Permanency planning and social service systems: A comparison of two families with prenatally substance exposed infants
✍ Scribed by Jean E. Twomey; Rosemary Soave; Linda Gil; Barry M. Lester
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
An innovative program developed to work with families in which substance use during pregnancy leads to Child Protective Services involvement is introduced in this article. The Vulnerable Infants Program of Rhode Island (VIP-RI) was established to facilitate permanency planning for substanceexposed infants by focusing on the interface of social service systems with one another and with the families affected by perinatal substance use. Permanent placement within the time frame mandated by federal legislation places increased pressures on parents and the social service systems designed to provide them with assistance. The Vulnerable Infants Program of Rhode Island promotes collaboration, coordination, and communication among social service systems engaged with families of substance-exposed infants. The Vulnerable Infants Program of Rhode Island works to increase the efficacy of social service systems in order to optimize the resources that are available to a family in their attempts at reunification with their infant. Case examples illustrate the complexities of the families of substance-exposed infants, the breadth of social service systems that become involved with these families, and the vastly different placement outcomes that substance-exposed infants may experience.
RESUMEN: En este estudio se presenta un programa innovador desarrollado para trabajar con familias en las cuales el uso de drogas durante el embarazo lleva al involucramiento de los Servicios de Proteccio ´n al Nin ˜o. El "Programa de Rhode Island para Infantes Vulnerables" (VIP-RI) fue establecido con el fin de facilitar planes permanentes para infantes expuestos al uso de drogas, a trave ´s de la concentracio ´n en la relacio ´n entre los sistemas de servicio social, no so ´lo entre ellos, sino tambie ´n con las familias afectadas por el uso perinatal de drogas y sustancias similares. Una colocacio ´n permanente dentro del tiempo ordenado por las autoridades de la legislacio ´n federal aumento ´las presiones sobre los padres y los sistemas VIP-RI was supported by grants from the RWJ Foundation, Roddy Foundation, Morgan Foundation, and Grant #039729 from The Children's Bureau, and Abandoned Infants Assistance awarded to Barry M. Lester, Ph.D.