We provide training and technical assistance to Tribes, states, counties, and community agencies as they navigate the complexities of funding and sustaining family-centered services. We have over 25 years of experience providing expert consultation, effective tools, and strategies to help sites fund and sustain innovation benefiting families affected by substance use disorders (SUDs).

Sustaining innovative and effective practices over time does not simply rely upon having steady funding streams; it also requires institutionalizing new ways of practice into the very fabric of the process. Cross-system partners, early in the life of a collaborative, should plan for how their innovative practice strategies will permanently influence the way of doing business, thereby reducing systemic barriers for all families and creating lasting systems change.

Communities must ­find ways to serve all families in need by accessing the full range of existing funding resources from multiple agencies serving children and family members affected by parental SUDs and child maltreatment. Agencies include child welfare, substance use and mental health disorder treatment, early childhood education, prenatal and primary health care, home visiting, and other social service programs.

Our decades of experience and expertise has been effective in helping communities develop both inventories of funding streams and the diverse cross-systems partnerships necessary to ensure successful sustainability efforts.