The Collision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and Substance Abuse: Research-Based Education and Training Priorities for Child Welfare Professionals

Schroeder, Julie; Lemieux, Catherine M.; Pogue, Rene

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“…Within child welfare, such training is not common. Indeed, training in substance use assessment, treatment, and prevention within social work education and child welfare curricula has frequently been absent (Schroeder et al, 2008), despite the high frequency of substance use among child welfare families (Courtney et al, 2004). Case managers have also self-reported a lack of training in the identification of mental health needs among their clients in child welfare (Kerns et al, 2014).…”

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“…Finally, while case managers and foster parents are likely the most proximal to youth and serve as gatekeepers to services, many have not received the requisite training to identify and address substance misuse (Meyers, Kaynak, Clements, Bresani, & White, 2013; Schroeder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008). This lack of knowledge may prevent these important figures from presenting the idea of substance use treatment to young people in a comprehensive and nonjudgmental way.…”

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Feeling Heard and Not Judged: Perspectives on Substance Use Services Among Youth Formerly in Foster Care

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Youth in foster care have limited access to substance use services for a variety of reasons. Attempts to unpack this health disparity have focused on foster care systems, administrators, providers, and foster parents. This study seeks to understand the perspectives of youth themselves, with the hope of understanding their experiences with and preferences for such services. Analyses of focus groups with youth who had recently left foster care suggested concrete and perceptual facilitators/barriers to treatment. Concrete facilitators/barriers included the need for expanding social support, access to multiple service options, and tailored intervention approaches. Perceptual concerns revolved around understanding each individual’s readiness to change, feeling judged by authority figures, and desiring help from people with lived experience. Participants also described novel intervention ideas, including a focus on technology-based approaches. By relying on youth voices, we can improve upon the current state of substance use interventions within foster care.

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“…Service integration strategies that have been recommended at the system level include flexible financing, educational strategies, and increased administrative accountability (Burnam & Watkins, 2006; Schroder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008; Young, Gardner, & Dennis, 1998). Flexible financing is required to overcome the funding “silos” that characterize human service systems at the state level.…”

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Integrated substance abuse and child welfare services for women: A progress review

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Bruni

2011

Children and Youth Services Review

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A review of empirical literature reveals improvements in service utilization and outcomes for women when substance abuse and child welfare services are integrated. The increased use of substances by women involved in the child welfare system has resulted in a call for integrated, coordinated, evidence-based practices. Since the late 1990s, specific system-and service-level strategies have been developed to coordinate and integrate the provision of substance abuse and child welfare services such that women are remaining in treatment longer and are more likely to reduce substance use and be reunited with their children. The strategies reviewed provide useful guidelines for developing components of effective, evidence-based programs for substanceinvolved women in the child welfare system. Keywords integrated services; substance abuse; child welfare; wome Estimates of the percentage of parents involved in the child welfare system with serious substance abuse problems range as high as 50-80% and have resulted in a variety of service models and service system modifications to address the problem of parental substance abuse in child welfare. More than 10 years ago, Young, Gardner, and Dennis (1998) outlined the challenges associated with identifying and meeting the service needs of substance abusing parents in the child welfare system. Aspects of the challenges those authors identified remain, but a growing body of evidence now demonstrates that improvements in child welfare service utilization and outcomes result when substance abuse and child welfare services are integrated within the same service setting. Child welfare service systems have identified strategies at both the systems level and the service delivery levels to integrate services, including collaborative working relationships with substance abuse treatment and child welfare administrators and service providers, child welfare worker training to better identify substance abuse problems, processes to facilitate parents' entry and engagement in substance abuse treatment, and working relationships with family courts

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“…This may be due to poor training (Dore, Doris, & Wright, 1995), ineffective or limited resources or attitudes that interfere with the worker's ''ability to engage clients, to assess situations, and to develop appropriate treatment strategies'' (Tracey & Farkas, 1994, p. 62 (Cash & Berry, 2002;Staudt & Cherry, 2009). Often caseworkers have limited training regarding addictions (Pecora, 1989;Schroeder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008) and, in the event that they suspect a SUD, they are unprepared to intervene. Some research has evaluated ways to improve SUD education for child welfare professionals, but what data do exist suggest that training can positively change participant's knowledge, skills, and practice habits (Schroeder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008).…”

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“…Often caseworkers have limited training regarding addictions (Pecora, 1989;Schroeder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008) and, in the event that they suspect a SUD, they are unprepared to intervene. Some research has evaluated ways to improve SUD education for child welfare professionals, but what data do exist suggest that training can positively change participant's knowledge, skills, and practice habits (Schroeder, Lemieux, & Pogue, 2008). For example, Hohman (1998) identified motivational interviewing as a useful tool for child welfare workers to engage with substance involved parents.…”

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Screening for Substance Use Disorders as a Supplement to Caseworker Assessment Among Foster Care–Involved Families

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Journal of Public Child Welfare

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Parental substance abuse is a major factor in families experiencing foster care placement, yet little is known about the potential of screening in determining risk or identifying subpopulations for which elevated risk occurs. One Midwestern state recently implemented screening. This research uses information gathered as part of the screen's implementation to conduct a latent class analysis. The research was extended to provide a detailed examination of differences in child and family characteristics across classes, and to compare the screen results with caseworker impressions. Three distinct typologies emerged, with the high-risk and moderate-risk designations comprising only one quarter of the cases.

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The Collision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and Substance Abuse: Research-Based Education and Training Priorities for Child Welfare Professionals

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Feeling Heard and Not Judged: Perspectives on Substance Use Services Among Youth Formerly in Foster Care

Feeling Heard and Not Judged: Perspectives on Substance Use Services Among Youth Formerly in Foster Care

Integrated substance abuse and child welfare services for women: A progress review

Screening for Substance Use Disorders as a Supplement to Caseworker Assessment Among Foster Care–Involved Families

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