Family Drug Treatment Courts As Comprehensive Service Models: Cost Considerations

Brook, Jody; Akin, Becci A.; Lloyd, Margaret; Johnson‐Motoyama, Michelle; Yan, Yueqi

doi:10.1111/jfcj.12060

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“…Child welfare opinion leaders have identified evidence‐based behavioural parenting interventions (EBPIs) as a critical strategy for addressing maltreatment and improving child welfare outcomes (Barth et al, ; Horwitz, Chamberlain, Landsverk, & Mullican, ), including for families affected by substance use (Barth, ). Brook and colleagues have also shown that a group‐based EBPI promotes reunification among parents affected by substances with children in foster care (Brook, Akin, Lloyd, Johnson‐Motoyama, & Yan, ; Brook, Akin, Lloyd, & Yan, ; Brook, McDonald, & Yan, ). Despite efforts to expand EBPIs to child welfare, a formidable barrier is parental engagement and service completion as an intervention has little chance of improving outcomes unless families engage in the intervention (Berliner et al, ).…”

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Parent perspectives of engagement in the strengthening families program: An evidence‐based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use

Akin

Johnson‐Motoyama

Davis

et al. 2018

Child & Family Social Work

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Despite growing use of evidence‐based parenting interventions (EBPIs) in child welfare settings, few qualitative studies have obtained parents' direct views and feedback on these programs. Further, engagement in EBPIs continues to present challenges in a child welfare context, particularly for parents affected by substances. We sought to understand parents' experiences of the supports and barriers to engagement in an EBPI. Semistructured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 10 parents who were involved in child welfare and a family drug treatment court, affected by parental substance use, and had recently completed the Strengthening Families Program. Our results indicated that barriers and supports comprised individual, provider, and programmatic factors. A prevalent theme was providers' abilities to build supportive helping relationships and facilitate a dynamic group effectively. Also significant were pragmatic program features that directly assisted families' access and ongoing participation, such as transportation and scheduling.

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Parent perspectives of engagement in the strengthening families program: An evidence‐based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use

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Johnson‐Motoyama

Davis

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Child & Family Social Work

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“…Research has suggested that low levels of household income, institutional racism, and high rates of unemployment place families at disproportionate risk for experiencing family traumas (Merrick et al, 2018). Families who have experienced such traumas have unique needs stemming from their conditions prior to separation, the subsequent absence of family members, and the transitions related to reunification (Brook, Akin, Lloyd, Johnson‐Motoyama, & Yan, 2016). Exposure to adverse childhood experiences such as the aforementioned can have negative additive effects that impact social and emotional functioning across the life span (Larkin, Shields, & Anda, 2012).…”

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“As We Talk About This More, a Box Opens Up”: Family Literacy Programs for Fathers in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder

Wiseman¹,

Atkinson²,

Cryer‐Coupet³

2020

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Parenting while transitioning out of incarceration, homelessness, or drug addiction has received inadequate attention despite the fact that these factors affect more and more of the U.S. population each day. This article is about a family literacy program implemented in a residential treatment facility where the fathers, most of whom were previously incarcerated and now receiving treatment for substance use disorder, have been parenting from afar with limited access to their children. Fathers participated in a family literacy program where they respond to children’s literature with the intention of eventually reading with their children. Our research was guided by the following question: How do fathers who are separated from their children while in a residential treatment program, read and respond to children’s literature in a small‐group setting? Findings reflect how fathers wanted to share their feelings about parenting and also consider their identities as fathers who were also addicts.

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“…In Australia and England, permanent loss of the child at the end of the court process is considered both sufficient incentive and punishment. The principles of problem-solving courts have been articulated (Brook, Akin, Lloyd, Johnson-Motoyama & Yan, 2016;Choi, 2012) that result in special attention to the process as well as the goals.…”

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Tensions and contradictions in family court innovation with high risk parents: The place of family drug treatment courts in contemporary family justice

Harwin

Broadhurst

Cooper

et al. 2019

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Parental substance misuse is a leading factor in child abuse and neglect and frequently results in court-mandated permanent child removal. Family drug treatment courts, which originated in the USA and are only found in adversarial family justice systems, are a radical innovation to tackle this problem. Unlike ordinary court, they treat parents within the court arena as well as adjudicating, and in this way they seek to draw a new balance between parental needs and the child's right to timely permanency. Family drug treatment courts have spread to England, Australia and Northern Ireland and international research has found they have higher rates of parental substance misuse cessation and family reunification and lower foster care costs than ordinary courts. Yet their growth has been far from straightforward. In the USA they have not kept pace with the rise of criminal drug treatment courts and in England and Australia their numbers remain small. The central purpose of this article is to explore why the family drug treatment movement has not achieved wider impact and to consider opportunities and challenges for its future development. To address these questions we draw on evidence and experience from the USA, England and Australia. We discuss the operational challenges, tensions between children's needs for stability and parental timescales for recovery, the 2 impact of wider economic and political change, and issues in data evaluation. We conclude that despite the promise of family drug treatment courts as a new paradigm to address risky parenting, effecting systemic change in the courts is extremely difficult.

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Family Drug Treatment Courts As Comprehensive Service Models: Cost Considerations

Cited by 14 publications

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Parent perspectives of engagement in the strengthening families program: An evidence‐based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use

Parent perspectives of engagement in the strengthening families program: An evidence‐based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use

“As We Talk About This More, a Box Opens Up”: Family Literacy Programs for Fathers in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder

Tensions and contradictions in family court innovation with high risk parents: The place of family drug treatment courts in contemporary family justice

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