This video highlights the risks of opioids from the perspective of a mother who lost her son to an overdose after he became addiction following an opioid prescription for a sports injury. The video emphasizes that many patients do not understand the risks of opioid addiction. Produced by the National Safety Continue reading
Resource Tag: Children & Families
The Court’s Role in Reshaping the Child Welfare System to Focus on Prevention
Judges and judicial personnel discuss the role of the courts in improving the child welfare system by strengthening families and using trauma informed treatments in the judicial system. This is an hour long recording of a conversation between judges, officials from the Children’s Bureau, and the National Center Continue reading
Behind Prescription Drug Overdose Statistics: Louie Miceli
Louie Miceli started using prescription opioids after a sports injury. In this video, Louie’s mother and friend speak of Louie and how his prescription eventually led to addiction, the use of heroin, and his death from overdose in 2012. Produced by the National Safety Council in 2014. Continue reading
Continuing Care: A Parent’s Guide to Your Teen’s Recovery from Substance Abuse
This Interactive website for parents and caregivers of children and youth with substance use disorder focuses on how to support children and youth after acute treatment in the recovery or continuing care phase. A downloadable PDF version is also available. Continue reading
A New Path: Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing
The website for A New Path, an advocacy group of parents, citizens, individuals in recovery, community leaders and health care professionals working to educate the public, media and policy makers about addiction and expand access to treatment. The group has a focus on reducing the stigma associated with Continue reading
Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model
This website describes the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Medicaid is piloting to improve behavioral health care for children and youth with the goals of improving child outcomes, reducing inpatient hospitalizations and out-of-home placements, and creating alternative funding streams for these services. Continue reading
The Court’s Role in Reshaping the Child Welfare System
This November 30, 2018 webinar from the National Judicial Opioid Task Force focuses on how judges and the judicial system can help reshape the child welfare system in the midst of the opioid epidemic by strengthening families and focusing on prevention. The webinar includes a discussion of the Family First Continue reading
Parent Partner Programs: Promising Practice to Keep Families Struggling with Substance Use Disorder Together
This briefing paper from the National Judicial Opioid Task Force provides an overview of parent partner programs, where parents facing child welfare or dependency proceedings are paired with a peer adviser who helps them understand and navigate the process. Parent partner programs in Washington, Iowa, Continue reading
Trauma, Substance Use, and Justice System-Involved Youth
This briefing paper from the National Judicial Opioid Task Force includes an overview of the concept of trauma and how it affects youth and families involved with the justice system. The paper provides facts about trauma, presents advice for judges on how to avoid retraumatization in the courtroom, and describes 10 Continue reading
Creating a Local or Regional Judicial Opioid Task Force
This guide serves as a resource for judges on how to take a leadership role in their community or region in convening stakeholders to collaborate on solutions to the opioid crisis. Continue reading