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A Collaborative Approach to the Treatment of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder: Practice and Policy Considerations for Child Welfare, Collaborating Medical, and Service Providers

This guide focuses on creating coordinated, multi-system approaches to caring for pregnant women with opioid use disorder and their infants. It focuses on creating coordination between medical providers, addiction treatment and behavioral health providers, social service agencies including Continue reading →

The Children and Recovering Mothers (CHARM) Collaborative in Burlington, Vermont: A Case Study

This 2014 case study describes the Children and Recovery Mothers (CHARM) Collaboration which provides a model for integrated and collaborative care for pregnant women with opioid dependence and their babies. The case study focuses on how the CHARM initiative provides support to families at multiple points of intervention and Continue reading →

MOMSOhio

This is the website for Ohio’s Maternal Opiate Medical Supports (MOMS) collaborative which is working to improve maternal and baby health outcomes by providing obstetrical care and substance use disorder treatment treatment through a maternity care home model of care. The interactive website Continue reading →

Tools for Treatment: Family-Centered Behavioral Health Support for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

This website provides training curricula, treatment provider guidelines and resources for providers and payers offering family-centered behavioral health support for pregnant and postpartum women. The website include a resource library with more than 300 documents, a section for highlighting innovative programs, and information about Continue reading →

Parent Talk Kit – Spanish

This Spanish language guide from Partnership at DrugFree.org provides parents and caregivers with specific advice on how to talk to kids to prevent drug and alcohol misuse. It includes age appropriate scripts for starting conversations, guidance on what to say to teens about prescription drugs, advice on how to address Continue reading →

Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse Online

This is a link to a free continuing education program for mental health clinicians and substance use disorder treatment providers from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The training explores the relationship between adolescent trauma and substance abuse and includes interactive online modules, a webinar, and a 4-part Train the Trainer video series on working with youth and their caregivers.

Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Creating Partnerships between Behavioral Health Providers and Child Welfare

This 2 page information guide explains the importance of collaboration between behavioral health providers including substance use disorder treatment providers and child welfare. The guide from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare provides facts and statistics about the impact of the addiction crisis on child welfare and Continue reading →

Trauma-informed Approaches Need to be Part of a Comprehensive Strategy for Addresing the Opioid Epidemic

A 2017 policy brief from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, this report describes why strategies to address the opioid crisis will only be successful if we understand the connection between trauma and the roots of addiction. The brief also provides examples of effective prevention and treatment programs.

Funding Source: Unknown

Project Nurture

Project Nurture is an innovative treatment model for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder and their infants. An integrated care team provides prenatal, maternity, postpartum, and pediatric care to the women and their infants. This 2018 presentation explains the treatment model and presents brief findings from an evaluation of the program.

Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon

Project Nurture – A New Model of Care that Integrates Maternity Care and Substance Use Treatment

A 2 page overview of Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. This paper provides a brief summary of the Project Nurture evaluations which showed positive outcomes for Project Nurture participants compared to women with substance use disorder provided usual maternity care.