New Resources Available From the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare

NCSACW Webinars Now Available on the SAMHSA YouTube Channel

SAMHSA has made available 12 National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) webinars on its YouTube Channel. The free webinars highlight hot topics, including medication-assisted treatment and the treatment of opioid use during pregnancy, and a series on evidence-based practices, trauma-informed care, and building collaborative practice.

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Special Journal Issue: Families in Child Welfare Affected by Substance Use

The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), with NCSACW, released a two-volume special issue, Child Welfare: Families in Child Welfare Affected by Substance Use, with guest editors, Nancy K. Young, Ph.D., and Julie Collins, LCSW. Many advancements in practices have been made since the release of CWLA's 2001 special issue of Child Welfare spotlighting parental substance use disorders among families in child welfare. CWLA and NCSACW have compiled the lessons from those efforts into this two-volume special issue of Child Welfare.

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Free Online Training Available

NCSACW recently launched an updated online tutorial for substance use disorder treatment professionals. This tutorial provides treatment professionals with information on the operations of child welfare and the dependency court; effective engagement strategies and treatment practices for families involved with child welfare systems; services needed by children whose parents have substance use disorders; and methods of improving collaboration among substance use disorder treatment, child welfare, and court systems. The course is designed to highlight key considerations and effective strategies for working with these families to achieve reunification and recovery. This course is free and approved for 4.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

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About NCSACW

The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare is an initiative of HHS and jointly funded by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Children's Bureau's Office on Child Abuse and Neglect.