach into child welfare and substance use disorder treatment systems and ensuring the delivery of a full range of comprehensive services for families.
In 2016 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funded 12 FDCs. This funding opportunity aligns with the national FDC movement working to increase FDC’s capacity and scope of services to children and families. Of the 12 new OJJDP grantees, six sites were awarded implementation funding to create new FDC programs within their jurisdictions and six were awarded enhancement funding to expand the capacity and augment services among their existing FDC programs. Three tribal sites were awarded implementation funding to help bring Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts to tribal jurisdictions.
