Sustance Abuse

This series provides states and communities with strategies to create cross-system collaborative teams, communication protocols, and practice innovations.

Learn about the Five Points of Family Intervention and how cross-systems may collaborate to guide & support families affected by substance use disorders.

NCSACW is a national resource center offering information, expert consultation, workforce development, and technical support to support professionals in improving safety, permanency, well‑being, and recovery outcomes for children and families.

Tailored to specific disciplines to strengthen cross‑system collaboration and build skills for professionals supporting families facing substance use, co‑occurring disorders, and child welfare involvement.

Our January presenter, Leo Vazquez, showed us this resource from Sesame Workshop, which teaches parents and providers how to have conversations around parental addiction with children.

Resources from the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare help build capacity for child welfare, substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health treatment, and early childhood service providers—as well as other family-serving agencies.

Guiding Good Choices provides information and tools for families to protect preteens and teens from the risks they may encounter as they become more independent.

Parents Empowered is a statewide media and community education campaign with the goal to have every Utah child reach the age of 21 alcohol-free so they can enjoy the benefits of a healthy brain.

Discussion paper from the National Academy of Medicine discussing the need for prevention sciences in substance use and mental health.

Strategies to support communication in families that are impacted by incarceration.

Strategies to support children with incarcerated parents.

The National Association for Children of Addiction has created a resource that details how to help kids and teens in Substance Use Disorder affected families. It provides a variety of resources to learn more about the impacts of substance use disorder in ...

Resources from HeadStart.gov exploring ways to support pregnant women who may have concerns about substance use to have a healthy pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum experience.

General information about substance use in the family unit and how providers can help families who are actively using or in recovery.

This toolkit is intended for pregnant and parenting people who use drugs, their loved ones, and their service providers. Written by The National Harm Reduction Coalition in collaboration with the Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction.

The University of Cincinnati's Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and the Nisonger Center have created a 2-hour online training on introductory information about the impact of the opioid crisis on young children.

Pregnancy resources from the Utah Department of Health's Maternal and Infant Health Program. These resources are for women and families who struggle with substance use and addiction.

The Medical Home Portal is a great place for parents, physicians, and professionals to go for more information and resources on Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS). It explains what NOWS is, symptoms, how to care for a baby with NOWS, and lots of h...

Support, resources, and information for all caregivers of young children prenatally exposed to opioids.

Information, resources, and tips for caregivers of children who have been prenatally exposed to opioids.