Since the early 1990s, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has promoted family-centered treatment for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders (SUD), including supporting residential treatment models that prioritize family unity by allowing children to reside with their mothers or fathers while they receive treatment.
The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 allows for Title IV-E foster care maintenance payments to be used to support a child residing with a parent in a family-focused residential SUD treatment program. In addition, Section 8081 of the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT Act) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide guidance to states on creating family-focused residential SUD treatment programs that allow children to reside with their parents as they receive treatment.
In anticipation of the HHS guidance, we offer these resources for policymakers and community leaders interested in developing family-centered treatment programs in their communities:
- A 15 minute video that profiles one such residential treatment program, SHIELDS for families, in Southern California
- A report from a 2007 symposium on family-centered SUD treatment sponsored by SAMHSA
- A 2004 case study of the Families in Transitions program created through a SAMHSA pregnant and parenting women (PPW) grant
If you have additional materials we should consider including in this collection, please see our call for submissions page.
Bring Them All: A Family-Centered Approach to Addiction Treatment
Source: Center of Excellence on Behavioral Health for Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Their Families, Addiction Technology and Transfer Center
This 15 minute video describes the family-centered approach to addiction treatment provided by SHIELDS for Families in Southern California. The model allows women and their children and partners to stay together during treatment in a residential setting with all services provided on site.
Family-Centered Treatment for Women with Substance Use Disorders: History, Key Elements and Challenges
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This 2007 report from a symposium on family-centered substance use disorder treatment (SUD) sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) describes options for supporting families during SUD treatment along the continuum of care, including residential treatment programs that allow children to reside with their mothers during treatment.
Residential Treatment for Parents and Their Children: The Village Experience
Source: Valera Jackson
In the 1990s, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provided grants to create family-centered, residential substance use disorder treatment programs that allowed children to reside with their parents. This 2004 case study looks at the Families in Transitions program