Figure 5-2: Strategies for Collaboration

Program planning and administration

  • Provide joint training for substance abuse treatment staff and CPS agency workers
  • Develop team staffing approaches
  • Provide joint funding for services
  • Conduct joint goal-setting programs
Case monitoring and ongoing collaborative activities
  • Develop jointly sought treatment goals at a case conference
  • Improve family risk assessments as they relate to substance abuse
  • Adapt monitoring concepts from Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities and referral and monitoring agencies
Joint treatment
  • Use a parenting focus to engage parents in substance abuse treatment programs
  • Integrate child development services with substance abuse treatment
  • Provide families with long-term services that vary over time
  • Involve family members caring for the client's children
Source: Feig, 1998.

From: Chapter 5—Breaking the Cycle: The Substance-Dependent Client as Parent/Caregiver

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Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Child Abuse and Neglect Issues.
Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 36.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
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