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2. SAMHSA/ACYF Partnership • Report to Congress • Stakeholder’s Meeting • Confidentiality Forum • CSAT-ACYF Regional Meetings • National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare

3. THE FIVE CLOCKS • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) • 24 Months Work Participation • 60 Month Lifetime • ADOPTION AND SAFE FAMILIES ACT (ASFA) 12 Months Permanent Plan 15 Months out of 22 in Out of Home Care Must Petition for TPR • RECOVERY One Day at a Time for the Rest of Your Life • CHILD DEVELOPMENT Clock doesn’t stop Moves at Fastest Rate from Prenatal to Age 5 • The Clock that is Ticking on Us

4. NCSACW Implemented Under Contract to the Center for Children and Family Futures We are an Orange County-based policy institute dedicated to improving outcomes for children and families, particularly those affected by alcohol and other drugs and those involved in the welfare and child welfare systems Under the direction of Dr. Nancy Young, we are developing and implementing the NCSACW.

5. NCSACW Mission • To promote practice, organizational, and systems change at the local, state, and national levels • By developing • A comprehensive program of information gathering and dissemination • Specialized knowledge and promoting its application through providing technical assistance         

6. A Consortium Approach CCFF has assembled a consortium of national organizations and leaders to help implement the NCSACW • CWLA – Child Welfare League of America • NASADAD – National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors • NCJFCJ – National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges • APHSA – American Public Human Services Association • NICWA – National Indian Child Welfare Association

7. NCSACW Tasks The are several tasks that will be carried out by the NCSACW through multiple activities and products. The primary tasks include: • Collection and Dissemination of Information; For example: • Conducting a Literature Review • Performing a Need Assessment

8. NCSACW Tasks • Providing Technical Assistance There are several levels of technical assistance to be provided through the NCSACW. These include: • Brief contacts • Materials, questions, referrals • Requires research or expert consult • Statistics, special topic consultant • On Site • Facilitate work group, conference speakers, specialized training • In-Depth • Selection of sites and provision of on-going technical assistance to implement systems, policy and practice changes

9. NCSACW Tasks • Developing materials Materials to be developed by the NCSACW may include: • Technical Assistance Publication • Compendium of training materials and curricula • Tool kit on confidentiality and information exchange protocols • Tool kit on measuring risk to children based on the severity of the substance use disorder

10. NCSACW Tasks • Developing Web-based access to information and tutorials • Web site NCSACW.org – coming soon • Web-based tutorials – audiences may include: • Child welfare workers • Substance abuse counselors • Court and judicial officers • State legislators

11. NCSACW Tasks • Conducting Conferences and Meetings • Three regional meetings per year on specialized topics • National conferences in 2004 and 2006

12. General Approach to In-Depth TA • Based on work conducted for CSAT and published in Technical Assistance Publication #27 • Established a Framework for Defining Areas of Collaboration and Methods to Assess Effectiveness of Collaborative Work

13. Values and Principles Screening and Assessment Engagement and Retention Services to Children Staff Training and Development Development of Cross-System Outcomes Information Systems and Data Sharing Funding and Program Sustainability Working with the Courts Working with Supportive Services Elements of System Linkages

14. Policy Tools • Development of Policy Tools to Facilitate Collaborative Work Across Systems • Collaborative Values Inventory • Collaborative Capacity Instrument • Matrix of Progress in Linking Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services

15. Models of Changed Practice • Workers outstationed in collaborative settings • Increased case management and monitoring of recovery progress • New methods and protocols on sharing information • Increased judicial oversight and family drug treatment courts • New Priorities for treatment access for child welfare-involved families • New safe and sober housing initiatives

16. Thank you for your interest in NCSACW, if you would like to be placed on our e-mail list for updates and information please e-mail us at: ldaly@cffutures.org